Principal Java DevOps Engineer

at  Rackspace

Job Summary: Recently we entered in a partnership with one of our preferred to clients for a large-scale migration into the GCP Cloud. This team’s code receives and processes millions of requests per second in a large-scale distributed system performing content aggregation, indexing, and relevance ranking. You will be working on coding, testing, and debugging this system running in a k8s environment, where there is zero downtime worldwide.
Work Location: USA or Canada-Remote

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field of study. Master’s degree is preferred.
• Prefer - Google Associate Cloud Engineer Certification or other Google Cloud Professional level certification.
• Minimum of 8+ years developing applications in core Java.
• In-depth knowledge of algorithms, data structures, and systems
• E2E software development lifecycle experience, including building and maintaining production grade software.
• Excellent verbal and writing communication skills with the English language.
• Operability experience (logging, monitoring, alerting, debugging).
• Prefer - Experience with Cassandra or Spanner
• Prefer - Containerization knowledge (Kubernetes, Docker) experience.
• Prefer - Experience with DevOps and infrastructure as code (terraform, CI/CD, build tools – maven/gradle).
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The following information is required by pay transparency legislation in the following states: CA, CO, HI, NY, and WA. This information applies only to individuals working in these states.

• The anticipated starting pay range for Colorado is: $180,300 - $264,440.
• The anticipated starting pay range for the states of Hawaii and New York (not including NYC) is: $191,900 - $281,490.
• The anticipated starting pay range for California, New York City and Washington is: $210,000 - $308,000.

Unless already included in the posted pay range and based on eligibility, the role may include variable compensation in the form of bonus, commissions, or other discretionary payments. These discretionary payments are based on company and/or individual performance and may change at any time. Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location. Information on benefits offered is here.#LI-MF1 #LI-Remote #LI-JR1

• Develop scalable and innovative robust Java code for content aggregation as well as for information indexing, retrieval, processing, and ranking.
• Build, enhance, optimize, and deploy tools, workflows, systems to process textual data for extraction of relevant information.
• Collaborate with team members and stakeholders, ensuring clear understanding of technical requirements and project goals.
• Write detailed design documents, develop comprehensive automated tests, and coordinate automated deployments.