Platform Engineering Analyst

FedEx
Memphis, United States of America
3 days ago

Role details

Contract type
Permanent contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Working hours
Regular working hours
Languages
English
Experience level
Senior
Compensation
$ 16K

Job location

Memphis, United States of America

Tech stack

Agile Methodologies
Computing Platforms
Azure
Cloud Computing
Cloud Engineering
Cloud Foundry
Information Systems
Continuous Integration
Data Security
Software Design Patterns
Disaster Recovery
Distributed Systems
Github
Java Database Connectivity
Java Message Service (JMS)
JSON
NoSQL
OAuth
Oracle
Scrum
Reliability Engineering
Openid Connect
Ansible
Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP)
Software Construction
Software Engineering
SQL Databases
Data Streaming
Web Services Description Language
XML
Google Cloud Platform
Okta
Datastax
Spring Cloud
System Availability
Spring-boot
Event Driven Architecture
Information Technology
Cassandra
Kafka
REST
Terraform
TIBCO (Software)
Jenkins
Confluent
Microservices

Job description

We are seeking a highly skilled technologist to fill a Sr. Platform Engineering Analyst position in the Middleware Architecture team to lead the design, engineering, and modernization of enterprise messaging and streaming infrastructure. In this role, candidates will play a critical part in building robust internal tools, automating deployment pipelines, and driving the transition from legacy messaging systems to modern, cloud-native streaming platforms. Activities will include:

  • Developing, engineering, and maintaining high-performance Java based messaging tools to support and optimize the overarching Messaging and Streaming Infrastructure.
  • Architecting and automating CI/CD deployment pipelines for messaging tools while leveraging Ansible to automate routing operational and messaging support tasks.
  • Setting up, configuring and managing highly scalable messaging and streaming environments within Google Cloud Platform (GCP) utilizing Infrastructure as Code (Terraform) and automation tools (Ansible).
  • Leading the strategic migration of existing legacy Java Message Service (JMS) workloads and configurations to modern scalable solutions primarily using Google Pub/Sub and Apache Kafka (or commercially supported implementations from Confluent).

Required Technical Skills

Messaging & Streaming Platforms

  • Strong experience designing and supporting enterprise messaging and event-driven architectures
  • Experience with:
  • Apache Kafka
  • Confluent Kafka
  • Google Cloud Pub/Sub
  • Java Message Service (JMS)
  • Cloud Software Group (formerly TIBCO) Enterprise Message Service (preferred)

Software Engineering

  • Strong Java/J2EE development experience
  • Spring Boot framework
  • RESTful API development
  • Microservices architecture
  • JSON, XML, SOAP, and WSDL
  • Event-Driven Architecture design patterns

Cloud & Infrastructure

Experience designing and supporting cloud-native applications utilizing:

  • Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Pivotal Cloud Foundry (PCF)

Requirements

  • Terraform (Infrastructure as Code)
  • Ansible automation
  • CI/CD pipeline development
  • GitHub
  • Jenkins

Data & Security

  • SQL and JDBC
  • Oracle databases
  • NoSQL databases (DataStax/Cassandra preferred)
  • OAuth 2.0
  • OpenID Connect
  • Okta (preferred)

Communication & Leadership

  • Demonstrated ability to lead complex enterprise technical initiatives.
  • Experience defining enterprise messaging architecture and engineering standards.
  • Ability to collaborate effectively with Architects, Product Managers, Software Engineers, Infrastructure Engineering, Reliability Engineering, Business stakeholders, and vendor partners.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to communicate complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences.
  • Experience coordinating work across multiple Agile teams and vendor organizations., * Enterprise Messaging Platform Architecture
  • Cloud-native messaging and event streaming platforms
  • Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)
  • Enterprise automation using Ansible
  • Reliability Engineering and Software Engineering best practices
  • Enterprise modernization initiatives
  • Distributed systems architecture
  • High availability, resiliency, and disaster recovery design
  • Performance engineering for messaging platforms
  • Technical leadership across multiple Scrum teams
  • Agile, Scrum, and SAFe methodologies

Minimum Education

Bachelor's Degree/equivalent in computer science, engineering, or information systems and/or equivalent formal training or work experience.

Minimum Experience

Three to four (3-4) years' work experience in Platform Engineering or related field. Familiarity with conducting end-to end analyses, including data gathering and requirements specification, processing, analysis, and presentations. General understanding of the industry, competitors, and evolving technologies. Experience as a member of multi-functional project teams. Strong oral and written communication skills.

Benefits & conditions

USA: $7,094.23/mo - $15,607.31/mo, CO: $7,094.23/mo - $14,957.01/mo, CA: $7,488.36/mo - $12,533.14/mo, NJ: $7,488.36/mo - $11,981.37/mo, ME, OH & VT: $7,488.36/mo - $13,006.09/mo, MN: $7,488.36/mo - $14,306.70/mo, IL & NV: $7,488.36/mo - $14,957.01/mo, MD, NY, VA & WA: $7,488.36/mo - $15,607.31/mo, MA: $7,882.48/mo - $15,607.31/mo, RI: $8,670.73/mo - $14,306.70/mo, CT: $8,670.73/mo - $14,957.01/mo, DC & HI: $9,064.85/mo - $14,957.01/mo, NYC: $9,064.85/mo - $15,607.31/mo

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