Location: Hybrid in Charlotte, NC (2-3 days in office/week). Open to remote for exceptional candidates
1-year contract with strong opportunity for extension or full-time conversion
W-2 only (cannot accommodate Corp-to-Corp or 1099. No referrals.)
Brooksource is searching for an AWS cloud native Application Developer/Engineer to join our Fortune 500 Energy & Utilities client’s Digital Transformation organization.
Primary responsibilities will include the real-time movement of data from on-prem data sources to AWS landing stores (S3, RedShift, DynamoDB, etc.) via streaming technologies and development of interfaces to the data via direct query technologies (i.e. Athena), custom API’s and Streams. This includes the development of required AWS infrastructure and data product specific application code.
Workers at this level manage sprint backlog tasks in application areas of specialization, with minimal supervision. They are fully competent in cloud native concepts and best practices. They identify problems, develop solutions, and take actions to resolve. Designs, develops and deploys innovative and advanced cloud native application.
Typical Functions:
- Creates, maintains and enhances cloud native services as part of a durable product team.
- Researches, evaluates and implements new technology to optimize application efficiency and usability.
- Designs new functionality based on product backlog priorities and coordinates development efforts in collaboration with durable product team and cross-functional organizations.
- Maintains records to document system and programming development and revisions.
- Leverages CICD automation and best practices to deliver quality solutions to our end users
- Applies iterative development to continuously deliver value through frequent deployments
- Mentor’s other application developers.
- Ensures adherence to appropriate design, coding and cybersecurity standards.
- Leads design and code walk-thru as a presenter or reviewer.
Required Experience:
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.
- In lieu of a degree, 8 years of related business experience.
- Work experience in addition to degree: 5-10 years as an IT Application Developer with an emphasis on cloud native development.
- Effective communication skills, continuous learning, and ability to meld into a positive, and self-driven team dynamic are essential to success.
Job-specific knowledge, skills or abilities:
- Data product engineer with AWS back end development experience
- Streaming technologies and development of interfaces to the data via direct query technologies (i.e. Athena), custom API’s and Streams.
- Development of required AWS infrastructure and data product specific application code.
- Languages: Python (Primary skill) & Java Spring Boot (Secondary skill)
- AWS Services & Other Applicable Frameworks/Tools include, but are not limited to: Lambda, ECS, EKS, EMR+Hudi, Flink, RedShift, S3, Athena, Glue, Kafka/Confluent, Qlik Replicate, DynoDB
- NOTE: Developers do not leverage the AWS Console, so Infrastructure as Code (IaC) experience is required (Terraform preferred)
Preferred Qualifications:
- Terraform Enterprise
- Effective communication skills.
- Full stack development experience with exposure to java cloud native APIs
- Experience with event driven architecture leveraging Kafka
- Experience with Pivotal Cloud Foundry, AWS, Azure, GCP or other cloud platforms
- Demonstrated success in complex problem solving and an understanding of quality delivery.
- Demonstrated ability to work with others having differing priorities/views/goals than your own; to meet your goals.
- Understand and lead others in use of System Development Life Cycle (SDLC).
- Familiarity with Bitbucket and Jira
- Exposure to code scanning tools such as SonarQube and CheckMarx
Eight Eleven Group provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, age, sex, citizenship, disability, genetic information, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, marital status, amnesty or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
