Automation Engineer

Fort Worth, TX company is seeking a Automation Engineer to join their team for a contract opportunity.

Leverage the latest technology to solve business problems in a collaborative environment at this Fortune 500 transportation giant. Top technical resources are retained on long-term contract engagements.
Responsible for leveraging cutting edge technology to solve business problems by participating in all phases of the development process from inception through transition, advocating the agile process and test-driven development, using object-oriented development tools to analyze, model, design, construct and test reusable objects, and making the codebase better.

Contract Duration: 6 Months

Required Skills & Experience

• HashiCorp Vault/ AWS Secrets Management/ Azure Key Vault experience
• 5 to 7 years of full Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) experience designing, developing, and implementing large-scale applications (front-end and back-end development)
• 5+ years with Python and proficiency with FastAPI
• 5+ years with Restful web services

Desired Skills & Experience

• 5+ years with React, TypeScript, JavaScript
• Proficiency in object-oriented design techniques and principles?
• 3+ years with Terraform and Vault
• 3+ years of professional, design, and open-source experience?
• 3+ years with git and GitHub
• 3+ years of working in Windows and Linux operating systems (cloud, midrange, distributed), including shell scripting
• Proficient w/ database and persistence frameworks: PostgreSQL, Object/Relational Mapping, Query performance tuning?
• Proficient with Cloud platform such as Azure

What You Will Be Doing

• Writes, tests, and documents technical work products (e.g., code, scripts, processes) according to organizational standards and practices
• Devotes time to raising the quality and craftsmanship of products and systems
• Conducts root cause analysis to identify domain level problems and prescribes action items to mitigate
• Designs self-contained systems within a team's domain, and leads implementations of significant capabilities in existing systems
• Coaches team members in the execution of techniques to improve reliability, resiliency, security, and performance
• Decomposes intricate and interconnected designs into implementations that can be effectively built and maintained by less experienced engineers
• Anticipates trouble areas in systems under development and guides the team in instrumentation practices to ensure observability and supportability
• Defines test suites and instrumentation that ensures targets for latency and availability are being consistently met in production
• Leads through example by prioritizing the closure of open vulnerabilities
• Evaluates potential attack surfaces in systems under development, identifies best practices to mitigate, and guides teams in their implementation
• Leads team in the identification of small batches of work to delivery the highest value quickly
• Ensures reuse is a first class consideration in all team implementations and is a passionate advocate for broad reusability
• Formally mentors teammates and helps guide them to and along needed learning journeys
• Observes their environment and identifies opportunities for introducing new approaches to problems