SRE​/Platform Engineer

• Supporting our newest platforms, on which:
• Cloud native applications are built, leveraging a microservices architecture, Java, Kotlin, Spring Boot, Apache Kafka, MongoDB, Postgres, Docker, Kubernetes and React.
• Big data processing for analytics, BI, and data science are built leveraging Google technologies such as Google Cloud Storage, Google Big Query, Google Composer (Apache Airflow), Looker, Kafka Connect.
• Implementing CI/CD, monitoring and other Dev Ops practices surrounding this platform leveraging technologies such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, Prometheus, Grafana and Mimir.
• Helping other engineers to learn and adopt these technologies and techniques.
• Innovating, driving, and defining high impact technology that creates solutions that positively impacts project delivery.
• Evangelizing and implementing engineering and testing best practices across the company (code reviews, SCM conventions, tools, etc.)

What we’re looking for:

• 5+ years experience with Java, Kotlin and/or Python.
• Strong experience with development in Spring framework.
• Strong experience with both relational (SQL) and No
  
  SQL databases, such as MongoDB.
• Experience with developing RESTful services/APIs using JSON and/or XML.
• Experience with messaging technologies such as Apache Kafka, JMS, and/or ActiveMQ.
• Understanding of containerized application development with Docker.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes.
• 4+ years of Dev Ops experience.
• Strong experience with implementing Dev Ops practices.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure and platforms such as GCP, AWS and/or Azure. GCP is preferred.
• Knowledge of build scripting tools such as Gradle, Ant, Maven, Gulp and Continuous Integration tools such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, and Artifactory.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code principle and tooling such as Pulumi or Terraform.
• Experience with building batch and streaming data pipelines is a plus.
• Strong ability and willingness to learn and adopt new technologies to help JD Finish Line IT be more effective.
• Strong engineering mindset and attention to quality and detail – clean code, automated testing, peer review.
• Ability to collaborate with other software architects and engineers.
• Demonstrated success leading others engineers, providing technical direction and leadership.
• Strong collaboration and team-building skills. Ability to influence, mentor and develop skills in other technologists.