Software Developer II

Job Summary

Job Description:

Client Connected Living organization is seeking a Software Engineer (Devops) to join our Platform Engineering and Platform Reliability team. This group is responsible for developing tools and platforms that are used by developers across connected living to enhances xFi, Xfinity Home Security and Connected living Automation application and services. We are a team of devops engineers that have a mix of responsibilities to create tools and platform services on one hand and on the other hand provide 24/7 support for the services we develop. Some of the examples of the work we do are:

• Developing an experimentation platform which facilitates feature flagging for applications and services
• Building a multiplatform API Gateway & Service Mesh to create a consistent platform for modern application communication and networking, L7 traffic management and service-to-service encryption
• Building an automated application test framework for E2E feature testing
• Managing an observability platform that provides visibility into system and application metrics and tracing
• Building a log and events ingestion/transformation/delivery platform for all client and backend applications
• Cost optimization of services running in public/private cloud environments; to name a few

As a Software Engineer, you will be a contributor to the team, working on cutting edge technology stacks that impacts and delights millions of client customers.

Requirements

• Broad technical proficiency, with a thirst for knowledge, and a 'can do' attitude
• Ability to manage rapidly shifting priorities and dependencies
• Hands-on technical experience in Linux environments
• Ability and readiness to quickly learn new technologies.
• Should have participated in, and be familiar with, Agile (Scrum) project methodology and practices
• Take high-level design decisions from team and turn them into reality that solves customer issues
• Team player, excellent communication skills and able to successfully articulate technology concepts to both business and technical audience
• Demonstrated ability to quickly understand business requirements, propose reference architectures, and possible technology solutions. Must be capable of presenting options and weigh implementation

Technical Skills

• Solid scripting & development language (e.g., bash, Go, Python, etc.)
• Experience with automation software using Ansible, HashiCorp stack and Python
• Experience with monitoring systems (e.g. Grafana/InfluxDB, Nagios, Datadog, CloudWatch, New Relic etc.)
• Experience building tools for automation (building, testing, releasing, monitoring and alarming)
• Experience with IaaS and PaaS providers such as AWS, OpenStack, VMWare etc.
• Proficient in Linux command Line, system Administration and good hands-on installing software on Linux platforms
• Understanding of containers technologies like Docker, Fargate, ECS or Kubernetes. Hands-on experience with building and running containers on one of these platforms is a plus
• Some networking knowledge (OSI network layers, TCP/IP, Firewalls, traffic shaping, and load balancing)
• Familiarity with continuous integration/deployment processes and tools such as Jenkins, Concourse etc.
• Experience with deploying and operating infrastructure running microservices based platforms

Location

• Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Job Type

• Contract

Salary

• $39 - 49 per hour

Work Hours

• 9am to 5pm

Education

• Bachelors

Responsibilities

• Working with technical partners to understand their roadmaps and identify critical technical capabilities that need adoption
• Collaborating with our technical operations teams to understand and spread innovative technical tools and practices
• Producing technical designs and documentation at varying levels of granularity
• Crafting detailed templates to assist learners in understanding key technical concepts
• Performing code reviews
• Working with Product development teams to assist them in meeting their business goals through accelerated adoption of approved technologies
• Mentoring more junior members of the technical staff
• Building proof-of-concept systems or conducting exploratory experiments with modern technology
• Serving as an ambassador of TPX to the broader technical community, both inside and outside client, via a combination of authorship of technical papers, journal articles, and/or blog posts; and delivering presentations at technical conferences, meetups, user groups, etc.

Qualifications

• Experience level: Experienced
• Minimum 2 years of experience
• Education: Bachelors

Skills

• Java
• Javamiddleware
• Django