Applications Engineer

Description


Job Title: Applications Engineer Location: Melbourne, FL Employment: Contract (12 months) Industry: Aerospace and Defense Compensation: $42.08 - 116.42 /hr Schedule: 40 hours /week About the Opportunity:

• Support Business Development team by writing white papers, performing trade studies, participating in fast prototyping and writing technical responses for proposals & new program pursuits.
• Interface with customers to understand use cases and define requirements, design Cloud capable solutions, support system level testing, and field the solution in customer environments to support the mission.

Why You'll Love Working Here:

• Supportive, team-driven culture that values collaboration, transparency, and accountability
• Opportunity to grow your career with a global workforce solutions leader serving multiple industries
• People-first environment that encourages employees to bring their authentic selves to work
• Strong focus on partnership, innovation, and delivering meaningful results for clients and candidates

Why This Opportunity is Exciting:

• This role offers the chance to join a company that prioritizes both people and performance-where your contributions directly impact client success while giving you room to grow and develop professionally.

About Acara Solutions

• Acara is a premier recruiting and workforce solutions provider-we help companies compete for talent. With a legacy of experience in various industries worldwide, we partner with clients, listen to their needs, and customize visionary talent solutions that drive desired business outcomes. We leverage decades of experience to deliver contingent staffing, direct placement, executive search, and workforce services worldwide.

Sound like a good fit? APPLY TODAY What You'll Do:

• Leverage existing domain experience hosting solutions in Cloud environments.
• Design large-scale distributed systems using microservices and containers.
• Create and maintain virtualized, containerized or Cloud ready environments used by the software teams.
• This includes periodic updates to components and tools to stay current with latest revisions and security updates.
• Work with security teams to help define and implement security controls.
• Serve as a Subject Matter Expert on Cloud, Microservices, IaC, and DevSecOps topics to lead teams in supporting enterprise solutions.

Job Requirements

What You'll Bring:

• High School Diploma or GED
• 16+ years of experience in software
• 5+ years of experience in leading software teams to deliver enterprise solutions that implement RESTful Web Services, Microservices or Cloud components.
• 3+ years of experience in leveraging CSPs to host Cloud based solutions involving Cloud computing, Containers, VPC, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and Security Groups.
• 3+ years of experience in designing a scalable infrastructure and automated deployment in Cloud environments leveraging tools to support pipelines and containers such as Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes.

What Sets You Apart:

• Bachelor's Degree
• Master Degree
• AWS Solutions Architect and AWS Sys Ops certification(s).
• Kubernetes Administrator certification(s).
• Experience using scripting languages such as Python, Bash or other shell scripting.
• Experience developing applications that leverage relational and noSQL databases (Cassandra, MariaDB, InfluxDB, EnterpriseDB)
• Experience with IaC tools like CloudFormation, Terraform, Puppet or Ansible.
• Experience with iterative software development processes (Agile, SCRUM, Kanban)

Additional Information:

• Upon offer of employment, the individual will be subject to a background check

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