Technical Lead - Production/Application Support at TEKsystems

Description:

This person will be overseeing a Production/Application Support team supporting a large enterprise customer facing application.

Responsible for building outstanding software solutions to drive the success of a business. Build various aspects of the company's infrastructure to power innumerable conversations at scale. Primary Responsibilities: • Maintain the company platform uptime, performance, stability, and scalability • Design, guide, mentor and challenge system architecture and design with others • Develop and maintain a public API • Develop best possible, most robust, and extensible solutions from feature requests • Work with big data technology (Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, etc) • Work with Data Scientists to develop rich value-added features • Work with DBA to create ETL and Data Warehouse system • Work with Operations to automate solutions and increase service reliability • Closely monitor all platform related production systems • Building tools and processes to support analytics, monitoring, machine-learning and data-warehousing platforms. • Define and implement various strategies covering everything from subnets to backups to fog networking/computing configuration and deployments. • Provision, configure, maintain, backup, and monitor onsite and cloud based server resources. • Define and implement deployment strategies for client-facing and internal tool systems. • Continual improvement and fine-tuning of various alerting and monitoring systems. Qualifications: • Experience in software/systems development. • Strong software development background, experience building software systems. • Working knowledge of at least one of the following languages: PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Elixir, Go or comparable. • Strong background in Linux administration. • Strong experience with cloud providers such as AWS, Digital Ocean, Google Cloud, etc. • Strong understanding of IT security best practices. • Experience with automation/configuration software (puppet, ansible), and/or orchestration software (docker swarm, kubernetes, etc). • Understanding of computer networks. • Experience with administration of at production scale.

Skills:

Java, Angular, application support, vulnerability detection, Application Security, technical leadership

Additional Skills & Qualifications:

Experience supporting large financial applications would be a plus. Must work EST hours.

Experience Level:

Intermediate Level

About TEKsystems:

We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company.

The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.