Test - Senior Software Engineer

Ampcus Inc. is a certified global provider of a broad range of Technology and Business consulting services. We are in search of a highly motivated candidate to join our talented Team.

Job title and location

Job Title: Test - Senior Software Engineer.
Location: Wilmington, DE.

Job responsibilities

• Lead complex public cloud migrations, proactively identify potential issues, and implement risk mitigation strategies to ensure the success of multiple cloud initiatives.
• Collaborate with product and engineering teams to deliver robust, cloud-based solutions that improve customer experience.
• Take ownership of platform issues from end to end, resolve challenges related to platform build and performance on AWS Cloud, and ensure high-quality, bug-free deliverables.
• Develop strategies and provide guidance to product teams on public cloud onboarding standards and best practices, ensuring migrations are successful and compliant with all regulatory requirements.
• Drive the adoption and effective use of Amazon’s utility computing services (e.g., AWS EC2, S3, RDS, CloudFront, EFS, DynamoDB, CloudWatch, EKS, ECS, MFTS, API Gateway, VPC Peering).
• Design resilient, secure, and high-performance platforms in the public cloud, following Banking best practices.
• Measure and optimize system performance, anticipate customer needs, and drive continuous innovation. Provide operational support and engineering for the public cloud platform, troubleshoot and optimize systems, and automate routine tasks.
• Work closely with cross-functional teams to develop practical solutions and ensure positive user experiences at every touchpoint.
• Manage costs by designing and optimizing public cloud platforms and technologies. Organize and lead game days, resiliency tests, and chaos engineering exercises.
• Apply expertise in programming languages such as Java, Python, SQL, Node, Go, and Scala; work with open-source RDBMS and NoSQL databases; utilize container orchestration tools like Docker and Kubernetes; and leverage a wide range of AWS services.

Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills

• Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5 years’ applied experience.
• A strong understanding of business technology drivers and their impact on architecture design, performance and monitoring, best practices.
• Design and building web environments on AWS, which includes working with services like EC2, ELB, RDS, DynamoDB, EKS, ECS, MFTS, SQS/SNS, S3 and Route53.
• Proficiency in few modern technologies such as: Java version 8, Spring Boot, Restful Microservices, AWS or Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes.
• Experience using DevOps tools in a cloud environment, such as Ansible, Artifactory, Docker, GitHub, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Maven, and Sonar Qube.
• Experience using monitoring solutions like CloudWatch, Prometheus, Datadog, Splunk, Dynatrace.
• Experience and knowledge of writing Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), using tools like CloudFormation or Terraform.
• Experience with one or more public cloud platforms like AWS, GCP, Azure.
• Experience with high volume, SLA critical applications and their interdependence with other applications and databases.
• Experience with high volume, mission critical applications, and building upon messaging and or event-driven architectures.
• Keen understanding of financial industry and their IT systems and optimization of Public Cloud expenses.

Ampcus is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veterans or individuals with disabilities.