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6 month contract (good chance at FTE conversion)

Onsite in Houston, TX

Large client in banking industry

Job description:

• Play a key role in setting architectural & technical direction: define, design, develop, test, implementation , deploy, and support microservices that comprise mission-critical enterprise applications

• Automate development, testing, and deployment processes

• Share your knowledge and learn with other members of the team, seeks out opportunities for continuous improvement

• Bright and enthusiastic self-starter, demonstrating strong written and verbal communication skills

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

• Ability to thrive in a high pressure, mission-critical environment

Requirements;

This role requires a wide variety of strengths and capabilities, including:

• Preferably a BS or MS degree in computer science, computer engineering, or other technical discipline or equivalent experience

• Deep understanding of cloud architecture, virtualization, APIs, data models, event driven solutions and modern software languages

• Software development experience in one or more general purpose programming languages: Python, Java, etc.. and/or C, C++

• 8+ years of experience utilizing Java platforms for development of mission-critical enterprise Java applications

• Distributed computing and Streaming: Apache Spark and Apache Kafka

• Continuous Integration (CI) and Continuous Delivery (CD) supported by Jenkins, Jules or similar automation servers

• Experience operating in Windows and Unix/Linux

• Experience with one or more cloud infrastructure services such as Amazon, Google, Microsoft

• A working knowledge of Docker and Kubernetes

• Experience developing software using domain-driven design (DDD) approach

• Experience defining RESTful APIs and building RESTful Web Services

• Experience building mission-critical applications based on Microservices Architecture

• Experience with SQL-based relational database: SQL Server, Oracle, etc.

• Experience in Big Data utilities (Hive, Impala) in Spark/Scala frameworks

• Experience with developing frameworks that helps increasing developer and release velocity, improving code health and technical standards

• Advanced experience working with two or more from the following: web application development, database, unix/linux environments, distributed and parallel systems, information retrieval, networking, large scale software development, security software development

• Understanding or have experience with agile and lean philosophies

• Demonstrated leadership in professional engineering teams of 3+

• Strong critical thinking and problem solving skills with clear communication

• Ability to collaborate with different roles to achieve common goals

• Experience with one or more front-development frameworks, such as NodeJS/AngularJS

• Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) experience with a focus on improving application stability and supportability