Cloud Engineer

Job Summary

Creates, modifies, and maintains software applications individually or as part of a team.  Provides technical leadership on a team, including training and mentoring of other team members.  Provides technology and architecture direction for the team, department, and organization.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Develops software applications and supporting infrastructure using established coding standards and methodologies

Sets example for software quality through multiple levels of automated tests, including but not limited to unit, API, End to End, and load.

Self-starter and self-organized - able to work without supervision

Develops tooling, test harnesses and innovative solutions to understand and monitor the quality of the product

Develops infrastructure as code to reliably deploy applications on demand or through automation

Understands cloud managed services and builds scalable and secure applications using them

Creates proof of concepts for new ideas that answer key questions of feasibility, desirability, and viability

Work with other technical leaders to establish coding standards, development best practices and technology direction

Performs thorough code reviews that promote better understanding throughout the team

Work with architects, designers, business analysts and others to design and implement high quality software solutions

Builds intuitive user interfaces with the end user persona in mind using front end frameworks and styling

Assist product owners in backlog grooming, story breakdown and story estimation

Collaborate and communicate effectively with team members and other stakeholders throughout the organization

Document software changes for use by other engineers, quality assurance and documentation specialists

Master the technologies, languages, and practices used by the team and project assigned

Train others in the technologies, languages, and practices used by the team

Trouble shoot, instrument and debug existing software resolving root causes of defective behavior

Guide the team in setting up the infrastructure in the cloud.

Setup the security protocols for the cloud infrastructure

Works with the team in setting up the data hub in the cloud

Create dashboards for the visibility of the various interactions between the cloud services

Other duties as assigned

Experience

Education

BA/BS in Computer Science, a related field or equivalent work experience

Minimum Qualifications

Mastered advanced programming concepts, including object oriented programming

Mastered technologies and tools utilized by team and project assigned

Able to train others on general programming concepts and specific technologies

Minimum 8 years’ experience developing software applications

Skills/Knowledge

Must be expert in advanced programming skills and database technology

Must be expert in at least one technology and/or language and proficient in multiple technologies and languages:

(Specific languages needed will vary based on development department or project)

.Net Core, C#, Java, SQL, JavaScript, Typescript, Python

Additional desired skills:

Single-Page Applications, Angular (v9), Ivy, RXJS, NGRX, HTML5, CSS/SASS, Web Components, Atomic Design

Test First approach, Test Driven Development (TDD), Automated testing (Protractor, Jasmine), Newman Postman, artillery.io

Microservices, Terraform, Jenkins, Jupyter Notebook, Docker, NPM, Yarn, Nuget, NodeJS, Git/Gerrit, LaunchDarkly

Amazon Web Services (AWS), Lambda, S3, Cognito, Step Functions, SQS, IAM, Cloudwatch, Elasticache

Database Design, Optimization, Replication, Partitioning/Sharding, NoSQL, PostgreSQL, MongoDB, DynamoDB, Elastic Search, PySpark, Kafka

Agile, Scrum, Kanban, DevSecOps

Strong problem-solving skills

Outstanding communications and interpersonal skills

Strong organizational skills and ability to multi-task

Ability to track software issues to successful resolution

Ability to work in a collaborative fast paced environment

Setting up complex AWS data storage hub

Well versed in setting up infrastructure security in the interactions between the planned components

Experienced in setting up dashboards for analyzing the various operations in the AWS infra setup.

Ability to learn new development language quickly and apply that knowledge effectively