Senior Software Engineer

Connect Centric specializes in helping our customers solve their most complex challenges. Since 2009 we have been a trusted expert and confidante to organizations in the federal, non-profit, and private sectors, providing best-in-class strategy and technology-related services and solutions. We are looking for an experienced Senior Software Engineer to join our team.

Responsibilities:

• Stays current on industry and technological advances and best practices for assigned areas and is able to articulate this knowledge, including languages, frameworks, techniques, industry trends
• Work with customers and other architects to propose and implement the technology that meets the business needs 
• Participates in the full application life cycle from technical design to development and from testing to support 
• Drive automation at all stages of software development, release, operations, and maintenance
• Manage CI/CD tools and processes, provide technical guidance, and educate Development teams on CI/CD and automation toolsets and processes.
• Design and build key architectural components and integrations 
• Evaluate, recommend, improve, and build existing code base to maximize efficiencies
• Integrate third-party APIs and web services
• Work with DevOps to manage environments and release quality solutions
• Produce detailed design documentation, unit test plans, and well-documented code artifacts

Qualifications:

• At least 6-8 years of IT Experience
• Good interpersonal skills and communication with all levels of management
• Able to multitask, prioritize, and manage time efficiently
• Strong analytical and effective problem-solving skills.
• Proficiency in popular coding languages, including Python, Java, and frameworks or systems such as AngularJS and Git
• At least 5+ years of full-stack development experience in AWS Cloud environments, such as Lambda, DynamoDB, RDS, CloudFormation, EC2, ALB, IAM, and SQS 
• Fundamental understanding of cloud computing concepts and fundamentals (serverless, scalability, high availability, and durability)
• Experience with integrating Kubernetes or other containerized ecosystems
• Experience with microservices
• Working experience with CI / CD Tools & DevOps Culture

Education:

• Bachelor’s degree in CS, engineering, software engineering, or a related field.
• Hands-on agile scrum methodology experience is a must
• Certifications: 
  Cloud Practitioner (must-have)
  Solution Architect (good to have)
  AWS Developer (good to have)
  DevOps (good to have)