Senior Engineer – IaaS (Remote) - GTT, LLC
Chevy Chase, MD
About the Job
Senior Engineer – IaaS (Cluster Management)
Job Summary
Job Description
Job Responsibilities
As a Senior Engineer, you will:
Qualifications
Experience
Education
Benefits:
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- Duration: 3-month contract/right to hire
- Contract hourly pay rate: $80/hr
- Direct Hire Salary after contract: $150K a year
- Because this position has the option to go from contract to full-time, we can only accept candidates with the work authorization of a US Citizen or Green Card.
Job Summary
- Seeking an experienced senior Engineer with a passion for building high-performance, low-maintenance, zero-downtime platforms, and applications.
- You will help drive our insurance business transformation as we transition from a traditional IT model to a tech organization with engineering excellence as its mission while co-creating a culture of psychological safety and continuous improvement.
Job Description
- Our Senior Engineer works with our Distinguished Engineer and Principal Engineers to innovate and build new systems, improve, and enhance existing systems as well as identify new opportunities to apply your knowledge to solve critical problems.
- You will lead the strategy and execution of a technical roadmap that will increase the velocity of delivering products and unlock new engineering capabilities.
- The Cluster Management team's mission is to bring to reality the next-generation container cluster management and orchestration platform on Kubernetes that is secure, reliable, scalable, and highly efficient.
- The ideal candidate has good technical expertise in software engineering, containers, and cluster management based on Kubernetes, and the open-source IaaS platform domain.
Job Responsibilities
As a Senior Engineer, you will:
- Collaborate with product managers, team members, customers, and other engineering teams to solve our toughest problems
- Develop and execute technical software development strategy for the IaaS domain like containers and cluster management, while optimizing for performance and efficiency
- Own accountability for the quality, usability, and performance of the solutions
- Consistently share best practices and improve processes within and across teams
- Take on-call and operational support
Qualifications
- Strong foundations in software engineering including system design, implementation best practices, and testing
- Experience with REST APIs, Microservices, and containers
- Experience in software development with at least one modern programming language, including Go, Python, or Java
- Experience with open-source platforms with an emphasis on building enterprise-scale applications using caching, events, SQL, and NoSQL databases
- Hands-on experience with public and/or private cloud environments (OpenShift, Kubernetes, Azure, AWS, GCP, etc.)
- Basic understanding and managing CI/CD toolchain products like Jira, Git, Artifactory, Jenkins, Anchore, SonarQube, and IaC tools like Terraform, Ansible, Puppet, Chef is a plus
- Experience with building the architecture and design (architecture, design patterns, reliability, and scaling) of new and current systems
- Intermediate PowerShell scripting skills
- Understanding of security protocols and products such as Active Directory, Windows Authentication, SAML, OAuth
- Experience with continuous delivery (CI/CD) and infrastructure as code
- In-depth knowledge of CS data structures and algorithms
- Strong problem-solving abilities
Experience
- 4+ years of professional PaaS and IaaS software development experience
- 3+ years of experience with system design and implementation
- 3+ years of experience with AWS, GCP, Azure, or another cloud service
- 2+ years of experience in open-source frameworks
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
Benefits:
- Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans
- 401k Retirement Fund
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Source : GTT, LLC