Title: Senior Software Engineer

Key Responsibilities

As a Senior Software Engineer you be a member of a team which will design, develop and deliver a suite of capabilities which will be part of the Next Generation Converged Infrastructure (NGCI) automation software.

• Together with a team of engineers own the delivery of a defined suite of software features in accordance with high-level systems architecture and software engineering guidelines.
• Design and develop high quality software in an efficient and timely manner in accordance with internal and industry best practises.
• Engage with domains experts and feature owners to translate requirements into software deliverables that can be implemented by your team.
• Provide input and support program & agile planning activities such as sizing of deliverables, sprint and release planning.
• Communicate progress to management and technical leadership and proactively escalate impediments outside your control.
• Provide mentorship and guidance to junior engineers on the team.
• Participate in architecture, design, code and test plan reviews.
• Support overcoming technical challenges and risks through mitigation activities such as technology spikes or investigations.

Essential Requirements

• 5 years’ experience designing and developing enterprise software
• Experience in IT infrastructure automation & Infrastructure as a Service
• Strong communicator, and be comfortable communicating technically at both high and low levels.
• Experience of test driven development, software configuration management, automated testing, CI/CD
• Experience in Python, Ansible , Service Mesh, Kubernetes & Microservices (insert primary language)
• Experience in API development and consumption
  • REST, JSON, XML
• Experience in developing on Linux/Unix platform
• Experience in VMware based virtualization technology.

Highly Desirable Requirements

• Experience in the application of software design best practices and patterns e.g. MVC, command pattern, persistence and transaction models.
• Experience with system’s management technologies such as Puppet, Ansible, Salt or Chef.

• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes; creating, maintaining and operating container-based solutions.

• Knowledgeable in a subset of the following physical infrastructure domains:
  • Storage, network, compute, virtualization.

• Knowledge and experience of common software development tool sets, such as:
  • GitHub, Jira, Jenkins, Concourse, Pivotal Cloud Foundry, etc.
• Knowledge of scripting languages and Linux platform tools like bash, python, perl, awk, sed and grep.
• Knowledge of Linux system administration and networking.
• Business Acumen

Desirable Requirements

• Knowledge of large enterprise data center environments.
• Past experience as IT administration or similar support role
• Experience working with large enterprise customers.
• Knowledgeable in Public & Private Cloud technologies and the Software Defined Datacenter
• Knowledge and expertise in the VMware product portfolio (including vCenter, vSAN, NSX, vRealize etc.).

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Job Family: Engineering Software-Engineer Job ID: R065116