Consulting - Technology Consultant at Mastech Digital

Duration: 12+ Months Contract
Location: Remote
Role: Consulting - Technology Consultant
Primary Skills: Amazon Web Services (AWS)
Role Description: As a Consulting - Technology Consultant, you must have at least 8+ years of experience. For this role, you must be a Java or Node.js software developer who has moved to automating the creation of Cloud resources needed for the software he/she is developing…someone who has experience building proof-of-concepts to validate new tools and architectures, in addition to experience with the full software development lifecycle in an agile world.  Most importantly, the successful candidate will be able to explain their design and/or architectural decisions, and their contribution to improving their workplace.  This is not an SRE or System Admin role. 
Key Responsibilities and Duties:
In this role, you will lead the analysis and design of solutions, work collaboratively with internal software engineering teams to automate the creation of cloud resources and software artifacts, automate the testing of those artifacts and then automate the deployment and monitoring of the solutions.  
You will also troubleshoot issues with cloud infrastructure-as-code as well as various software languages, with the goal of improving software speed-to-market, quality, and security. You should be comfortable mentoring junior developers, talking networking with the cloud team as well as OOD concepts with Java developers. 
- With an eye toward continual improvement, propose and lead new and improved solutions in areas ranging from tools to processes to technical skills for Development Teams.
- Contribute to overall body of software development knowledge, including solution options, risk, cost, and impacts.
- Mentor junior developers to help them grow their experience and knowledge.
- Participate actively in code reviews, tool evaluations, documenting new features.
- Interface with multiple software development teams to help them automate their build/deploy/publish processes and adopt the Enterprise CI/CD platform.
- Promote Cloud, Security and DevOps best practices and architectures.
- Help extend the CI/CD platform to support new tools and technologies to facilitate adoption, developing high quality and well-designed code with automated tests.
“Must Have” Specific Knowledge and Skills:
- Bachelor’s degree or the equivalent in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering.
- 4+ years in Cloud software development (AWS and *nix is the preferred environment), with a focus on Infrastructure-as-code tools like AWS CloudFormation, Azure Resource Manager or preferably Terraform.
- 8+ years in software development creating applications and/or REST API services, with languages such as Java, Python or NodeJS, and test automation, such as JUnit or Mocha
- Ability to discuss and promote cloud development best practices.
- Full software development lifecycle experience: from design through development, testing, implementation, production, monitoring and support.
- Hands-on development skills key technologies – Java/Groovy, Ansible, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), Docker, Cloud Kubernetes, AWS Lambda/Azure Functions, NoSQL such as MongoDB or DynamoDB.
- REST-based API and web architecture and development.
- Solid understanding of Enterprise architecture, microservices and event driven architecture.
- Experience creating Cloud data stores, such as DynamoDB, S3, Aurora or MongoDB, then coding applications to access those data stores.
Education: Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Electrical/Electronic Engineering, Information Technology or another related field or Equivalent
Experience: Minimum 8+ years of experience
Relocation: This position will not cover relocation expenses
Travel: No
Local Preferred: Yes
Note: Must be able to work on a W2 basis (No C2C)
Recruiter Name: Zulker Ali
Recruiter Phone: 412-275-4773
Equal Employment Opportunity 
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