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Lab Automation Engineer

Location: Santa Clara, CA
Posted On: 04/10/2024
Requirement Code: 67755
Requirement Detail

Duties: You will provide proficiency in creating, sustaining, testing and supporting new tools and automation that will support a global support organization.

You must be self-motivated, articulate and organized and ready to work within a small close-knit team, able to collaborate with other team members all over the globe to help meet the needs of the entire organization. 

The work that is created will need to show value to the organization, using provable metrics that can be articulated to leadership on a weekly basis. 

You have a talent for finding and resolving issues before they become larger problems. 

Prefer candidates with experience in a support or engineering network lab environment.  Experience with the Velocity lab automation platform is a plus.

 

Your Impact

Implementation and management of Lab Automation utilizing Spirent Velocity platform/framework using Python 3.6 and higher.

Build Virtual machines in VMware ESXi environment using tools like Ansible.

Maintain and expand back-end REST api calls using FastAPI and PonyORM.

Training and assisting users with lab systems, tools and processes.

Building software libraries that interact with many common engineering/IT services such as LDAP/Active Directory, JIRA, GCP, AWS, GMail suite, DNS, Salesforce. ServicesNOW, VMware SDK, and others.

Ability to develop tools within a virtual environment as well as within a task queue system such as Celery and RabbitMQ.

Managing code using git and the repository GitLab as well as complying with security concerns when managing a company's proprietary intellectual property.

UI/UX and CLI development that allows for control and reporting of new and existing tools using both backend API's as well as SSO authentication.

Interaction with Docker containers, GCP, Kubernetes, and AWS and other cloud systems to deploy and maintain back end services.

Experience with both a waterfall and agile development environment for developing, sustaining, testing, and supporting new and existing services.

Must be willing to create functional specifications and documentation for new features and tools as they are developed.

 

Skills: Your Experience

Knowledge of UI/UX development and frameworks for use in developing tools to interface with VMware, Windows, and Unix systems.

Talent for finding and resolving issues before they become larger problems.

Experience managing CENTOS, Ubuntu, or other Linux distributions Windows and VMware administration experience is a plus.

Docker, Kubernetes, GCP, AWS and Azure cloud deployments and tools.

Scripting and automation skills, emphasis on Python 2.7  and Python 3.6+

Knowledge of common network protocols such as TCP/IP, UDP, Dynamic Routing Protocols, VLAN,SSH/SCP/SFTP, iSCSI, DNS, NFS, LDAP, SIFS, SMTP, SNMP

Prefer candidates with experience in a support or engineering network lab environment.

Experience with Spirent Velocity lab automation platform a plus

Experience with TCP Replay, IXIA, Breaking Point, Spirent Test Center, and Spirent Avalanche a plus

 

Education:

BS Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or equivalent work experience

5-10 years' experience working as a tools and automation software engineer.