Software Engineer, Cloud & Platform at Vistra Corporate Services Company in Irving, Texas

Job Description:

If you have what it takes to become part of the Vistra family and would like to start a promising career with a global leader, take a look at the exciting employment opportunities that are currently available and apply online.

Job Summary

The Developer V will be responsible for supporting multiple platforms, working bug fixes, and partnering with senior developers to ensure the timeliness, quality, and accuracy of the data and platforms. They will also be responsible for helping to document and improve processes, perform support activities for Technology Services, and engage technology and business users for ideas to improve the user experience.

Job Description

Key Accountabilities

•Help drive the maintenance of systems, creation of technical designs, development and deployment of front-end and/or back-end systems, integration of the data warehouse with enterprise applications, and/or implementation of user access controls and data security measures, where appropriate.•Facilitate daily operational activities and measure process quality and compliance. •Identify, evaluate, and implement automation and continuous improvement ideas supporting ITIL-aligned processes. •Partner with business users, process owners, architecture, and application teams to support data needs that follow Vistra standards. •Help create policies, standards, guidelines and procedures in order to ensure data is available, responsive, and achieving business outcomes and objectives.•Analyze code for non-standard practices and errors and present detailed plans to improve them.•Build unit tests to support a test-driven development approach. •Develop positive working relationships with technology teams, business teams, and vendors in order to promote alignment between functions.•Design and create metrics for improved measurement and reporting.•Understand and apply the value drivers for Vistra to deliver innovative value creation ideas. •Train the TS and end user community to assist with the adoption and communication of TS processes. •Participate in agile ceremonies. •Provide domain guidance to less experienced team members.•Apply understanding of financial principles impacting the applications supported by the team.

Education, Experience, & Skill Requirements

•5-7 years professional experience in a technology or business field•Professional certifications a plus (e.g., ITIL, CSM, AWS)•Proven ability to identify, evaluate, and implement opportunities for automation and continuous improvement of ITIL-aligned processes.•Experience programming using two or more coding languages•Ability to analyze code for non-standard practices and errors•Demonstrated ability to be trustworthy and dependable •Ability to learn quickly, be self motivated to improve knowledge and tackle new challenges •Exceptional organizational skills, communication skills, and attention to detail required•Proficient at creating leadership-level communications and presenting to and interacting with leaders•Must demonstrate an energetic, hands-on, enthusiastic, results-oriented approach as a team player, capable of adding significant value to the existing team.•Minimum High School Diploma or equivalent

Key Metrics

•System availability•Process compliance•Data availability•Data quality •Agile delivery proficiency•Ticket volumes and trending

 

Software Engineer responsible for : - 

Cloud (AWS) platform enhancement, optimization & support, focusing on following services: -- 

• EKS (Elastic Kubernetes Service) 


• Elastic Search


• Elastic Cache


• SQS & MQ


• Cloud Networking -- EC2, ELB, Security Groups etc.


• Kinesis Data Stream/Kafka


• AWS Operation Optimization


• Programming infrastructure as code through use of AWS CFT, Terraform etc.


• Programming experience with Python, Java etc with hands-on containerization exposure preferred.


• Exposure to CI/CD (Jenkins) preferred.


• Exposure to data storage solutions like Snowflake, Postgres etc.

Job Family

Information Technology

Company

Vistra Corporate Services Company

Locations

Irving, Texas

Texas

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