Global Senior Automation Engineer

Job Description | Senior Automation Engineer - IDS | Chennai

Be part of the solution at Technip Energies and embark on a one-of-a-kind journey. You will be helping to develop cutting-edge solutions to solve real-world energy problems.

We are currently seeking a Senior Automation Engineer - IDS to join our Chennai Team, and this position will be directly reporting to Global Technical Datacenter Manager.

About us:

Technip Energies is a global technology and engineering powerhouse. With leadership positions in LNG, hydrogen, ethylene, sustainable chemistry, and CO2 management, we are contributing to the development of critical markets such as energy, energy derivatives, decarbonization, and circularity. Our complementary business segments, Technology, Products and Services (TPS) and Project Delivery, turn innovation into scalable and industrial reality.

Through collaboration and excellence in execution, our 17,000+ employees across 34 countries are fully committed to bridging prosperity with sustainability for a world designed to last.

About the mission we offer you:

• The Global Senior Automation Engineer is responsible for overseeing all aspects of the automation of the On-premises datacenters, aiming at making the On-premises services consumable as a Service.
• This role includes designing and implementing the automation of the On-premises service catalog, based on Infrastructure as Code, configuration management, etc…
• He / She will be part of a Platform team mixing up diverse skills to cover all aspects of Datacenter building.
• He / She will take an active “hands on” role in building the automation by consuming the services of the Tooling Platform (Terraform, Ansible…) and scripting.
• He / She will be responsible for handing over the Run of the automated processes to the Operations Teams.

Qualifications / Skills:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field with 7+ years of experience.
• Experience in automating complex end-to-end infrastructure processes, including a complete ecosystem: compute, storage, network, monitoring.
• Expert in Terraform, CICD (ideally Azure DevOps), Ansible
• Very good knowledge of infrastructure (hardware, virtualization, system, storage, network, security, monitoring, databases)
• Very good knowledge in Powershell, Python and C#
• Knowledge on VMware & OLKVM technologies
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively with multiple stakeholders
• Experience with and appetite for working in an international context
• Fluent English, technical and conversational
• (Nice-to-Have) Relevant certifications (e.g., Terraform Associate, Azure Devops, Ansible, VMware)

About you:

We love to hear from you and how you match with this position. To be successful in this mission you should consider the following requirements:

Key Responsibilities:

• Design and develop end-to-end automation workflows and scripts to support on-premises infrastructure as a service.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to define, integrate, and automate platform services.
• Adapt the platform services catalog to consider the automated parts
• Perform and validate the automation processes during the transition to Operations Teams.
• Hand over the Run of the automated processes to Operations
• Report on the progress of the automation ratio to the Datacenters Platform Owner
• Continuously improve automation practices by adopting industry best practices and tools.

Your career with us 

Working at Technip Energies is an inspiring journey, filled with groundbreaking projects and dynamic collaborations. Surrounded by diverse and talented individuals, you will feel welcomed, respected, and engaged. Enjoy a safe, caring environment where you can spark new ideas, reimagine the future, and lead change. As your career grows, you will benefit from learning opportunities at T.EN University, such as The Future Ready Program, Graduate Program, and from the support of your manager through check-in moments like the Mid-Year Development Review, fostering continuous growth and development.

 What’s Next?

Once receiving your system application, our recruiting team will screen and match your skills, experience, and potential team fit against the role requirements. We ask for your patience as the team completes the volume of applications with reasonable timeframe. Check your application progress periodically via personal account from created candidate profile during your application. 

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