Software Engineer - Observability & OpenTelemetry

Company: Hays Recruitment
Location: Texas City
Posted on: March 9, 2023

Job Description:

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.

A Corporate Travel and Entertainment Card company is seeking Staff Software Engineer - Observability/OpenTelemetry in Austin, TX/ Hybrid.

Role Description

The Observability Telemetry & Monitoring platform team, within PaaS, builds the Observability platform that is used to monitor all of Visa's infrastructure and applications to ensure availability of our site for our customers. Our platforms are extending to the Kubernetes ecosystem, internal cloud as well as Hybrid Cloud platforms at Visa and utilize the latest open-source technologies.
--- Champion resiliency and reliability oriented architectures, patterns and trends through thought leadership and evangelism.
--- Embrace DevOps and Combined Dev + Test engineering transformation to achieve accelerated delivery.
--- Develop components involving event instrumentation, event classification, multi-protocol event handlers, stream processing, pipelining, time series data aggregation and data analytics.
--- Work closely with rest of the development teams to ensure that services and platforms are designed with reliability in mind.
--- Develop tools for reliability of application services - reliability scope includes event detection, monitoring models, reaction strategies and mechanisms to automate service recovery.
--- Evaluate & customize various frameworks including open source software to recommend appropriate choices
--- Design, develop, document and implement new systems, as well as enhancements, modifications, and corrections to existing software with code that complies with design specifications and meets security and Java/J2EE best practices. Coding must adhere to all standards for security, be easily maintainable and have high system performance.

Skills & Requirements
--- 3 or more years of work experience with a Bachelor's Degree or more than 2 years of work experience with an Advanced Degree (e.g. Masters, MBA, JD, MD)
--- Experience in delivering enterprise-class, mission-critical, commercial, and scalable products. In-depth experience in Full Stack development, core J2EE technologies, systems programming as well as n-tier web application development in Java.
--- Must demonstrate knowledge and experience with many of the major Java APIS (e.g. JMS, JPA, JNDI, EJB, RMI, JAX, JMX etc.)
--- Demonstrated programming skills in one or more languages: Java, JavaScript, Go, Python with practical exposure to full stack frameworks.
--- Experience working with Application Servers, dockers/containerization. Knowledge of working with K8s, Openshift and Cloud (AWS/GCP)
--- Knowledge of Continuous Integration, and full SDLC Development tools, including Jenkins, Bamboo, GIT, Maven, Junit, Code review, Static analysis, Security testing
--- Experience working with a variety of Applications Servers and Databases (e.g. Tomcat, Oracle/NoSQL/Mongo/MySQL, Hadoop/HBase)
--- Knowledge with the observability space in general (metrics, logging, tracing, monitoring, alerting) and OpenTelemetry

Why Hays?

You will be working with a professional recruiter who has intimate knowledge of the Information Technology industry and market trends . Your Hays recruiter will lead you through a thorough screening process in order to understand your skills, experience, needs, and drivers. You will also get support on resume writing, interview tips, and career planning, so when there's a position you really want, you're fully prepared to get it.

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Hays is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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