Automation Engineer
Posted 3 days ago by NP Group
£401 Per day
Inside
Undetermined
Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom
Summary: The Automation Engineer role focuses on enhancing the client's data protection environment through automation, monitoring, and alerting capabilities. The position requires collaboration with internal teams to identify gaps and improve system reliability. The ideal candidate should possess strong automation and monitoring tool experience, along with excellent communication skills. Familiarity with backup or storage systems is advantageous but not mandatory.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build automation, monitoring, and alerting capabilities to improve system reliability.
- Collaborate with internal teams to identify gaps and streamline processes.
- Create automated solutions and improve observability and alerts.
- Work closely with operations teams to understand challenges and deliver improvements.
Key Skills:
- Ability to clarify and break down unclear requirements.
- Strong Python development skills; familiarity with Perl and/or PowerShell is a bonus.
- Experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins).
- Hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Cortex.
- Proficiency with Ansible.
- Strong understanding of REST APIs.
- Excellent problem-solving skills.
- Strong analytical thinking and sound judgement.
- Effective communication and collaboration with stakeholders.
- Solid organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities.
Salary (Rate): £450.00/daily
City: Glasgow
Country: United Kingdom
Working Arrangements: undetermined
IR35 Status: inside IR35
Seniority Level: undetermined
Industry: IT
Contract: Automation Engineer
Start Date: ASAP
Duration: 12 months
Location: Glasgow
Rate: £400 - £450 per day inside of IR35
Reference: 20130
We are looking for an Automation and Observability Engineer to help strengthen or client's data protection environment. The role focuses on building automation, monitoring, and alerting capabilities that improve system reliability and speed up issue resolution. You will collaborate with various internal teams to identify gaps, streamline processes, and enhance visibility into the platform. This may involve creating automated solutions, improving observability, refining alerts, or a mix of all three. Close partnership with operations teams will be essential to understand challenges and deliver practical improvements.
The ideal candidate is experienced with modern automation and monitoring tools, comfortable navigating both new and legacy systems, and capable of translating unclear requirements into actionable work. Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively across a global team are important. Experience with backup or storage systems is helpful but not required.
Required Skills
Ability to clarify and break down unclear requirements
Strong Python development skills; familiarity with Perl and/or PowerShell is a bonus
Experience with Git and CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Jenkins)
Hands-on experience with Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, and Cortex
Proficiency with Ansible
Strong understanding of REST APIs
Excellent problem-solving skills, including the ability to dig into complex or poorly documented issues
Strong analytical thinking and sound judgement
Effective communication and collaboration with technical and non-technical stakeholders
Solid organizational skills and ability to manage multiple priorities
Desirable Skills
Experience with data protection or backup tools (e.g., Veritas NetBackup)
Knowledge of data deduplication concepts
Background in UNIX or Windows Server administration
Familiarity with storage technologies such as SAN, NAS, or S3
Experience with Kubernetes or OpenShift
Perl experience
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