Automation Engineer - GOlang - Contract

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World Wide Technology (WWT) is a global technology integrator and supply chain solutions provider. Through our culture of innovation, we inspire, build, and deliver business results, from idea to outcome. Since 2013 WWT has expanded their US business to Europe with the opening of Sales Office in the heart of London, the build out of a state-of-the-art European Integration Center (EIC) in Amsterdam, and establishment of an Operations Team at Schiphol. There are over 200 full time employees in EMEA today, a large additional contract team, and the organization is growing rapidly. The EMEA region won accolades for the company culture

placing in the Great Place to Work recognition program for 2017 and 2018. The EMEA region won accolades for the company culture

placing in the Great Place to Work recognition program for 2017 and 2018. World Wide Technology EMEA. has an opportunity available for an Automation Developer to support our client, a leading Global Financial Services provider whose competence center is located in the

United Kingdom . Please see role details below: Scope: Contribute to the architectural definition of automation frameworks and workflows for the purposes of flexible and consistent policy deployment on a global scale firewall footprint. Development of reusable infrastructure automation patterns and augment them for a holistic automation approach to firewall policy deployment. Serve as an SME to technical network and security engineering teams on topics related to building automation solutions and how to best integrate them into existing product APIs. Responsible for assisting in the definition and build of self-service capabilities for policy deployment. Develop automation logic to achieve desired business outcomes from a technical, compliance and security perspective. Skills required: Understanding of Site Reliability Engineering

or

Platform Engineering

concepts. Strong programming ability in Golang. Solid understanding of

DevOps

principles and patterns alongside strong CI/CD pipeline delivery Cloud Automation and Orchestration with

IaC

principles leveraging platforms and tools like

Ansible , Terraform, CloudFormation or similar. Experience in the consumption of of Restful APIs, API Gateway integrations and relevant API Specifications for creation, deletion and update of desired API endpoints. Automations skills across

Jenkins , GitHub, Gitlab CI/CD Pipelines, Ansible, Terraform, etc. Experience in Network, Load Balancer and especially

Firewall

automation projects in architecture and engineering roles. Experience with Checkpoint technologies would be advantageous. Awareness of low code platforms to augment infrastructure workflow development. Awareness of building automation capabilities into an organization in the form of intent definitions or self-service platforms. Candidates will be required to go through background checks before commencing contract. Must be an EU Citizen. Some occasional travel maybe required. Only successful candidates will be contacted. EQUAL OPPORTUNITIES World Wide Technology is committed to equal opportunities and actively seeks applications from all sectors of the community irrespective of sex, race, colour, nationality, ethnic or national origin, disability, marital status, sexual orientation, having responsibility for dependents, age, religion/beliefs, or any other reason which cannot be shown to be justified.

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Location:
United Kingdom
Job Type:
FullTime
Category:
IT