Job Details

Infrastructure Developer

COLUMBUS-43210, OH, US
06/19/2019

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Required Skills

    programming languages
Company

Infinity Consulting Solutions, Inc

Experience

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Job Description

InfinityConsulting Solutions (ICS) is currently seeking a talented Infrastructure Developer for a contract-to-hire opportunity with one of our clients in the Columbus, Ohio area.

Description:

A team has been formed to address the engineering and development of a service to provide Apache Cassandra as a fully managed self-service platform.

This team focusses on lowering the barrier of entry for use of Apache Cassandra by automating deployments, providing self-service tooling, and consulting with application teams in the bank to ensure proper usage of Apache Cassandra.

The focus is to engineer a platform that can be managed at scale (hundreds of clusters and thousands of nodes) with minimal manual operational support.

This Cassandra team is part of a larger Platform Services organization that provides modern platform as a service functions related to technologies such as Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, Elastic Search, CockroachDB, Hadoop, and more.

As a whole, the goal of the organization is to provide a cohesive integrated environment for developing complex financial applications.

As a Senior Software Engineer working in the Platform Service Cassandra team, you will own major deliverables in all aspects of an agile software development lifecycle: scoping, design, testing and implementation.

Additionally, as a Full Cycle DevOps Engineer, you will be expected to engage with end users consuming the service to help resolve issues and solve real business problems.

The qualified candidate would be expected to consume new concepts and technologies quickly, as well as be able to educate technologists on their applicability and usage.
Finally, as consumers of the open-source Apache Cassandra project, the expectation is that the qualified candidate would contribute back to the open-source community.

Responsibilities:


” Contributing to overall direction of Platform Services

” Owning full development lifecycle from scope to implementation of critical components or features

” Design and build systems that are scalable, robust, and automated, with little human touch to support and operate

” Follow SRE and DBRE (Database Reliability Engineering) practices and methodologies to establish efficient and reliable database platform.

” Evaluate new technologies (vendor and open source) and recommend solutions

” Hands on development and integration of multiple systems

” Work with multiple teams to achieve overall goal

Qualifications:


” Proficiency in programming languages such as Java (preferred), C/C++, or Python with a strong base in object-oriented and/or functional design and development

” Knowledge of professional software engineering practices & best practices for the full software development life cycle, including coding standards, code reviews, source control management, build processes, testing, and operations

” Experience building scalable, fault tolerant infrastructure software or distributed systems, preferably in a Unix or Linux platform

” Deep understanding of data structures, algorithms and their performance

” Knowledge of Apache Cassandra operational and data modelling concepts

” Strong verbal and written communication skills

” Strong critical thinking and problem solving skills

” Focus on customers, ownership, operations and the ability to deliver results

” Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related field

Preferred Qualifications:


” Knowledge of Apache Cassandra and other NoSQL Technologies would be a distinct advantage

” Strong Linux skills os configuration, shell scripting

” Experience operating and developing in JVM-based environments

” Configuration Management tool experience (Saltstack, Puppet, CFEngine)

” Knowledge of distributed systems

” Knowledge of management and development of PaaS environments

” You read alot of tech blogs and have formulated opinions on the use of technology


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Candidate Requirements
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Bachelors

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Recruiter Details
Doug Klares
1350 Broadway, Suite 2205, NEW YORK-10018, NY, US
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