Software Engineer III

Job Title: Software Engineer III Location: Minneapolis, MN - locals only - hybrid **MUST INTERVIEW IN-PERSON in Minneapolis, MN ** Employment Type: contract
Duration: 6+ Months
About VLink: Started in 2006 and headquartered in Connecticut, VLink is one of the fastest growing digital technology services and consulting companies. Since its inception, our innovative team members have been solving the most complex business, and IT challenges of our global clients.
Job Description:
Tell us about your department:

• Data Transport Platforms & Enablement team: The Data Transport Platforms & Enablement team is responsible for building & supporting multi-origin (both in Data Center and on Cloud), highly scalable and secure event streaming, data transfer and messaging technology solutions (tools and infrastructure environments). Installation, configuration, monitoring and operations of these messaging systems is done through leveraging automation scripts such as Chef, Terraform, Ansible and Cloud Native API's.
• Messaging solutions are used across Client for application integrations and data transfers. These solutions as part of a key interfacing system, serves critical applications like store systems, order management systems, supply chain & merchandizing systems, dotcom applications etc.,

Project Description:

• Data Transport Team provides Middleware / Integration services to most of the application teams within Client.
• This role requires the resource to work on the Intake requests that would be submitted by multiple projects for creating the Integrations between apps .
• Along with it this role will be supporting the existing technology infrastructure /platforms or in some cases installing & setting up new ones as part of the Data Transport team that are used to provide the services to the app clients.

Position Summary/Job Description:

• Perform engineering tasks related to installation, monitoring, testing, configuration, migration, maintenance and troubleshooting of infrastructure & technology platform such as IBM MQ & IBM ACE primarily
• Experience on any of these like Informatica Power Center & Data Quality, Kafka, RabbitMQ , AWS Glue, AWS SQS/SNS, AWS MSK, Amazon MQ (Active MQ and RabbitMQ) etc., will be a plus.
• Install and configure these large-scale systems On-Prem and / or on Cloud (AWS) across distributed OS platforms like RedHat Linux, Amazon Linux etc., following standardized and automated process using Infrastructure-as-Code.
• Work with infrastructure provisioning tools such as Chef, Ansible Terraform, Vagrant, and Test-Kitchen.
• Provide input into infrastructure architecture designs.
• Create integrations for the messaging services for the application teams and support them through their testing and production implementation.
• Leverage Agile development methodologies.
• Ensure that the technologies and architecture are up-to-date, stable, and
• compliant, meeting enterprise and security standards.
• Utilize industry standard technologies & methods to ensure the integrity & recoverability like backup & recovery, clustering, security, patch management, enterprise monitoring & performance tuning.
• Proactively monitor and report performance and utilization of assigned
• technologies.
• Troubleshoot software and/or hardware issues & failures independently.
• Resolve alerts and perform remediation activities.
• Participate in a rotating on call schedule.
• Collaboratively working with other members of the team.

Skills Overview:
What are the top five skills and number of years of experience required to perform this job?

• IBM MQ & IBM ACE : 5 - 7 years
• infrastructure provisioning tools such as Chef or Ansible or Terraform : 1 -2
• AWS SQS/SNS : 1 - 2 years
• AWS Amazon MQ ( Active MQ or Rabbit MQ) : 1 2 years
• Kafka ( Self Managed or Cloud native) : 0 - 2 Years
• RabbitMQ (Self Managed) : 0 2 years
• Informatica Power Center & Data Quality Infrastructure & Technology administration: 0-2 years

What are some preferred/nice to have skills the manager is looking for?

• AWS Cloud experience
• Exposure to Infrastructure as a code
• Good communication skills and a team player.
• Open to On call rotations for supporting the platforms.

Employment Practices:
EEO, ADA, FMLA Compliant
VLink is an equal opportunity employer. At VLink, we are committed to embracing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion. VLink does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, or discharge, will be decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, performance, and business needs.