Contract, Outside IR35, rate to be advised, PowerShell Automation Engineer, 18 months on site in Corsham.
Current SC clearance required or one used within the past 12 months.
The Software Integration Engineering Service will support the technical team responsible for onboarding of customer applications and implementing infrastructure automation components which form part of the new Platform. These automation components will primarily be developed using Windows PowerShell and will focus on Windows Server components including its various features and services, Windows software products, platform customer specific applications running under Windows, SDDC (Software Defined Data Center) tools such as VMware PowerCLI and VMware PowerNSX,
as well as interactions with external REST APIs and services. This work will also entail working with other teams to troubleshoot and diagnose technical issues. The detailed responsibilities of the team include:
• Apply complex problem solving to “reverse engineer” applications, designs and manual build instructions to create zero touch automation packages that are parameterised, dynamic and able to repeatedly and reliably deploy against these designs. Often these applications are legacy, were created without automation in mind or are otherwise resistive to full, zero touch automation.
• Create production quality code, following industry standard best practices as well as internal policies and procedures, utilising Version Control mechanisms such as GIT and BitBucket to submit development code as well as peer reviewing other team members code modules.
• Production and review of all levels of design artefacts.
• Supporting wider new platform system testing activities.
• Working with Service Management to resolve issues.
Essential skills, qualifications, and experience;
In order to deliver this service, it is essential that individuals have:
• At least 12 months’ demonstrable hands on experience within the last 3 years of:
o Creating complex PowerShell automation modules for production systems utilising at least PowerShell v4 as a minimum.
o Designing solutions to meet ‘bare metal’ or ‘zero touch’ provisioning requirements.
o Automated deployment of server, network or storage technologies across multiple vendors. o Building or supporting large Windows infrastructure environments.
o Working as part of an Agile development team.
• Demonstrable experience of:
o Deployment of complex applications, including Solarwinds, Splunk, VMware Horizon and VEEAM.
o Advanced PowerShell coding features e.g. Workflows, Desired State Configuration (DSC) and Bare Metal Deployment.
o Test driven development using tools such as Jenkins.
To apply, please submit your CV by clicking on the relevant links. If successful you will be contacted by one of our consultants within 3 working days. Unfortunately, due to the volume of applications we expect to receive for this role, if you do not hear from us within this time you should presume your application has been unsuccessful on this occasion.
Grassroots Recruitment is acting as a recruitment agency and a recruitment business in respect of this vacancy. Grassroots Recruitment is an equal opportunities employer and recruiter. We welcome applications from all sections of the community, regardless of age, race, sex, sexual orientation, marital status, religion or disability.
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