Our client is seeking a Technology Consultant to join their hybrid team in Irving, Texas! The ideal candidate will be able to explain their design and/or architectural decisions, and their contribution to improving their workplace. In this role, you will lead the analysis and design of solutions, work collaboratively with internal software engineering teams to automate the creation of cloud resources and software artifacts, automate the testing of those artifacts, and then automate the deployment and monitoring of the solutions. You will also troubleshoot issues with cloud infrastructure-as-code as well as various software languages, with the goal of improving software speed-to-market, quality, and security. You should be comfortable mentoring junior developers, talking networking with the cloud team as well as OOD concepts with Java developers.
Duties:
Propose and lead new and improved solutions in areas ranging from tools to processes to technical skills for Development Teams
Contribute to overall body of software development knowledge, including solution options, risk, cost, and impacts
Mentor junior developers to help them grow their experience and knowledge
Participate actively in code reviews, tool evaluations, documenting new features
Interface with multiple software development teams to help them automate their processes and adopt the Enterprise CI/CD platform
Promote Cloud, Security and DevOps best practices and architectures
Help extend the CI/CD platform to support new tools and technologies to facilitate adoption, developing high quality and well-designed code with automated tests
Desired Skills/Experience:
Bachelor's degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering
6+ years in software development creating applications and/or REST API services, with languages such as Java, Python or NodeJS, and test automation, such as JUnit or Mocha
4+ years in Cloud software development, with a focus on Infrastructure-as-code tools like AWS CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager, or preferably Terraform
Ability to discuss and promote cloud development best practices
Full software development lifecycle experience: from design through development, testing, implementation, production, monitoring and support
Hands-on development skills key technologies such as Java/Groovy, Ansible, Infrastructure-as-Code, Docker, Cloud Kubernetes, AWS Lambda/Azure Functions, NoSQL such as MongoDB or DynamoDB
REST-based API and web architecture and development
Solid understanding of Enterprise architecture, microservices and event driven architecture
Experience creating Cloud data stores, such as DynamoDB, S3, Aurora or MongoDB, then coding applications to access those data stores