Software Engineer

Software Engineer

Apex Systems has an opening for a Software Engineer for a Large Mobile Network Operator company in Chicago for a 12-month contract.

CLIENT is looking for a Software Engineer to lead/assist with UiPath environment migration to 2023.4 Automation Suite (on-prem) from MSI installed environment(on-prem). Lead upgrade of the environment every Nov-Jan to 202X.10 version. Other times support automations in prod with bug fixes, enhancements, support, env maintenance, etc. (this would include development in RPA)The skills at the top are the most important. (Linux and Automation Suite (including UiPath Infra) familiarity)

Job Requirements

• General Linux Skills/Familiarity
  • Being comfortable working in terminals via SSH and copying files back and forth
  • Understand how to use unzip, and tar
  • Understand what wget is
  • Understand the linux commands to use to start, stop, restart processes.
  • Know how to upgrade, install, restore or add new node.
  • Understand the commands to use.. in order to create sudo entries
• Experience with RHEL (this is the distro we require for Automation Suite)
• Experience/knowledge of Kubernetes
• Some of the components/apps bundled within Automation Suite for managing it and monitoring/alerting
  • ArgoCD – Kubernetes controller with some monitoring
  • Rancher – Monitoring dashboard that utilizes Prometheus, Grafana, and Alertmanager
  • Microservices – to support the automations that use it
  • MongoDB, OpenShift, APIs, HTML, JavaScript, Excel, and advanced automation tools (OCR, IDP, AI/ML)
• Experience with RPA software development/support
• Experience with end-to-end automation designs and architectural patterns
• Experience in project management
• Possesses strong communication skills with the ability to present technical details to a non-technical audience
• Experience with agile development and software development life cycle (SDLC) processes
• Strong conceptual and analytical skills with demonstrated outside-the-box problem solving skills
• Experience in Agile concepts and tools
• Experience in proactive risk assessment and management in project delivery
• Ability to understand a business process based on a workflow diagram and to conceptualize it as an automated solution while using business analysis skills as needed
• Ability to break down business problems into logical tasks and think creatively
• Ability to perform code analysis to understand how code is implemented
• Excellent communication and presentation skills
• Assess automation opportunities from a technical perspective and provide solutions
• Anticipates, identifies, tracks, and resolves technical issues and risks affecting delivery
• Understands and consistently applies current application development methodologies
• Coordinates with Automation CoE leadership on progress of existing implementations
• Develops detailed project plans to monitor and track progress
• Reports and escalates to management as needed
• Understands all the stages of an Automation journey
• Responsible for scripting and coding to build automation, and for creating technical documentation following best practices
• Rigorously execute automation testing, including unit testing, user acceptance testing, and bug fixes. Responsible for peer code assessments and knowledge transfer
• Continues to participate in trainings to further enhance skills and abilities, including tools and best practices
• Monitors incoming support tickets raised from business users, or raised as a result from automation defects
• Responds to anomalies in automation performance by triaging anomaly, identifying suspected root cause, and dispatching to pertinent support party(s)
• Performs troubleshooting by reviewing process logs or error messages to resolve issues
• Determines root cause of incidents (configuration vs. defect)
• Performs code changes or fixes to resolve issues
• Monitors process monitoring dashboards regarding logs, run-time resources, license optimization, etc.
• Assists with production requests, like asset changes, credentials, schedule changes, etc.