Cloud Orchestration/Automation Engineer

Procom is a leading provider of professional IT services and staffing to businesses and governments in Canada. With revenues over $500 million, the Branham Group has recognized Procom as the 3rd largest professional services firm in Canada and is now the largest “Canadian-Owned” IT staffing/consulting company. Procom’s areas of staffing expertise include: • Application Development • Project Management • Quality Assurance • Business/Systems Analysis • Datawarehouse & Business Intelligence • Infrastructure & Network Services • Risk Management & Compliance • Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery • Security & Privacy Specialties• Contract Staffing (Staff Augmentation) • Permanent Placement (Staff Augmentation) • ICAP (Contractor Payroll) • Flextrack (Vendor Management System) Cloud Orchestration/Automation Engineer On behalf of our client, Procom Services is searching for a Cloud Orchestration/Automation Engineer for a contract opportunity in Dallas, TX. Cloud Orchestration/Automation Engineer  Job Details Qualified candidates will be responsible for developing automation/orchestration within a private cloud environment. The candidate will also work with development teams to integrate with external systems to close the loop on a fully automated dev-to-production release cycle. This position requires a dynamic and enthusiastic individual who enjoys working in fast-paced environments. The ideal candidate works well with independent tactical assignments while collaborating with the broader team to scope to strategic goals. This position is not a direct coder role, rather an operations focus to delivering virtual infrastructure programmatically within a VMWare vRealize Automation framework.  Cloud Orchestration/Automation Engineer Mandatory Skills REQUIRED SKILLS:  • Strong innovative and analytical ability with extensive systems implementation experience  • Must be a team player and have excellent written and oral communication skills  • Must have the ability to operationalize and support what you build  • Must be fully competent to work under general direction on complex projects. The candidate will be delegated direct assignments to deliver.  • May require scheduled and unscheduled off-hours work (on-call duties)  • Strong systems integration and deployment skills  • Expertise experience with scripting languages such as: Powershell, VB, JavaScript, Python, & Linux Shell Scripting  • Strong understanding of error handling, debugging, and conflict resolution  • Established experience with Data Center/Server automation technologies such as VMware vRealize Automation & vRealize Orchestration or similar enterprise solutions  • Understanding of full Virtual Machine lifecycle management from provisioning to decommissioning  The following skills are preferred:  • Experience with VMWare vRealize Automation 7.x + vRealize Orchestrator 6.x+  • Experience with vSphere 5.5 & 6.x Administration  • Experience with distributed automation/orchestration architectures  • Experience with automating/integrating to an API – REST and/or CLI methods, XMLRPC, SOAP, WEBDAV, SSH  • Experience with JSON and/or XML  • AWS EC2 –integration with EC2 API's  • Experience with automating deployments in VMware NSX 6.x  • Experience in a DevOps environment strongly desired  • Demonstrated experience in documenting and articulating complex system designs  • Experience with load balancers such as F5 Big-IP LTM and GTM  • Functional LINUX and Windows Administration skills  • Experience with container technologies – Docker, Docker Swarm, Kurbernetes  • Experience with continuous integration/deployment technologies – Jenkins, TeamCity  • Experience with configuration management technologies – Chef, Puppet, Vagrant, Ansible  • Experience with Cloud Foundry or cloud native apps a plus  • Experience with managing, deploying, or integrating with OpenStack  • Software development experience a plus  • Experience working in an AGILE methodology  EDUCATION:  • BS in Computer Science, Software Engineering, Information Management Systems or a related discipline Cloud Orchestration/Automation Engineer  Start Date ASAP Cloud Orchestration/Automation Engineer  Assignment Length 11+ months All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines. Please send your resume in Word format only.