Application Support - Advanced
BC Forward

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Application Support - Advanced
BCforward is currently seeking a highly motivated "Application Support - Advanced" for a Hybrid (3 days Onsite 2 days remote) opportunity in Houston, TX!

Position Title: Application Support - Advanced
Location: Houston, TX (Hybrid Model 3 days from onsite & 2 days remote)
Expected Duration: 3 Months Contract to Hire


Responsibilities include, but not limited to:

* Participate in the design of build, refactor major software components that improve the availability, resilience, performance of our system
* Design, code, test, and deliver software to automate manual operational work
* Support incident responses, blameless postmortem, design and implement the product improvement to prevent incident reoccurring
* Implement application patterns in support of better service level objectives
* Implement self-healing, resiliency patterns
* Exercise failure cases regularly to validate resilience assumptions
* Engage with development teams throughout the life cycle of incident, ensure lessons learned are translated into automated or process adjust responses to help develop software for reliability and scale, ensuring minimal refactoring or changes
* Code, test and deliver software to automate manual operational work
* Troubleshoot incidents, participate in blameless post-incident evaluations and ensure permanent closure of incidents
* Identify application patterns and analytics in support of better service level objectives
* Analyze self-healing and resiliency patterns and contribute to software which can use these outcomes
* Implement best in class monitoring frameworks to accomplish end to end flow monitoring and noiseless alerting

Requirements & Qualifications:
* Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience in a software engineering discipline
* 2+ years of hands-on software engineer experience
* Curious about solving resilience problems in run time at scale
* Expertise in at least one technology stack designing, coding, testing, and delivering software
* Knowledge in a few of the infrastructure components (e.g. routers, load balancers, cloud products, container systems, compute, storage, and networks)
* Experience in cloud native, distributed application design and implementation
* Demonstrated communication and ownership skills
* Debugging and trouble shooting skills
* Collaboration with a diversified high-performing multi-location team
* Excellent analytical, interpersonal and communication skills
* Understanding of SRE methodologies/practices

Required Skills:
Technical expertise of 4+ years the below areas, overall IT experience of 6+ years
* Proficiency in Java / JVM based system design & implementation
* Infrastructure knowledge required including Unix, Windows, networking, and scripting (e.g. Perl / Python)
* Experience with orchestration tools like Jenkins CI/CD, or Jules
* Experience following source control best practices: Git/bitbucket
* Experience with database development (MySQL / Oracle)
* Understanding of architecture and design across distributed systems
Prefer Skills:
* Knowledge of SpringBoot / Microservices architectur
* Experience using Pivotal Cloud Foundry
* Experience with Public Cloud: AWS
* Enterprise platforms using Big Data tools and technologies (e.g. Hadoop, Spark, Hive, Impala, Dremio, Nifi, Ignite)
* Experience setting up & building solutions for Containers e.g Kubernetes

About BCforward:
BCforward began as IT business solutions and staffing firm. Founded in 1998, BCforward has grown with our customers' needs into a full-service personnel solution's organization. Headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, BCforward also operates numerous delivery centers across North America and India. We are currently the largest consulting firm and largest MBE certified firm in Indiana. Our uninterrupted growth has allowed BCforward to deliver uniquely configured IT staffing and project solutions for over years of catering to our customer's specific needs. BCforward currently maintains a team of over 5000 global resources. With our additional brand, Stafforward, together we have the capabilities to deliver services for a variety of industries in both public and private sectors which allows us to address your most challenging needs.

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This posting is not an offer of employment. All applicants must be authorized to work in the United States and willing cooperate with a background check and drug screen, to the extent permitted by federal and local laws up to, and including both criminal and financial reviews. The submission of intentionally false or fraudulent information in response to this job posting shall render the applicant ineligible for the position. BCforward is an equal opportunity employer. Any subsequent offer of employment shall be considered employment at will regardless of the anticipated assignment duration.

Interested candidates please send resume in Word format Please reference job code 179524 when responding to this ad.

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