Software Development Engineer III

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We are Optimum, a leader in the fast‑paced world of connectivity, and we're on the hunt for enthusiastic professionals to join our team! We understand that connectivity isn’t just a luxury anymore – it empowers lives, fuels businesses, and drives innovation. A career at Optimum means you’ll be enabling progress and enhancing lives by providing reliable, high‑speed connectivity solutions that keep the world connected.

We owe our success to our amazing product, commitment to our people and the connections we make in every community.

If you are resourceful, collaborative, team‑oriented and passionate about delivering consistent excellence, Optimum is the Company for you!

Optimum is a leading provider of Mobile, Broadband (DOCSIS, Fiber) and Video services in the United States. The Product Development organization is responsible for the technology enablement and development of these technologies for our customers along with the tools used by our teams to support them. Reporting to the Engineering manager, the SDE III will participate as part of a highly skilled software development team to build the tools, processes and automation frameworks that will improve productivity, drive efficiency, and ensure the quality and reliability of our software products.

We are looking for a passionate and engaged individual who is willing to take on the challenge of transforming software development at a Fortune 500 company and building the tools that will allow our development teams to Go Fast!

• Contribute to our software development tools roadmap, accelerating our development teams.
• Execute on implementing our tools roadmap that includes a CI/CD pipeline that will be leveraged by the software development teams across the organization to support our broadband, video, mobile and customer support applications.
• Implement tools to identify, document and track software defects. Work closely with the development teams to resolve issues and ensure timely fixes.
• Introduce capabilities to do effective A/B testing of releases across test populations.
• Lead process improvement initiatives to enhance testing practices, tools, and metrologies.
• Implement tools to monitor and report on key quality metrics, including defect rates, test coverage and test execution progress.
• Analyze metrics to identify areas for improvement. Leverage developer tools and test automation to transform our software release processes and enable the development teams to get capabilities to customers faster.
• Use and customize out of the box tools to instrument and monitor systems.
• Contribute to a structured knowledge base that allows teams to create, maintain and extend documentation for all our developer tools and processes.
• Establish and gain acceptance for Key Results indicated by our development pipeline and automation test frameworks.
• Use prototypes and proof of concepts as the primary tools for deep and detailed explorations of architecture and software designs.
• Go‑to advocate for developer tools in the organization.
• Continue to make Optimum a Developer Friendly Environment.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• 5–7 years of hands‑on experience in Dev Ops, Git Ops, software development, and automation.
• Expertise in programming languages such as Python, Java, or Golang.
• Proficient in the Google Cloud environment.
• In‑depth understanding of software development methodologies and modern Dev Sec Ops  practices.
• Proficiency in automating test cases (unit, functional, and end‑to‑end tests).
• Proven experience implementing and optimizing CI/CD pipelines (e.g., Git Lab CI/CD, Git Hub Actions).
• Experience with IaC tools like Terraform/Ansible.
• Skilled in developing and maintaining test automation frameworks using tools such as Selenium or Cypress.
• Knowledgeable in monitoring and observability tools like Prometheus, Grafana, and Splunk.
• Familiarity…