Sr. Application Developer

Senior Application Developer - 24910 Our client is one of the largest retailers in the world. Yet their IT department is nimble and dynamic and works with cutting-edge technologies. Currently, they are looking to hire a Senior Application Developer to join their technology team. This position is offered in Pleasanton, CA, open for REMOTE FOR NOW. Position Purpose: As a Senior Application developer CTH/contractor position in my team, the person should be a fast learner, self-starter with strong inter-personal communication skills. Candidate must have

• Adept at performing Root-cause analysis of complex problems involving multiple parties, networks, hardware, and software that relates to distributed cloud based systems concerning scaling , performance or network issues.
• Diagnose, isolate, and debug production issues to quickly resolve customer-facing incidents.
• Performs proactive analysis and troubleshooting to predict and prevent production incidents
• 3+ years' experience in a technical support role. Act as Level 3 support on 24/7 on-call rotation . As needed act as an escalation point for Engineering Support and escalates to Engineering team for assistance and troubleshooting.
• 4+ years of experience of working in Cloud based systems preferably Microsoft Azure or Google Cloud in order of preference.
• Should have strong systems background and be conversant with Application Development Technologies. Provides recommendations for and help troubleshoot Java based systems including Core Java , JVM internals, Garbage collection , Memory management, Unix OS, Database(RDBMS/NoSQL), Apache Kafka.
• Should have good understanding of Networking : Understanding and performing TCP dumps, snoop, and other network sniffers. Understands and applies knowledge of most protocols (TCP/IP, HTTP, UDP, etc.) and types of Load Balancers.
• 4+ years of experience of working in Cloud based systems preferably Microsoft Azure
• Working knowledge of Web related technologies including DNS, HTTP, HTTPS and SSL Certificates
• 2+ Experience in Python and Shell scripting.
• Conversant with APM tools like App Dynamic , Data Dog or Dynatrace in order of preference.
• Experience with Log Analytics systems like Azure Analytics and Splunk in order of preference.
• Experience with Jenkins based CI/CD processes for release management.
• 4-year degree (Computer Science, Information Systems, or related functional field)

• Experience of working on Analytical Data River/Lake systems like Snowflake will be highly preferred.
• Should be able to design new tools to monitor and smart alerts that help discover failures/issues in a timely fashion and work with engineers to identify root cause and fix issues.
• Experience with ServiceNow or similar ITSM Service Management tools
• Working experience in an e-Commerce retail environment.
• Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef and Puppet