SR LEAD SOFTWARE DEVELOPER - Platform

Company: CenturyLink
Location: Littleton
Posted on: March 28, 2020

Job Description:

About CenturyLink

CenturyLink (NYSE: CTL) is the second largest U.S. communications provider to global enterprise customers. With customers in more than 60 countries and an intense focus on the customer experience, CenturyLink strives to be the world's best networking company by solving customers' increased demand for reliable and secure connections. The company also serves as its customers' trusted partner, helping them manage increased network and IT complexity and providing managed network and cyber security solutions that help protect their business.



Job Summary
The hands-on Senior Platform Engineer will function as part of a team effort to create an multi-channel Ordering Experience for the Consumer Business Unit and Customers. The Engineer will be engaged in developing best-in-class strategy and solutions for the ordering stack, provide key capabilities for critical cross-organization programs, and prove out emerging technologies and DevOps best practices. Will build automation and systems management tools that make it easier to scale the ordering platform and deliver cloud services. Will work on improving systems performance and reliability, responsible for refining a defined high-level Microservices architecture and provide architecture know-how within local agile development teams, providing hands-on involvement with development and test through the entire product realization process.




Job Description
Actively drive efforts to build best-in-class microservices and stack utilizing cutting-edge solutions
Educate and assist other teams with architecting and re-platforming their application to a Kubernetes native application, using best practices and sound designs.
Drive organization towards a dev ops model
Identify technical obstacles early and work to find creative solutions and able to troubleshoot complex hardware and software defects with low supervision
Comprehensive knowledge on capabilities and constraints of technology platforms with a focus on micro-service and cloud technologies, PAAS with experience designing, implementing and supporting applications in Kubernetes or Docker.
Share best practices and improve processes within and across sprint teams, and mentor more junior team members
Maintain records to document program development and revisions
Drive proactive monitoring of transactions and efficiency, drive improvements through data analytics
Evaluate and implement High Availability elements in platform, architecting highly scalable and distributed microservices that can process our large customer data sets in real-time.
Supervise pipeline management and branching/merging strategies
Conduct design and implementation reviews to ensure compliance with standards
Focus on continuous improvement practices as required to meet quality / time to market imperatives
Will leverage candidate's knowledge of full-stack development



Qualifications
--- Typically 10+ years professional experience with a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent education and experience and 8+ years with a Master's Degree.
--- Significant Microservices architecture experience for embedded applications, preferably in the telecommunications domain with strong understanding of microservice architectures, principles and patterns
--- Passionate leadership to educate and direct teams for the micro services realization
--- Operations Experience (ops or even devops work) with good experience in an Architect role
--- Deep understanding of micro-service and cloud technologies, PAAS with experience designing, implementing and supporting applications in Kubernetes and Docker containers
--- Proficient CI/CD Knowledge (Jenkins, GoCD, Sonar, JUnit, Maven, Git - or equivalents of these) and static analysis tools
--- Working knowledge of API interactions and database design with noSQL technologies including MongoDB or Datastax(Cassandra) as well as experience with Oracle, mySQL
--- Highly Experienced with UNIX system scripting (Python, bash, ssh, shell, scripting, etc)
--- Proficient in Java and Spring framework or similar stack.
--- Experience with enterprise messaging with ActiveMQ, Tibco, and Kafka
--- Experience with Splunk, Swagger API, Postman
--- Experience with Agile software development lifecycles and software development
--- Strong people skills--Effective communication, interpersonal and analytical skills.
--- Ability to work in a highly collaborative and empowered environment
--- Self-starter, can-do attitude a must in a fast-moving business and technical environment.
--- Effective communication & collaboration skills.

Preferred
--- Scaling knowledge of Cassandra, Elasticsearch, MongoDB, Neo4j, HDFS.
--- Experience in developing secure solutions
--- Workflow processing experience using Camunda or like-BPM
--- Open source contributor.
--- Certified in Kubernetes/Docker, Mongo
--- Angular



Education
Bachelors or Equivalent
Masters or Equivalent



Alternate Location: US-Colorado-Littleton

Requisition #: 214305

This job may require successful completion of an online assessment. A brief description of the assessments can be viewed on our website at http://find.centurylink.jobs/testguides/

EEO Statement

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Disclaimer

The above job definition information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed by employees within this classification. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. Job duties and responsibilities are subject to change based on changing business needs and conditions.

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