Software Engineer

Software Engineer III

Job Summary: Talent Software Services is in search of a Software Engineer for a contract position in Richfield, MN. The opportunity will be a year with a strong chance for a long-term extension.

Position Summary:

• Data Transport Platforms & Enablement team: Responsible for building & supporting multi-origin, highly scalable and secure event streaming, data transfer, and messaging technology solutions.
• Installation, configuration, monitoring, and operations of these messaging systems are done through leveraging automation scripts such as Chef, Terraform, Ansible, and Cloud Native API s.
• Messaging solutions are used across the organization for application integrations and data transfers. These solutions serve critical applications like store systems, order management systems, supply chain & merchandising systems, dotcom applications, etc.
• Data Transport Team provides Middleware / Integration services to most of the application teams within the organization.
• This role requires the resource to work on the Intake requests submitted by multiple projects for creating the Integrations between apps.
• Supporting 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.

• 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 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.

Qualifications:

• IBM MQ & IBM ACE: 5 - 7 years
• Infrastructure provisioning tools such as Chef or Ansible or Terraform: 1 - 2 years
• 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

Preferred:

• 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.

If this job is a match for your background, we would be honored to receive your application!

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