Principal Software / Systems Engineer
- Employer
- Liberty Mutual Insurance
- Location
- Dover, New Hampshire
- Salary
- Not Specified
- Closing date
- Aug 26, 2019
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- Category
- IT
- Job Type
- Not Specified
- Career Level
- Not Specified
Job Details
Principal Software Developer
Liberty Mutual has an opportunity for a Principal Software Developer who is knowledgeable across many technology domains. This person will work on our API Management team within our IT Hosting SecureDevOps Platforms organization.
The API Management team enables development teams by providing a stable, secure, easily consumable, and cost optimized platform for APIs to be designed, developed, published, secured, managed, measured, consumed and reused.
This role on the API management team will focus on the platform management and expansion. This encompasses platform and portal upgrades, troubleshooting, extending to additional AWS regions, and product research. Candidates will need to demonstrate the willingness to take on many different types of tasks and technologies and ability thrive in an environment of quickly changing and relatively complex technologies.
Job Responsibilities:
Performs the following moderately complex to complex activities:
Installation and Configuration of Apigee platform and associated components.
Leverage CI/CD pipelines and methodologies, including automated builds, deployments and integration/unit testing for installations and updates.
Excellent analytical, problem solving, and communication and collaboration skills.
General knowledge of agile software development concepts and processes.
Must be proactive, demonstrate initiative and be a logical thinker.
Contributes to technical alternatives.
Develops production support documentation.
Interacts with customers and development team to gather and define requirements
Works within the team on iterative development that delivers a high-quality product.
Executes all levels of testing (System, Integration, and Regression)
Analyzes user stories for validity and feasibility
Mentor new developers and junior developers. Identify and recommend appropriate continuous improvement opportunities. Completes other project work or tasks as assigned
Participates in service desk and on-call rotations
Highly competitive applicants will have knowledge of and experience with:
An API management platform (Apigee, Mulesoft, AWS gateway, etc.)
Systems administration
AWS infrastructure (e.g. ELB, EC2, cloud formation (CFTs), autoscaling, launch configurations)
General networking concepts
Products and tools used for automated delivery to AWS (pipelines, CI/CD).
Scripting and programming experience in automating of Infrastructure installation and upgrades
Qualifications:
Bachelor's or Master's degree in technical or business discipline or equivalent experience, technical degree preferred.
Generally 8+ years of professional experience.
Highly proficient in software engineering languages and tools; ability to develop on multiple platforms.
Strong negotiation, facilitation and consensus building skills.
Strong oral and written communication skills; presentation skills.
Extensive knowledge of the following: IT concepts, strategies, methodologies.
Versed in diverse technologies and new technical architecture principles and concepts. Extensive knowledge in layered systems architectures solutions and designs and shared software concepts.
Business function(s) and I/T industry business issues; extensive knowledge of business operations, strategies and objectives. Strong in multiple programming languages and tools.
Extensive understanding of agile software development concepts and processes.
Must be proactive, demonstrate initiative and be a logical thinker.
Extensive consultative skills, including the ability to understand and apply customer requirements, including drawing out unforeseen implications and making recommendations for design, the ability to define design reasoning, understanding potential impacts of design requirements.
Extensive understanding of backlog tracking, burndown metrics, and incremental delivery.
Strong collaboration, prioritization, and adaptability skills required.
We take care of our employees
We strongly believe that a great job should keep you happy both at workand in life. Thats why we offer:
Workplace Flexibility
Wellness Perks
Collaborative workspaces
Sit/stand desks
Career development, programs and classes
Diversity & Inclusion programs
Commuter Benefits
Adoption Assistance
College Savings Plan
Education reimbursement
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Company
When people have a sense of security, they are free to relax, venture out, and live their lives. This is the feeling Liberty Mutual brings to the world every day. Founded in 1912, we are a global leader in property and casualty insurance, focused on protecting and preserving the lives and dreams of customers in more than 30 countries. With over 50,000 employees throughout the world, we offer you the chance to work for an evolving, growing company with a deep sense of humanity and a commitment to diversity and philanthropy. Join our team and go to work knowing that what you do matters. Because really it does.
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