DevOps API Engineer

W2 Only

Local to MO highly preferred

Job Description:

• As an Engineer 2, candidates will be responsible for using your technical knowledge of professional concepts to solve business problems.
• Client is looking for a talented individual that can serve as a subject matter expert in their area of focus and represent their department on complex assignments.
• Candidates will be responsible for evaluating elements of technology’s effectiveness through requirements gathering, testing, research, and investigation. Including making recommendations for improvements that result in increased quality and effectiveness.
• Candidates will work with technical leadership to design, develop and modify the technology stack that is in use.
• Candidates will collaborate with other engineers and architects to provide design recommendations for implementing solutions.
• Candidates will be responsible for ensuring your tasks are completed and deadlines are met.
• Candidates will also be required to meet key performance metrics to ensure compliance of established standards, processes, and procedures.
• The ideal candidate will be an excellent communicator, self-driven and possess the ability to operate independently.
• The candidate will lead the implementation of solutions and tools to support DevOps efforts for client’s APIs.
• Candidates will work with API solution development teams in a fast paced, dynamic environment and will exercise and grow your skills related to continuous integration and continuous delivery.
• Candidates will have the opportunity to learn and implement new technologies and will be responsible for identifying and implementing changes that maximize the efficiency of the team in delivering solutions.
• Additionally, this role will require experience in code build pipelines, deployment pipelines, networking, infrastructure as code and a cloud provider (AWS, Google Cloud, Microsoft Azure).

Objectives of this role:

• Building and implementing new development tools and infrastructure meet requirements and architectural direction.
• Understanding the needs of stakeholders and able to identify necessary steps to a solution and move an initiative to the goals.
• Working on ways to automate and improve development and release processes.
• Code and successfully perform unit and integration testing of software to ensure proper and efficient execution, as well as compliance to the business and technical requirements.
• Resolve problems that arise with future production applications in a timely manner to ensure the efficient and proper functioning of application components.
• Work with Managers and team members to meet development standards
• Build and maintain code pipelines (Github Actions) via Groovy and Python coding languages.
• Be able to resolve any continuous integration and continuous deployment issues by reviewing logs and other metrics.
• Testing and examining code written by others and analyzing results
• Support multiple API versions, failover, blue/green deployments, and resiliency (high availability).
• Knowledge of AWS services (Elastic Beanstalk, ALB, ELB, Autoscale, Cloudwatch, Redis Elasticache, Code Build, Code Deploy, Lambda, etc)
• Understand how to interface with other APIs (Artifactory, Confluence, JIRA, Github Actions, ServiceNow, Github, Sonarqube, Blackduck, Whitehat etc).
• Write and maintain code in any scripting language (Bash, Python, Groovy, etc…) to interact with these APIs.
• Be able to write Terraform scripts and review Terraform logs.

Requirements:

• Must be committed to incorporating security into all decisions and daily job responsibilities.
• 3 plus years of related experience in DevOps
• 2 plus years of experience with cloud automation
• Strong communication skills including the ability to effectively communicate with people of varying technical knowledge.
• Strong troubleshooting skills. Able to resolve issues and support configuration issues for developers independently.
• Experience with Agile development methodologies and tools such as Scrum, JIRA, and Confluence.
• Experience working within the Systems Development Lifecycle (SDLC)
• Experience working in Amazon Web Services (AWS) or similar cloud products
• Experience with scripting languages such as Bash, Shell, Groovy (Java), and/or Python
• Experience with Object Oriented programing language and concepts such as Java.
• Experience with API Gateway such as Kong.
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, Github, Maven/Gradle, Github Actions.
• Experience working with configuration management tools, such as Terraform, Chef, or other similar technologies (e.g. Puppet, Ansible)
• Experience working with AWS Lambda to build and run applications without managing servers.
• Experience with software design methodologies, information systems architecture, object-oriented design, and software design patterns.
• Experience working with SQL to query, manage, and analyze data in databases.
• Excellent communication skills
• Able to formalize proposals, communicate the need and instruct others on the use of solutions.
• Ability to quickly triage problems, determine root cause and drive resolution.
• Must have the ability to effectively collaborate and work with others in a remote work environment.
• Must demonstrate the ability to be flexible with changing priorities and requirements

Preferred:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Information Systems, Management Information Systems, or related field.
• Experience working with Amazon API Gateway to build and manage application connections.
• Familiarity with AWS SAM for developing and deploying cloud-based applications.
• Basic knowledge of Snowflake Data Cloud for storing and analyzing data.
• Understanding of how enterprise data warehouses are used to organize and manage large sets of data.
• Exposure to tools like Quarkus for building modern, cloud-based applications.
• Experience in developing/engineering applications for a large company
• Knowledge of Atlassian products (JIRA/Confluence/Github) and ServiceNow
• Understanding of how to develop reusable code and clean code
• Knowledge of performance tuning when it comes to cloud computing
• General knowledge of networking/load balancing/high availability concepts utilizing API Gateways
• Knowledge of the general digital landscape, architectures, trends, and emerging technologies when it comes to DevOps.
• Use of Containers (Docker) with orchestration like Kubernetes
• Experience with Microsoft Office desktop application (Word, Excel, etc.) and Visio.