Senior Software Developer (Architect)

Company: Siemens Industry, Inc.

Location: 1000 Deerfield Pkwy, Buffalo Grove, IL 60089

Position Title: Senior Software Developer (Architect)

Salary: $221,388- $237,700 / Year

Hours: Monday – Friday, 8:00 am to 5:00 pm, 40 Hours/Week

Summary of Duties: Architect, design, implement and deliver platform components and new functionality for both on-prem and SaaS product offering. Develop prototypes, high level detailed designs, Java implementation, automated tests, and performance and resilience tests. Work collaboratively with application development teams and other platform users in order to understand their needs, improve the platform as a product, and educate and ensure consistent and best-practice use of the platform. Participate in platform strategy and new technology selection and adoption. Help to foster an environment of open communication, creative thinking, problem solving and cohesive team effort. Cloud infrastructure expert; provides guidance to engineers on Cloud infrastructure and architecture; and involved in research and development of highly scalable and resilient cloud infrastructure. Conduct Research and Proof of concepts on the cutting-edge Cloud Native technologies and help leadership on decision making. Cloud Security Lead; reviews and guides engineers on the areas on security and compliance in the cloud and SaaS products. Responsible for leadership of the DevOps processes; POC and Implementation Leadership of GitOPs and Zero downtime upgrades. Responsible for design and architecture of transformation of legacy on-prem applications to a fully functional multi-tenant SaaS application. Remote work permitted.

Qualifications: The position requires a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science or a related field and 8 years of experience in the job offered, or as a Software Engineer, Lead Engineer, Programmer, or an acceptable alternate occupation. Alternatively, the position requires a Master’s degree in Computer Information Systems, Computer Science or a related field and 6 years of experience in the job offered, or as a Software Engineer, Lead Engineer, Programmer, or an acceptable alternate occupation. The position requires experience with the following: experience architecting, designing and developing complex, configurable, scalable enterprise software applications; creating concrete, practical designs with the right tradeoffs and phasing; creating and communicating designs with good design, scalability and maintainability; knowledge of relevant technologies, including Core and Advanced Java, multi-threading frameworks such as Spring, asynchronous messaging, Oracle materialized views and advanced join queries, data modeling, and RESTful interfaces; understanding of the architectural principles for cloud-based platforms including SaaS, Paas, Multi-tenancy, infrastructure as code and continuous availability; experience with unit testing, code coverage, performance profiling and debugging complex Java applications; experience working in an agile environment; extensive experience with AWS services and architecture; proficiency in containerization technologies such as Docker and orchestration with Kubernetes; strong knowledge of infrastructure as code tools like Terraform; experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible and ytt; hands-on experience with GitOps practices and tools like Flux CD; proficiency in CI/CD tools, particularly Gitlab-CI; knowledge of DevSecOps principles and practices; expertise in configuring and managing Nginx; strong monitoring and observability skills using Prometheus and Grafana; practical knowledge of configuring Kafka node exporter in Kubernetes, practical experience configuring Nginx as Ingres controller using AWS network balancer; extensive experience with AWS VPC; practical experience architecting multi-tenant SaaS offering; experience with integrating Hazelcast into the framework architecture and its implementation; in-depth knowledge of Kafka security configuration. Remote work permitted. Will accept any combination of an education and experience evaluation from a reputable evaluation service deemed to be equivalent to a related U.S. degree.