Software Engineer
IT Sector
New York, United States
Gross remuneration 130000.00 - 140000.00 $ Yearly
Permanent
Full time
The end client is unable to sponsor or transfer visas for this position; all parties authorized to work in the US without sponsorship are encouraged to apply.
An American Company is seeking an Lead AWS Platform Engineer in Remote / New York City, NY.
Role Description
Hays is seeking a Lead AWS Platform Engineer on behalf of our client, a national fortune 100 company. This is a hybrid role that requires the person to come onsite 1 day per week to the client's office in NYC. Qualified candidates are encouraged to apply.
• Serve as a technology thought leader
• Contribute to the modernizations and innovations of the team
• Champion technology and driving delivery of technical requirements within the Systems Engineering team, including fully automated, self-healing systems
• Drive technical teams towards an “Automate Everything” approach to systems management, and Dev/Ops Release Engineering practices
• Provide technical leadership and guidance to engineering teams with respect to efficient integration of AWS cloud-native technology
• Serve as a technical subject matter expert to systems engineering/DevOps teams
• Drive the development of modern systems design practices
• Build prototypes to validate architecture approaches
• Build prototypes to assess emerging technologies
Skills & Requirements
• Bachelor’s Degree in related field and 10+ years of experience in software/systems engineering or development for mid-size to large corporations.
• 8+ years of working experience as a lead systems engineer
• Significant cloud computing experience (AWS preferred), both migrations and native implementations
• Deep understanding of modern systems design, performance and scale using IaC techniques with Terraform
• Ability to code in any language using any technology stack through self-teaching
• SQL and NoSQL database technologies
• AWS, GCP or Azure services and solution architectures
• REST API design and microservices implementation
• Object-oriented design and common patterns
• Distributed systems
• Docker, Kubernetes, and other container technologies