RQ11142 Cloud Application Specialist Senior

Responsibilities:

• Create applications that are served on the cloud
  
• Create the software platform to run on virtual systems
  
• Fine-tune the final program after it has been created
  
• Facilitate IT development design construction testing promotion implementation of web-based/n-tier cloud-based and mainframe applications for workstreams.
  
• Responsible for development utilizing a combination of cloud technologies to develop an integrated solution for online transactional processing and integration
  
• Responsible for in integration of any Open Source Software (OSS) products into new and existing systems
  
• Creation and walk-through of Systems Response documents Technical Specifications Application Inventory and Implementation Plans.
  
• Preparation of test plans test data and unit-testing of programs.
  
• Preparation of implementation plans and promotion of programs.
  
• System Support/Documentation
  
• As assigned response to client queries and troubleshooting of production incidents.
  
• Conduct/participate in design walkthroughs as well as test case and test results walkthroughs.
  
• Support testing of the changes by other team members.
  
• Weekly reporting on status progress and key issue/concerns as directed by the Project Lead/Project Manager or Portfolio Manager.
  
• Transfer skills and knowledge to selected OPS staff
  

General Skills:

• Experience creating applications that are served on the cloud
  
• Experience creating the software platform to run on virtual systems
  
• Experience fine-tuning the final program after it has been made
  
• Knowledge of the full software development lifecycle from business systems analysis through requirements gathering and functional specification
  
• Ability to troubleshoot code and make system changes as needed to resolve issues
  
• Experience modify existing software to correct errors to adapt it to new hardware or to upgrade interfaces and improve performance
  
• Experience consulting with engineering staff to evaluate interface between hardware and software
  
• Experience developing specifications and performance requirements and resolving customer problems
  
• Must know at least one programming language and should be proficient in that
  
• Be familiar with software development concepts and databases
  
• Fluency with Hypervisor and Virtualization techniques
  
• Have at least fundamental knowledge of cloud computing and basic Networking skills
  
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team
  
• A team player with proven track record for meeting deadlines
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements

Core Skills and Experience

• Experience with solution design/implementation in a cloud-based environment including:
  
• Minimum 810 years of hands-on experience in cloud application development and engineering
  
• Demonstrated recent expertise in Microsoft Azure (App Services Azure Functions AKS) containerization (Docker Kubernetes/OpenShift) and DevOps/automation tools (Azure DevOps Jenkins Ansible CI/CD pipelines) including building and integrating scalable cloud-native enterprise solutions.
  
• Demonstrated experience in enterprise cloud architecture security (IAM encryption compliance) data engineering (ETL/ELT Azure data services) observability (monitoring/logging) and advanced DevOps/DevSecOps practices including API-driven integration CI/CD pipeline design and scalable high-availability solution delivery
  
• Scripting languages such as python to automate repeatable processes
  
• Experience with automation for infrastructure provisioning using Ansible Jenkins
  
• Experience with network automation processes such as assigning IP addresses and DNS codes
  
• Experience with continuous monitoring to monitor system and application performance and alert on downtimes errors and similar events
  
• Experience with continuous monitoring to monitor system and application performance and alert on downtimes errors and similar events
  
• Fundamentals of Docker containers and containers orchestration platforms such as Kubernetes OpenShift
  
• Experience with running containerized applications in enterprise environment
  
• Experience in VMware-based virtualization and in using cloud services such as Microsoft Azure and Amazon Web Services is a plus
  

Technical & Engineering Skills

• Experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) approach
  
• Experience with writing code to interact with RESTful APIs to replace manual processes such as assigning IP addresses and DNS codes
  
• Fluency in git-based source code management and version control systems Git GitHub GitLab etc.
  
• Demonstrated experience designing developing and implementing end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with integrated security (DevSecOps)
  

General Skills

• Experience creating applications that are served on the cloud
  
• Experience creating the software platform to run on virtual systems
  
• Experience fine-tuning the final program after it has been made
  
• Knowledge of the full software development lifecycle from business systems analysis through requirements gathering and functional specification
  
• Ability to troubleshoot code and make system changes as needed to resolve issues
  
• Experience modify existing software to correct errors to adapt it to new hardware or to upgrade interfaces and improve performance
  
• Experience consulting with engineering staff to evaluate interface between hardware and software
  
• Experience developing specifications and performance requirements and resolving customer problems
  
• Must know at least one programming language and should be proficient in that
  
• Be familiar with software development concepts and databases
  
• Fluency with Hypervisor and Virtualization techniques
  
• Have at least fundamental knowledge of cloud computing and basic Networking skills
  
• Ability to work independently or as part of a team
  
• A team player with proven track record for meeting deadlines
  

Public Sector Experience

• Public sector experience working on mainframe/legacy system
  
  

Must have:

• Minimum 810 years of hands-on experience in cloud application development and engineering
  
• Demonstrated recent expertise in Microsoft Azure (App Services Azure Functions AKS) containerization (Docker Kubernetes/OpenShift) and DevOps/automation tools (Azure DevOps Jenkins Ansible CI/CD pipelines) including building and integrating scalable cloud-native enterprise solutions.
  
• Demonstrated experience in enterprise cloud architecture security (IAM encryption compliance) data engineering (ETL/ELT Azure data services) observability (monitoring/logging) and advanced DevOps/DevSecOps practices including API-driven integration CI/CD pipeline design and scalable high-availability solution delivery
  
• Experience with writing code to interact with RESTful APIs to replace manual processes such as assigning IP addresses and DNS codes.
  
• Demonstrated experience designing developing and implementing end-to-end CI/CD pipelines with integrated security (DevSecOps)
  
  

Employment Type : Full Time
Experience: years
Vacancy: 1