Software Engineer

Software Engineer II

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 : 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 the organization 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. 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 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.

Primary Responsibilities / Accountabilities :

• Perform engineering tasks related to installation, monitoring, testing, configuration, migration, maintenance and troubleshooting of infrastructure & technology platform such as Informatica Power Center & Data Quality primarily.
• Experience on any of these like IBM MQ & IBM ACE, AWS Glue, Kafka, RabbitMQ, 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 (Offshore hours and Weekends).
• Collaboratively working with other members of the team.

Qualifications :

Preferred :

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

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