IT Automation Engineer
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- Advertiser: Kent Executive Search
- Contact: David Cotton
- Reference: jobsinsurrey/DC/AUTO/ENG
- Unique ID: 417717
- Location: Camberley
- Salary: £40000 - £70000 per annum + Bens
- Job Type: Permanent
- Job Type: Full-Time
- Date: Sunday 29th April 2012
Minimum Experience
- Well-versed with most UNIX commands/utilities.
- Fundamental understanding of a UNIX-based operating system; for example, understands job control, soft and hard links, distinctions between the kernel and the shell.
- A degree in computer science or a related field. Solid work experience can be substituted.
- Familiarity with networked/distributed computing environment concepts; for example, can use the route command, add a workstation to a network, and mount remote file systems.
- Ability to write scripts in some administrative language (Perl, bash, sh, etc.)
- Programming experience in any applicable language.
- Strong interpersonal and communication skills; capable of conveying ideas and applying knowledge to challenging tasks. Open to new ideas and technologies, and wants to learn. Writes basic documentation. Works well in a team.
- Must Have: Linux or Solaris, TCP/IP, DNS, Apache, basic network troubleshooting, shell scripting.
Pluses: Nagios, MySQL, Java, Perl (or PHP), application servers (Tomcat, JBoss, WebLogic, WebSphere, ATG, Resin), Dell Hardware, technical certificates.
Responsibilities: -
- Review systems documentation, monitoring data and trends, corporate knowledge base, and recommend immediate and permanent problem remediation and resolution.
- Work both with administrators and clients through internal ticketing system and telephone reports or teleconferences to identify and understand recurring processes that may require automation. - Collect and compile these recommendations.
- Work with customers to define automated improvements.
- Design and implement automatic processes and problem remediation using proprietary tools based on other team member input or own observations and recommendations.
- Provision and implement custom scripts where applicable (batch, any shell, Perl, PHP).
- Keep track of performance, collect and compile statistical reports.
- Provision and implement configuration changes.
- Troubleshoot process execution problems and work with other team members to correct them.
- Maintain and adjust existing automated solutions to reflect all changes in
client environments.
- Correct environment configurations so that automated remediation tools
could be decommissioned.
- Attend internal QA conferences and make own recommendations on eliminating the “human factor,” as well as getting tasks done in the most effective way possible.
- Respond to trouble tickets via an internal application and/or phone reports.
- Apply new knowledge (through training, mentoring, documented processes) to handle more difficult tasks.
- Plan and document systems, respond to all inquiries of systems to which he/she is responsible.
- Use intelligence, scripting and tools to manage change from development to testing to production environments.
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