Application Modernization Engineer

4 Days ago • 4-7 Years • DevOps • Full Stack Development

Job Summary

Job Description

As an Application Modernization Engineer, you'll work with customers to assess existing enterprise applications for cloud migration/modernization. This involves providing application design expertise, assessing applications and platforms, and proposing rewrite approaches for cloud-native products like Google Kubernetes Engine. You'll work on legacy application re-design and implementation, focusing on scaling, reliability, and ongoing operations (rollouts, monitoring, etc.). You'll also collaborate with Product Management and Engineering to improve our products. Responsibilities include being a technical advisor, designing and building complex applications, recommending migration approaches, coaching engineers, maintaining high development practices, managing project deliverables, designing technical architectures, and creating best practices recommendations and presentations.
Must have:
  • Bachelor's degree in CS or related field
  • 4+ years experience developing applications (Java, Python, Go)
  • 4+ years project management experience
  • 3+ years application/solution architecture experience
  • Experience with internet-facing production applications
Good to have:
  • Cloud-native application design experience
  • Experience with unit testing tools (Junit)
  • Experience with scalable networking technologies
  • Experience with Kubernetes and event-driven design
  • DevOps experience (IaC, CI/CD)
  • Experience with deployment/orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
  • Understanding of open-source server software (e.g., NGINX, RabbitMQ)

Job Details


Minimum qualifications:

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience in software engineering.
  • 4 years of experience in developing applications in one or more languages such as Java, Python, Go, or similar.
  • 4 years of experience managing internal or client-facing projects to completion, with experience troubleshooting clients' technical issues, and working with Engineering, Sales, and Services teams, and customers.
  • 3 years of experience in application or solution architecture.
  • Experience in designing, developing, and maintaining internet facing production-grade applications.

Preferred qualifications:

  • Experience in designing cloud-native enterprise applications.
  • Experience with unit or automated testing tools such as Junit.
  • Experience with scalable networking technologies (e.g., Load Balancers, Firewalls) and web standards (e.g., REST APIs, web security mechanisms).
  • Experience with Kubernetes and event driven application design.
  • Experience with DevOps practices, including infrastructure as code, continuous integration, and automated deployment.
  • Experience with deployment and orchestration technologies (e.g., Puppet, Chef, Salt, Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, OpenStack, Jenkins), and understanding of open source server software (e.g., NGINX, RabbitMQ, Redis, Elasticsearch)

About the job

The Google Cloud Platform team helps customers transform and build what's next for their business — all with technology built in the cloud. Our products are developed for security, reliability and scalability, running the full stack from infrastructure to applications to devices and hardware. Our teams are dedicated to helping our customers — developers, small and large businesses, educational institutions and government agencies — see the benefits of our technology come to life. As part of an entrepreneurial team in this rapidly growing business, you will play a key role in understanding the needs of our customers and help shape the future of businesses of all sizes use technology to connect with customers, employees and partners.

As an Application Modernization Engineer, you will work with customers to assess existing enterprise applications in anticipation of a cloud migration/modernization by providing application design expertise, assessing and classifying applications and application platforms, and proposing rewrite approaches to facilitate deployment to cloud native products like Google Kubernetes Engine. You will work with customers on legacy application re-design and implementation including application scaling, reliability, and ongoing operations such as application and feature rollouts, monitoring, and more. Additionally, you will work closely with Product Management and Product Engineering to build and constantly drive excellence in our products.

Google Cloud accelerates every organization’s ability to digitally transform its business and industry. We deliver enterprise-grade solutions that leverage Google’s cutting-edge technology, and tools that help developers build more sustainably. Customers in more than 200 countries and territories turn to Google Cloud as their trusted partner to enable growth and solve their most critical business problems.

Responsibilities

  • Be a trusted technical advisor to customers, and design and build complex applications. Recommend approaches and estimated effort for application migration and modernization programs.
  • Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
  • Maintain highest levels of development practices (e.g., technical design, solution development, systems configuration, test documentation/execution, issue identification and resolution) writing clean, modular and self-sustaining code, with repeatable quality and predictability.
  • Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables. Work with customers to design technical architectures, migration approaches, and application optimizations.
  • Create and deliver best practices recommendations, tutorials, blog articles, sample code, and technical presentations adapting to different levels of key business and technical stakeholders.

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