Infrastructure Core Automation Engineer

ICON plc is a world-leading healthcare intelligence and clinical research organisation. From molecule to medicine, we advance clinical research providing outsourced services to pharmaceutical, biotechnology, medical device and government and public health organisations.

With our patients at the centre of all that we do, we help to accelerate the development of drugs and devices that save lives and improve quality of life.

Our people are our greatest strength, are at the core of our culture, and the driving force behind our success. ICON people have a mission to succeed and a passion that ensures what we do, we do well.

The Role:

Infrastructure Automation Engineer required by global, market leading, award winning organisation.

The successful Infrastructure Automation Engineer will be responsible for developing and automating workflows, by taking existing practices and applying code to improve both efficiency and insight. You will work to the highest level to provide automation and integration to bespoke software solutions through to the underlying infrastructure that is complex in nature

The successful candidate will be working across multiple teams to enhance the user experience and delivery of a suite of bespoke applications and off the shelf software, improving delivery and efficiencies.

Duties will include:

• Developing Dashboard views of Infrastructure estate
• Work closely with the diverse teams to support automation and its implementation
• Collaborate with cross functional teams in the design, development and integration of automation techniques.
• Create new automation solutions and product offerings for infrastructure services.
• Perform analysis and value stream mapping of existing processes for the development of either new or improved automation.
• Document automation standards to be followed by the organisation
• Work closely with other teams across the business to improve efficiency of infrastructure such as service management
• Identify areas of automation

To be successful in the role, you will ideally have:

• A strong, demonstrable background gained within an Infrastructure role (Windows, UNIX, Virtualisation, Networking) either delivery or support.
• Hands-on experience of configuration, deployment and optimization services as well as troubleshooting sophisticated applications at scale.
• Motivation to constantly seek new ways to improve system performance.
• Passionate about seamless uptime and infrastructure resiliency to failures.
• Experience with open source and proprietary cloud and virtualization technologies (Kubernetes, Docker, VMWare, Azure, AWS).
• Development of back-end systems software that improves sustainability and operations.
• Software Development for automation techniques in production environments
• Experience with the following: Infrastructure as Code, CloudFormation, Jenkins, Ansible, Active Directory, ADFS, SAML, SCCM, Microsoft clustering.
• Git repository derivative (BitBucket, GitLab)
• Strong C#/.Net Development experience
• Fluency in at least once scripting language such as Ruby, PowerShell, Python or Java.
• Experience of working within a secure environment
• Experience of containerisation such as Docker

Benefits of Working in ICON:

Our success depends on the knowledge, capabilities and quality of our people. That’s why we are committed to developing our employees in a continuous learning culture – one where we challenge you with engaging work and where every experience adds to your professional development.At ICON, our focus is to provide you with a comprehensive and competitive total reward package that comprises, not only an excellent level of base pay, but also a wide range of variable pay and recognition programs.  In addition, our best in class employee benefits, supportive policies and wellbeing initiatives are tailored to support you and your family at all stages of your career - both now, and into the future.ICON, including subsidiaries, is an equal opportunity and inclusive employer and is committed to providing a workplace free of discrimination and harassment. All qualified applicants will receive equal consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability or protected veteran status.

If, because of a medical condition or disability, you need a reasonable accommodation for any part of the application process, or in order to perform the essential functions of a position, please let us know through the form below.