IT Automation Developer – Process Automation

Are you excited about Agile and working in an Agile environment?

Are you the type of person who can take a manual process and create an automated process to hand over to a team to run it?

Are you interested in Automating manual infrastructure processes for projects and infrastructure teams? If so, we have an opportunity for you.

There is a great opportunity to collaborate across multiple infrastructure, project and business teams and let your talent and Automation skills shape the process improvements across the organisation.

This team supports a number of system applications such as JIRA, Confluence, Test Rail, TFS, Team City, AppScan, AppDynamics and related technologies used for DevOps.

Specific Accountabilities:

• You will be responsible for delivering robust, automation solutions for the company.
• You will work with cross functional teams including infrastructure, security, networking and project teams. You’re a fast learner and great communicator who can support the IT needs of our European businesses.
• Understand the processes and identify the scope of automation
• Designing and developing workflows to automate by interfacing with external systems.
• Developing and testing automated solutions to meet the requirements.

  Key responsibilities will include, but are not limited to:

• The Test Labs Team is in continuous agile evolution, through the use of automation to deliver and provision infrastructure to all the European lines of business.
• We deliver the server infrastructure and foundational technologies for 12 lines of businesses including windows, Linux and the Microsoft Azure cloud platform.
• Look for opportunities to automate manual processes and implement the solution.
• Our customers come first, and the Test Labs team is at the heart of that promise. We build the technologies that transform the way we think about doing business. Whether working on our on premise systems or cloud systems.
• Deliver robust, automation solutions for improving manual IT processes.
• Complete performance management and personal development plan and track on a regular basis.

There will be an occasional requirement to travel as part of this role to other offices around Europe. There will also be the requirement to work flexible hours. There are occasional requirements for out of hours work for general administration/upgrade activities.

The Person

• The successful candidate should also possess the following skills and knowledge:
• Advanced scripting skills using Powershell or other scripting languages as well as fluency in one or more programming languages and frameworks such as C#, Java, Ruby, Python, PHP, ASP.Net.
• 5+ years in a scripting / programming / devops / automation /development role.
• Strong background in Agile and Scrum methodologies.
• Knowledge of BladeLogic and Orchestration tools.
• Bachelor’s degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related technical field or equivalent, relevant work experience
• Minimum four years in Automation Development or at least four years of programming experience
• Ability to troubleshoot and debug software
• Team worker who works easily with others
• Must be proactive with strong analytical, documentation, and communication skills
• Willingness to learn new skills where required in order to ensure delivery of quality automation solutions