Lead Cloud Software Engineer

Company :

Highmark Health

Job Description : 

JOB SUMMARY

This job is a leader of cloud-first application design to drive the organization's next-generation technologies. The incumbent works to adopt, standardize, expand, maintain, and optimize cloud usage across the organization by both developing new applications and migrating existing applications to utilize cloud technologies. The incumbents own the entire process of cloud application development and must stay current with new cloud offerings to continue to produce cutting-edge software. Mentoring and training more junior engineers is a pivotal responsibility of this position. 

ESSENTIAL RESPONSIBILITIES

• Oversee design & implementation cloud-based technical architectures, migration approaches, and application optimizations that enable business objectives.
• Act as subject matter expert, and leader to less senior software engineers, as needed.
• Develop and enforce cloud standards as needed.
• Define procedures and create scripts to deploy software into cloud environments.
• Performs research and analysis required for project proposals, system modifications, and new application.
• Works to optimize cloud spend & resource efficiency across cloud applications within organization.
• Maintain services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health.
• Drafts and reviews architectural diagrams and design documents with other software engineers and architects.
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

EDUCATION

Required

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Information Sciences or Engineering

Substitutions

• None

Preferred

• Master's degree in Information Sciences

EXPERIENCE

Required

• 7 years in at least two modern programming languages (Python, Java, JavaScript preferred), and experience with at least three of the following: NodeJS, NoSQL databases, HTML5, CSS, Google Cloud Platform or Amazon Web Services.
• 7 years producing code that is fault-tolerant, efficient, and maintainable
• 7 years in design and analysis of algorithms, data structures, and design patterns in the building and deploying of scalable, highly available systems

To Include:

• 5 years of experience in building and maintaining Rest Web Services and API’s.
• 3 years of designing, building, and deploying scalable cloud-based solution architectures.
• 1 year with containerization and container orchestration technologies such as Google Kubernetes Engine (GKE).
• 1 year with server-less computing

Preferred

• 3 years with Big Data processing and storage
• 3 years with machine learning esp. in Natural Language Understanding, Machine Translation, Deep Neural Networks and related fields

LICENSES or CERTIFICATIONS

Required

• None

Preferred (any of the following)

• GCP Professional Cloud Architect
• GCP Professional Cloud Developer
• GCP Professional Data Engineer
• AWS Solutions Architect
• Microsoft Azure Architect

SKILLS

• Demonstrated ability to achieve stretch goals in a highly innovative and fast-paced environment
• Ability to speak and write English fluently and idiomatically
• Interest and ability to learn other programming languages as needed
• Experience and willingness to mentor other engineers and help develop their skills and leadership
• Ability to quickly produce prototypes and proof of concepts
• Ability to present to leadership and articulate complex technical scenarios
• Strong understanding of web services

Language (Other than English):

None

Travel Requirement:

0% - 25%

PHYSICAL, MENTAL DEMANDS and WORKING CONDITIONS

Position Type

Office-based

Teaches / trains others regularly

Occasionally

Travel regularly from the office to various work sites or from site-to-site

Rarely

Works primarily out-of-the office selling products/services (sales employees)

Never

Physical work site required

Yes

Lifting: up to 10 pounds

Constantly

Lifting: 10 to 25 pounds

Occasionally

Lifting: 25 to 50 pounds

Rarely

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