Microservices Software Engineer (Python & AWS)

MOI: Phone/Skype or F2F if local
Client: NBC Universal
Location: Englewood Cliffs, NJ or Centennial, CO (Denver area)
Note : NO OPT's

Responsibilities: Duties include, but are not limited to:

• Work closely with product management and the lead architect to translate business requirements into scalable and highly available tools
• Implement Cloud and Microservice best practices while adhering to standard architecture patterns
• Develop microservice applications to support the media asset management systems and implement them using appropriate technologies & frameworks
• Drive the adoption of new technologies including containers, clustering, cloud computing, serverless and API
• Follow Agile best practices and tools adopted by the team
• Integrate various software platforms and external 3rd party systems through vendor APIs.
• Work with vendor(s) on API implementation and troubleshooting, suggesting necessary features and identifying enhancement opportunities.
• Configure Dev, QA and Production environments with proper packages and dependencies to enable development, working closely with DevOps and QA teams
• Participate when needed in 24x7 application support schedule; some overnight/off hours shift-schedule support will be required during on-air rollouts, emergencies, and special broadcast events.

Required Skills & Experience:

• Solid experience working within a Microservices setting including development experience
• Languages: Python, Node.JS and Golang
• Must have experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS) including Lambda
• Solid experience working with Unix/Linux environments for development, including package management and basic system administration.
• Experience developing software against documented third-party APIs and working with vendors to identify and correct issues and drive enhancements.
• Experience working with IT systems, with a solid understanding of network protocols and standards (e.g. DNS, TCP, HTTP, FTP, SSH).
• Plusses/Nice to haves (not required): Docker, GraphQL, Object Storage

Below are a list of technologies the client uses, but the skills listed above are the key ones for this particular role:

• Back End Skills: Microservices, REST, GraphQL, Node.js, Database (Postgres, MySQL, etc.), Python, TensorFlow, PyTorch, scikit-learn, NumPy, Golang
• Data Streaming: Kafka, NiFi, Storm, Hadoop, Spring XD/Spring Batch
• DevOps/Platforms: Amazon Web Services (S3, RDS, EC2, ECS, Lambda, SQS, SNS, DynamoDB, CloudFormation, etc), Terraform, Chef, Docker, Ansible.
• Automation Testing: Selenium, Karma, Mocha, Jest, Cucumber, ATDD, Protractor, Automated Performance and Regression/Functional Testing
• CI/CD: Jenkins, Artifactory, Nexus
• Build Tools: maven, gradle, grunt, gulp, git, svn, npm, yarn, lein, boot, Xcode
• Agile and Scrum methodologies for software development and project execution.
• Familiarity with project tracking and collaboration tools such as JIRA and Confluence (Wikis)

Previous experience working with Cloud Native toolkits