Job responsibilities
- Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
- Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
- Serves as a function-wide subject matter expert in one or more areas of focus
- Actively contributes to the engineering community as an advocate of firmwide frameworks, tools, and practices of the Software Development Life Cycle
- Influences peers and project decision-makers to consider the use and application of leading-edge technologies
- Adds to the team culture of diversity, opportunity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, infrastructure automation, testing, and operational stability
- Deep knowledge of cloud infrastructure and multiple cloud technologies with the ability to operate in and migrate/deploy applications across public and private clouds. Knowledge of on-premises and remote Data Center technologies and operations
- Hands on experience in Design, develop and manage Kubernetes platforms across on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments
- Optimize resource utilization and cluster performance for scalability and cost-efficiency
- Advanced in one or more programming language(s) (e.g., Java), scripting languages (e.g., JavaScript,Python)
- Strong understanding of RESTful and SOAP web services
- Solid grasp of security protocols and best practices for API authentication and authorization
- Experience in deploying and using telemetry tools for infrastructure monitoring, optimization and improving reliability
- Experience with automation and orchestration platforms like Ansible, Terraform, Puppet for automating configuration management and deployment processes
- Strong communication, collaboration, and problem-solving skills
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Design, develop and maintain API platforms to enable communication between diverse software applications
- Experience with API Management tools (e.g., Apigee, KONG, Envoy, AWS API Gateway, Azure API Management)
- Knowledge of API lifecycle management and documentation standards (Swagger/OpenAPI)
- Troubleshoot and resolve API-related infrastructure, solving for resiliency, high-availability and scaling.