What are the responsibilities and job description for the Engineer 5 position at Apex Systems?
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Job#: 2071135
Job Description:
Overview:
As an Engineer 5 at our Fortune 500 client, you will consult as an expert to develop or influence initiatives and resources for highly complex business and technical needs across Engineering. You will consult on the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale, and require vision, creativity, innovation, and advanced analytical and inductive thinking. You will provide expertise to client senior leadership on innovative Engineering business solutions and strategically engage with client personnel.
Responsibilities:
Minimum Requirements:
Preferred Skills:
EEO Employer
Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Employee Services Department at or .
Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.
Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6 months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.
Job Description:
Overview:
As an Engineer 5 at our Fortune 500 client, you will consult as an expert to develop or influence initiatives and resources for highly complex business and technical needs across Engineering. You will consult on the strategy and resolution of highly complex and unique challenges requiring in-depth evaluation across multiple areas, delivering solutions that are long-term, large-scale, and require vision, creativity, innovation, and advanced analytical and inductive thinking. You will provide expertise to client senior leadership on innovative Engineering business solutions and strategically engage with client personnel.
Responsibilities:
- Lead teams within Digital and Innovation Technology and across the enterprise in researching and proposing highly available, resilient, and fault-tolerant infrastructure solutions.
- Design and implement our migration strategy to Kubernetes, ensuring alignment with organizational goals and best practices.
- Integrate with CI/CD delivery pipelines using UrbanCode, Artifactory, Jenkins, and Harness.
- Maintain a scalable, reliable, and secure OpenShift platform, addressing performance, availability, and security challenges.
- Work closely with development, operations, and security teams to understand requirements and deliver platform solutions that meet their needs.
- Implement automation for deployment, monitoring, and scaling of applications on Kubernetes, leveraging tools such as HashiCorp Terraform and Vault.
- Set up monitoring and alerting systems to proactively manage platform health and troubleshoot issues as they arise.
- Create and maintain documentation for architecture, processes, and best practices related to the Kubernetes platform.
- Provide guidance and support to development teams in adopting Kubernetes best practices and utilizing the Kubernetes platform effectively.
- Collaborate closely with the engineering strategy, platform engineering, and development teams to understand infrastructure requirements and drive all aspects of the application journey to the cloud platform.
- Lead and design the platform and infrastructure architecture for 12-factor cloud-ready applications as well as large monoliths undergoing transformation and modernization to be cloud-ready.
- Research industry best practices, evaluate modern technologies, develop standards and engineering best practices, and recommend innovative solutions that support automation and improve platform resiliency and fault tolerance of critical applications.
- Define and drive roadmaps that align with technology and business strategy. Perform hardware and capacity planning, analysis, and forecasts for your portfolio of applications with a focus on highest availability, scalability, performance, and timely delivery.
- Provide in-depth technical systems leadership, consultation, and execution with partner tech teams and leadership to ensure alignment with the Enterprise Architecture.
- Act as an expert resource for other technical teams within Digital Technology.
Minimum Requirements:
- About 10 years of Engineering experience, or equivalent demonstrated through one or a combination of the following: work experience, training, military experience, education.
- About 7 years of DevSecOps with hands-on engineering experience with OpenShift Container Platform.
- Demonstrated technical expertise and comprehensive knowledge of infrastructure design to support high-volume, multi-tier applications.
- Excellent verbal, written, and interpersonal communication skills. Ability to articulate technical solutions to both technical and business audiences.
- Recent and demonstrated ability to influence management on technical or business solutions.
- Knowledge and understanding of Cloud computing, PaaS design principles, and microservices and containers.
- Working knowledge/experience with cloud computing concepts like Virtual Private Cloud (VPC), landing zone, Identity and Access Management (IAM), App Service Environment, Blueprints, Control Plane, Azure Arc, and Google Anthos.
- Experience in partnering with developers and architects from other teams to build solutions and resolve system and business problems.
- Experience in leading/facilitating analysis of current systems and problem identification and resolution.
- Ability to lead/facilitate technically complex discussions and working sessions in person or via teleconference.
- Experience with CI/CD, DevOps concepts, and SRE principles.
- Understanding of Database technologies such as Oracle, PostGres, MSSQL.
- Experience with large data sets, Database, File Systems, and Object Storage.
- Experience in managing deployments on PCF/TAS, and Linux VMs.
Preferred Skills:
- Experience with configuring and supporting application server software such as Apache Tomcat, WebSphere, MQ, etc.
- Experience with Harness.io and/or Ansible.
- Experience with streaming and event-driven systems like Kafka and Flink.
- Experience with designing and implementing High Availability Database Configurations (Cassandra/MongoDB, etc.).
- Understanding of Agile practices and ability to work with Agile teams to define and track user stories.
- Working knowledge of SSO solutions such as SAML, PingFederate.
- Experience with designing and implementing complex Load Balancer Technologies such as F5 and AVI.
- Experience developing microservices and scripts in Java and Python.
EEO Employer
Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Employee Services Department at or .
Apex Systems is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRated's Best of Staffing in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work in the United Kingdom and Mexico.
Apex Benefits Overview: Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6 months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Apex team member can provide.
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