Senior Principal Software Engineer
Job Summary: Talent Software Services is in search of a Senior Principal Software Engineer for a contract position in Hopkinton, MA. The opportunity will be one year with a strong chance for a long-term extension.
Primary Responsibilities/Accountabilities: - Designs, codes, tests, debugs and documents software according to our systems quality standards, policies and procedures.
- Analyses business needs and creates software solutions.
- Responsible for preparing design documentation.
- Prepares test data for unit, string and parallel testing.
- Evaluates and recommends software and hardware solutions to meet user needs.
- Resolves customer issues with software solutions and responds to suggestions for improvements and enhancements.
- Works with business and development teams to clarify requirements to ensure testability.
- Drafts, revises, and maintains test plans, test cases, and automated test scripts.
- Executes test procedures according to software requirements specifications Logs defects and makes recommendations to address defects.
- Retests software corrections to ensure problems are resolved.
- Documents evolution of testing procedures for future replication.
- May conduct performance and scalability testing.
- Plans, conducts and manages assignments generally involving large, high budgets (cross- functional) projects or more than one project.
- Assists in creating the strategic technical and architectural direction to the programming function.
- Serves as point of contact between IT and key business users' senior leadership in defining IT solution based on business needs.
- Drives changes in architecture, methodology or programming procedures.
- Performs estimation efforts on the most complex projects and tracks progress.
- Obtains detailed specification from business users and development to ascertain specific output information requirements.
- Prepares detailed plans for managing cross-testing team dependencies.
- Serves as the testing consultant to leaders in the IT organization and functional user groups.
- Mentors team members on all aspects of testing concepts.
Story Behind the Need - Business Group & Key Projects: - The IT Infrastructure Architect - Cloud Platform Engineer is responsible for the deployment and operations of Cloud Platforms and services in our Private Cloud infrastructure.
- As a member of the Cloud Platforms infrastructure team, you will enhance our next-gen private cloud platforms.
- You will work in Cloud Platforms Services team to secure our NextGen private cloud platforms delivering Platform as a Service (Tanzu Application Service/Cloud Foundry, others), on VMWare vSphere.
- Resource will have experience working with platform engineers in designing, building, and maintaining PaaS platform and guiding the application developers to build Cloud Native solutions.
Qualifications: - 8 to 12 years of professional experience with a bachelor's degree in computer science or a relevant field
- Strong experience with Linux, Networking and storage fundamentals, Docker, Kubernetes administration, Kubernetes RBAC, POD Security, Operators, NGINX ingress controller, HELM, Service Mesh - Istio, Programming - Shell scripting, Python, Automation - Ansible, CICD
- Strong working experience with application architecture, HA, DR, Infrastructure services (DNS, Load Balancer, Firewall, TLS certs, web servers, reverse proxies, GIT
- Broad knowledge in systems telemetry and monitoring (ELK, Prometheus, Grafana, Dynatrace Splunk, etc.)
- Experience with Agile methodologies, effective working independently.
- Kubernetes administration, Linux & basic knowledge of Infra components (Network, Storage etc.)
- Support App teams to resolve their issues.
- Help customers to onboard to the KOB Platform.
- Assist with migration activity to App teams.
- Build new Infra/Platform.
- Automation, capacity planning, performance tuning, etc.
Preferred: - Ansible, Grafana, PowerBI, Dynatrace.
If this job is a match for your background, we would be honored to receive your application.
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