Application Reliability Engineer

Application Reliability Engineer

Location: Santa Clara Valley

Client: Apple Pay

Rate: Max $50/hr on W2 Only W2 candidates allowed with LinkedIn and reference details

5+ years of overall experience in providing application development and support for on-premise and cloud based Enterprise Data warehouse applications

Good programming skills in at least 2 languages Java, Perl, Python, Scala

Good hands-on experience in Unix, Linux, Shell scripting, SQL, autosys, Kafka and Splunk

Hands-on with development to production processes including testing, version control tools like git/svn and experience with source control, continuous integration, deployments etc.

Continuously identify, elevate and lead the risks and mitigation paths for high-velocity and complex NPIs

Build a deep understanding of multi-function NPI processes, across Retail, Operations and IS&T

Experience with Automation skills using Ansible, Chef, Jenkins, and Puppet

Good to have knowledge on messaging queues like Kafka, Geneva, and Stratos

Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools and building pipeline using Jenkins or any other tool

Strong verbal and written communication skills and ability to coordinate with multiple technical and functional users

Self-motivated with excellent time management skills

High attention to detail and you are good at finding edge cases

Experience working on projects across languages and geos, multiple channels

Familiar with Agile software processes and methodologies, and you can scope/prioritize issues accordingly

Strong analysis, problem solving, and troubleshooting techniques

Responsibilities:

• Drive issue triaging and troubleshooting by looking at application logs and application code in order to route to the correct team
• Able to do root cause analysis, process improvements and implementation
• Ensuring resilience through pro-active testing and preventive maintenance
• Set up monitoring and alert mechanisms to address issues before they become problems
• Identify automation opportunities to prevent incidents from recurring
• Develop prototypes and execute experiments to help guide engineering efforts
• Effectively document and communicate standards to platform users
• Maintain in depth understanding of end-to-end experience and system architecture
• Able to perform code fixes for problems and support activities such as incident trend analysis under minimum supervision

Experience: BE/BT/BS Computer Science, 5+ years of experience in the software industry

Proven work experience in software development

3+ years of prior experience working as a software developer

Strong knowledge of infrastructure deployment methodologies, tools and processes

Up-to-date on the latest industry trends; able to articulate trends and potential clearly and confidently