Specialist Software Developer

at  CN

At CN, we work together to move our company—and North America—forward. Be part of our Information & Technology (I&T) team, a critical piece of the engine that keeps us in motion. From enterprise architecture to operational technology, our teams use the agile methodology to automate and digitize our railroad ensuring our operations run optimally and safely and our employees can focus on value-added tasks. You will be able to develop your skills and career in our close-knit, safety-focused culture working together as ONE TEAM. The careers we offer are meaningful because the work we do matters. Join us!..
Job Summary
The Observability team’s mission is to provide CN I&T teams the ability to easily gain insights into system behavior in a complex, rapidly-evolving, distributed environment, and use the insight to deliver a highly available and performant service to CN business, and other stakeholders. We are establishing and building our next-generation Observability solutions and tools on top of industry standard, open-source frameworks. We aim to unify the tools to collect, process, store, and analyze large volumes of telemetry data in real time. You will closely work with a group of accomplished software developers and architects and with open-source technology.
You will take full responsibility of assigned deliverables, align your own workload and focus on key tasks in order to deliver as per service commitment, leveraging expertise and skill set to achieve delivery goals. You will contribute to the whole solution by analyzing functional specifications to identify the best technical design (blueprint) and coding parts of the application. Depending on the assignment, the role may apply in either a Project, Enhancement or Support environment.
Main Responsibilities
Deliver
Write performing quality code to fulfill design and pass code review with minimal number of defects
Apply configuration on development environment when required
Participate in implementing full product in production. Supports developer in providing application versions and details for implementation plan.
Technical Expertise
Interact with Functional Designer to understand requirements for medium solutions. Highlight the technical impacts of the functional design on existing applications based on a detailed analysis.
Deliver technical design and database structure for medium to high application complexity
Maintain technical documentations
Architecture
Contribute in developing the design and coding standards that will apply to the whole practice
Document blueprint based on requirements & functional designs
Participate to the CN Enterprise Architecture
Quality Controls
Ensure Quality KPI are identified, measured and produced ensuring respect of development standards. Ensure right level of testing (Unit & Assembly) is consistent across all projects.
A typical day
Design and build an observability solutions for all I&T verticals
Design and develop tools for metric collection, analysis, and reporting
Educate and lead efforts to improve observability among all teams
Identify and collect the appropriate measurements, and synthesize the correct queries, to show intuitive and insightful visualizations which characterize the behavior of complex systems
You will design and implement monitoring and alerting strategies to enforce application SLOs
Engage with internal customer teams to understand their observability needs and ensure our platform meets those needs
Build tools and design processes that help improve observability and system resiliency
Analyze and identify thresholds and set up dashboards, alerts, detectors that reflect the system’s capacity to provide high quality and secure customer experience
Requirements
Education/Certification/Designation
Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent degree or work experience
Skills and qualifications
Languages and Framework: Java, Python, Javascript/Typescript, Angular, Spring Boot (Good CS fundamentals and be unafraid to jump into unfamiliar code)
Infrastructure as code, such as Terraform and Ansible
Experience with Linux internals, containers and shell scripting
Drawing architectural diagrams, guides and documentation to share across teams
Experience with source code and binary repositories using git and ADO
Automated continuous integration and continuous deployments pipelines using Azure DevOps
Be a team player that practices pair programming, do code reviews and share knowledge
Experience designing, coding distributed systems (asynchronous and synchronous)
Experience designing and developing front-end in Angular
Experience leading engineering project teams and working with cross functional partners to build technical solutions that achieve team and organizational goal

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