CNA Search Looking for Automation Engineer at Atlanta, GA Full Time

CNA Search is Seeking a Talented Automation Engineer for a Full Time Opportunity. Please NO (C2C).

This is a senior level IT position for someone who has demonstrable IT knowledge and significant experience.  The primary role of the engineer is to translate business to technology and technology to business, and must, therefore, have strong communication as well as analytical skills.  He or she must have a passion for learning about technology and business, a natural inclination to engage and take ownership of issues, and an ability to talk both business and technical.  A successful Engineer will be able to take complex problems and break them down into smaller pieces, consider the big picture as well as the details, and take input from a multitude of directions to paint a broad picture.

The Automation Engineer is responsible for working with multiple teams within the organization to identify, develop, and deploy automation to increase the efficiency and efficacy of resources, and providing senior level operational support to administrators.  The engineer will research and develop tools, scripts, and systems to support the automation goals, and will assist in troubleshooting those systems in the development, test, and production environments.

Essential Duties: 

• Performs advanced troubleshooting of all applications, systems, networks, etc.
• Understand IT Best Practices and Standards
• Using designs and specifications developed by architects, builds materials list, configurations, etc. to build configurations for and implement new services or improve existing services
• Identifies and develops new policies and procedures in coordination with Architect
• Implements new services in accordance design and specifications
• Assist with needs analysis, taking lead role where required
• Assist architects with design of new services.
• Mentors and at time directs activities of less experienced Automation Engineers and junior team members.
• Provides 24/7 after-hours technical escalation as needed.
• Implement, maintain, and improve Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery environments
• Build automation including creating builds to be used for deploying to multiple servers
• Identifying file structures required for building projects, creating build definitions, and deploying projects to multiple environments
• Ongoing build and release environment planning, maintenance, and optimization
• Create release definitions allowing for customizable configuration depending on the environment. Work closely with development to ensure that any application required configuration is accounted for and represented in the release management process
• Deployments of applications to Development, QA, and Production servers
• Coordinate database updates as part of the release management process
• Collaborate with all teams to ensure effective continuous integration and delivery
• Develop and maintain applications that support automated and manual testing
• Develop and maintain test cases part of release management
• Monitor performance, collect test data and analyze the results. Communicate potential issues back to the development team.
• Proactively seek opportunities to implement improvements in the development process and deployment pipeline.
• Other duties as assigned.