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About the role
- As a Software Engineer, you will be working as part of a DevOps team focusing on analyzing, developing, testing, and supporting Big Data applications.
- Your primary objective is to ensure project goals are achieved and are aligned with business objectives. You will also work closely with your Scrum team and program team to test, develop, refine and implement quality software in production via standard Agile methodologies
Responsibilities
- Hands on developer to design, code, and test iteratively to support complex big data applications deployed on Cloud Infrastructure (AWS).
- Plan, develop, execute and maintain automated unit, functional test cases; develop modular, robust, and maintainable automation scripts to integrate with CICD process.
- Must have strong analytical and technical skills with passion to deep dive on data in troubleshooting, devise techniques for problem resolution.
- Support product owner in defining future stories and tech lead in defining technical requirements for new initiatives
- Build platform reusable code and components that could be used by multiple project teams.
- Promote a culture of best practices with peer code reviews and extreme ownership for continuous incremental delivery.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to align development objectives with broader business goals
Key skills
- 4+ years of hands-on software development with a bachelor’s degree in computer science, engineering
- Must have strong cloud Implementation expertise in cloud architecture.
- Must have very good knowledge of storage, network, AWS(Compute services). Have sound knowledge in multi-zone, region-based designs.
- Must have the ability to provide solutions utilizing best practices for resilience, scalability, cloud optimization and security.
- Technical Skills
- Extensive programming experience and desire to write and review code 70% of the time.
- Experience in software development using programming languages & tools/services: Java(advanced), Python (intermediate) and strong SQL programming (advanced).
- Experience in big data processing tools/languages using Spark. (passionate about working with data)
- Experience with job orchestration tools: Apache Airflow or similar tools.
- Strong knowledge on Unix/Linux OS, commands, shell scripting, python, JSON, YAML.
- Agile scrum experience in application development is required.
- Experience with cloud technologies: EC2, EKS, S3 storage, Lambda, Relational Database Service, Simple Notification Service (SNS), Elasticache, etc.
- Demonstrates knowledge of CI/CD processes, testing frameworks, practices and tools (Jenkins, jUnit, Terraform, JFrog, Jacoco, SonarQube, etc.)
- AWS Certification is a plus.
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