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: Remote Canada

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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• 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.