- Contingent Worker - Enterprise Application/Tools Management

Contract to Hire

LOCATIONS: CHICAGO or DALLAS

CTH, 3 DAYS IN OFFICE/2 DAYS REMOTE

Looking for a candidate with the following skill sets: JAVA 8 memory model runtime environment concurrency Multithreading API driven applications using (apigee) kafka rabbit MQ active MQ amazon kinesis aws nosql working knowledge of devops terraform ansible Jenkins kubernetes helm ci/cd pipelines

• Primarily responsibility is application development following API driven micro-services and micro-applications architecture for given business requirements adhering agile SDLC.
• Analyzes requirements, develops, tests, and documents software quality to ensure proper implementation.
• Follows agreed upon SDLC procedures to ensure that all information system products and services meet: both explicit and implicit quality standards, end-user functional requirements, architectural standards, performance requirements, audit requirements, security rules are upheld, and external facing reporting is properly represented.
• Application and project risk analysis and recommends quality improvements.
• Providing advice on system functionality and fixes as required
• Communicates in a clear and concise manner all time delays or defects in the software immediately to appropriate team members and management.
• Experience with resolving security vulnerabilities

Must have:

• Java 8+ experience required, including deep understanding of Java fundamentals as Memory Model, Runtime Environment, Concurrency and Multithreading.
• Experience of API driven application development, preferably micro-service style of development
• Deep knowledge of RESTful standards and practices
• Experience in computer algorithms and data structures, including ability to articulate and apply in practice different type of sorting, hashing, partitioning, and search operations.
• Ability to identify both time and memory complexity for the written code.

Nice to have:

• Experience with API governance platform using APIGEE or similar
• Experience with distributed message brokers Kafka, RabbitMQ, ActiveMQ, Amazon Kinesis, etc.
• Experience with cloud technologies and migrations. Experience preferred with AWS foundational services like VPCs, Security groups, EC2, RDS, S3 ACLs, KMS, AWS CLI and IAM etc.
• Experience developing and delivering technical solutions using public cloud service providers like Amazon, Google, etc.
• Experience working with various types of databases like Relational, NoSQL, Object-based, Graph.
• Working knowledge of DevOps tools. Eg Terraform, Ansible, Jenkins, Kubernetes, Helm and CI/CD pipeline etc.
• Familiarity with monitoring related tools and frameworks like Splunk, ElasticSearch, Prometheus, AppDynamics
• Experience following Git workflows
• Get stuff done' and flexible mindset for greater good of the organization.
• Intellectually curious and eager to learn.