Staff Software Engineer - Azure DevOps, GitHub & CI/CD

This Staff Software Engineer role focuses on architecting cloud-native (Azure) SaaS products in Analytics. The position involves developing quality software, participating in team activities like backlog grooming and planning, and translating business requirements into user stories. Key responsibilities include leading design, ensuring information security, and staying updated with industry trends. The role also involves resolving operational concerns, optimizing service usage, and mentoring junior engineers within a global team across the US and India.

Must Have

• Minimum 11 to 13 years of experience in DevOps or Site Reliability Engineering
• Exposure to Cloud Technologies and Cloud Delivery
• Exposure to CI/CD tools like Azure DevOps and GitHub
• Good scripting background in shell and PowerShell
• Experience with container technologies and microservice architecture (Kubernetes, Docker)
• Experience with generative AI models and understanding of machine learning algorithms
• Proficiency in Java, Springboot, Gradle, GIT, Hibernate, Rest API, OAuth, Powershell
• Experience with MS Azure services (ARM templates, AKS, HD insight, Application gateway, Virtue Networks, Event Hub, Azure AD)
• Familiarity with Kafka, Elasticsearch, Spark, NOSQL, RDBMS, Ignite

Good to Have

• Development experience in any languages
• Python scripting

Scope:

• Core responsibilities to include Architecting and a ground up cloud native (we use Azure) SaaS product in Analytics
• The team currently comprises of 100+ global associates across US, India (COE) and is expected to grow rapidly. The incumbent will need to have leadership qualities to also mentor junior and mid-level software associates in our team.

Our Current Technical Environment:

• Software: Java, Springboot, Gradle, GIT, Hibernate, Rest API, OAuth, Python, Powershell
• Application Architecture: Scalable, Resilient, event driven, secure multi-tenant Microservices architecture
• Cloud Architecture: MS Azure (ARM templates, AKS, HD insight, Application gateway, Virtue Networks, Event Hub, Azure AD)
• Frameworks/Others: Kubernetes, Kafka, Elasticsearch, Spark, NOSQL, RDBMS, Springboot, Gradle GIT, Ignite

What you’ll do:

• Consistently delivers solid quality in both design and implementation and helps the team shape what is built how, in particular:
• Develops quality software (including effective test code) according to clean code principles and Blue Yonder standards.
• Provides input for the prioritization of issues in the backlog and autonomously pulls issues or supports other team members as appropriate.
• Participates in team activities such as backlog grooming, planning, daily stand-ups, and retrospectives.
• Translates business requirements to user stories and actively seeks feedback by the stakeholders.
• Takes the lead in designs of individual stories and translates the design to subtasks.
• Considers aspects of information security while coding and reviewing other's code.
• Keeps up to date with technology and research latest trends in the industry.
• Actively shapes team vision and helps shape the team roadmap towards achieving it.
• Additions for service-delivering teams
• Raises and resolves operational concerns during design phases.
• Produces actionable user stories to relieve operational pain.
• Plans and performs more complex changes and manages stakeholder expectations.
• Seeks out the root cause of incidents and inspires improvements in a blameless fashion.
• Strives to replace service requests with self-service functionality and automation.
• Diligently collaborates with stakeholders to optimize their choice of service and service usage to minimize costs for derived products.
• Leads by example and becomes a subject matter expert in one or more product areas.
• Understands functional and technical requirements of software components.
• Actively provides feedback during code reviews.
• Onboards new members to the team and helps develop junior engineers.
• Participates in team hiring activities.
• Feeds larger refactoring opportunities into the team's backlog.
• Evolves the team’s continuous integration pipeline and fixes broken builds.
• Performs benchmark analyses, identifies hot spots, and derives appropriate measures to improve performance.
• Develops prototypes and proofs of principles for innovative features.
• Reflects on alignment of team vision with company vision.
• Has a deep understanding of their team’s problem domain.
• Clearly understands and communicates the impact of changes in the team’s deliverables on other teams and customers.
• Timely and proactively communicates impediments to commitments and helps others to overcome theirs.