Automation Engineer - Engineering Productivity Team - Opportunity for Working Remotely

VMware Tanzu is looking for an Automation Engineer interested in joining the Content Platform team for enabling the onboarding of ISVs onto the VMware marketplace. The goal of this team is to build an engine that provides assurances that the software is compliant (security, licensing, etc. ) and will run as intended in the target platforms. Tight feedback loops drive our processes. We value pair programming, retrospectives, continuous integration and working at a sustainable pace. We nurture psychological safety within teams and empower them to drive the changes necessary to obtain successful outcomes. We build software and solve problems collaboratively. Teammates are always accessible to lend a helping hand both remotely and in-person. Mentorship from senior engineering leadership is built into our process. Interested? Here is what we look for in candidates You are passionate about reliability and scalability. You follow devops practices to tackle projects and tasks. You have a proactive approach on root-cause analysis and fixing. You aim to increase infrastructure automation, observability and reliability. You are comfortable with multi-tasking if required by higher priority tasks. You are comfortable with fire-fighting services outages and handling follow up post-mortems. You aim to work in a remote-based team, proactively sharing context. You love to learn and share experience and knowledge with others. You have a proactive approach to document things, for the team and your future-self. Technical skills: Experience with infrastructure-as-code automation (i.e. Terraform, Ansible, Kubernetes manifests and/or templating languages). You understand data structures, can investigate incidents, and differentiate memory, I/O and CPU bottlenecks. Fluency in Linux and TCP/IP networking. Experience with multi-tenant production environments in at least one public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure). Experience running Kubernetes workloads. Proficient knowledge of a scripting language (i.e. Shell, Python, Ruby etc.) and code versioning (e.g. git). Ability to communicate asynchronously with a remotely distributed team. Ability to own projects, working independently towards their completion. Ability to effectively communicate in English, in-written and verbally. Strong troubleshooting and problem solving skills. Experience building CI/CD pipelines, especially when applied to infrastructure testing. Experience with cloud-native monitoring and logging (i.e. Prometheus, Grafana, Fluentd, ElasticSearch). Experience managing Kubernetes infrastructure. Experience designing service stack architectures in cloud environments. Where is this role located? This role is fully remote across Spain, allowing you the flexibility to work from the location you feel most productive and comfortable. If you prefer to work in a VMware office, that can also be set up. What are the benefits and perks of working at VMware? You and your loved ones will be supported with a competitive and comprehensive benefits package. Below are some highlights, or you can view the complete benefits package by visiting www.benefits.vmware.com. Employee Stock Purchase Plan Medical Coverage, Retirement, and Parental Leave Plans for All Family Types Generous Time Off Programs 40 hours of paid time to volunteer in your community Rethink's Neurodiversity program to support parents raising children with learning or behavior challenges, or developmental disabilities Financial contributions to your ongoing development (conference participation, training, course work, etc.) Wellness reimbursement and online fitness and wellbeing Category : Engineering and Technology Subcategory: Software Engineering Experience: Manager and Professional Full Time/ Part Time: Full Time Posted Date: 2022-03-11 VMware Company Overview: At VMware, we believe that software has the power to unlock new opportunities for people and our planet. 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