Offer summary

Qualifications:

At least 8 years of experience in developing and maintaining Java applications., Extensive hands-on experience with Spring MVC, Spring Boot, JPA, and Hibernate., Strong knowledge of AWS services and Azure DevOps tools., Excellent communication skills and ability to work under pressure..

Key responsabilities:

Manage deployment of applications in production and non-production environments.

Troubleshoot application issues and work on service tickets according to priority.

Create and maintain documentation regarding technical architecture and operational aspects.

Collaborate with project managers and stakeholders to deliver operational enhancements.

Job description

Title: Senior Application Operations Engineer
Location: Remote, NY
Duration: 1 year

Job Description:
The successful candidate will serve as a Senior Application Operations Engineer reporting to the DevOps Applications division.
This position is responsible for supporting applications deployed to AWS that were part of the Application Modernization Initiative.
The Application Operations Engineer is responsible for daily operational tasks including deployments, triaging issues, creating fixes, and resolving service tickets in a timely fashion. The Application Operations Engineer will also be responsible for maintaining up-to-date documentation regarding all aspects of the application including technical architecture, design, and operational aspects.
This role should be able to communicate effectively with project manager, QA, and business stakeholders. When required, Senior Application Operations Engineer works closely with the Application Operations Lead in delivering operational enhancements to applications in a timely fashion and adhering to the OTI standards and processes with emphasis on code quality and security guidelines.

Tasks:
• Manage deployment of applications in production and non-production environments.
• Work on service tickets according to priority.
• Troubleshoot application issues.
• Work on making enhancements to improve the security of the applications, as needed
• Utilize triaging and observability tools provided by the cloud provider (AWS, Azure etc.).
• Work with CI/CD and project management tools like Azure DevOps.
• Responsible for analysis, problem definition, requirements, and solution development while creating defect fixes and enhancements.
• Work with source code quality and security tools for both static and dynamic analysis • Create and maintain relevant project documentation.
• Participate and in technical (configuration, code, etc.) reviews.

MANDATORY SKILLS/EXPERIENCE Note:
• At least 8 years of experience developing and maintaining Java applications.
• Work with Java project build tools like Maven and Gradle.
• Extensive hands-on experience with Spring MVC, Spring Boot, JPA, Hibernate and JSP.
• Excellent knowledge of Relational Database technologies: Oracle and/or PostgreSQL.
• Experience with the operations of AWS Services such as faregate/ECS, Lambda, EC2, EFS, ELB, etc.
• Experience monitoring AWS services and custom applications using CloudWatch and similar tools.
• Expert knowledge of Azure DevOps: GIT, CI/CD build and release pipelines.
• Strong oral and written communications skills. • Self-motivated, must be a proven team player.
• Keeps calm under pressure while triaging a production application fault, particularly in an outage scenario.

DESIRABLE SKILLS/EXPERIENCE:
• Strong scripting skills in languages like Python, PowerShell, Bash (Linux) shell.
• Experience integrating with external SaaS systems.
• Expertise in developing user interfaces using ReactJS.
• Containerization experience with Docker.
• Hands on experience with JavaScript, HTML and CSS.

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