Job Description
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As an Application Reliability Engineer, you’ll tap into your passion for finding and fixing inefficiencies to solve our reliability and performance issues. In our Agile environment, you’ll focus on availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change and problem management, monitoring, emergency response and capacity planning of our services. Your projects will deliver enhanced infrastructure, development, and deployment automation at Discover. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.
Responsibilities
1. Analyze, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production
2. Tends to Associate Application Engineers by providing learning tasks as well as work related tasks, directs the work of Senior Associate Application Engineers, and helps them continue to grow
3. Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills
4. Has an oversight on design decisions and guides team to achieve key results for products assigned to them
5. Remediates issues using engineering principles and creates proactive design solutions for potential failures
6. Contributes to and leads technology communities at Discover
Minimum Qualifications
At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:
7. Bachelors – Computer Science or related
8. Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related
9. Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale
Preferred Qualifications
Bonus Points If You Have:
10. Experience with Chef/Ansible and Terraform.
11. Solid understanding of Networking and Linux fundamentals
12. Ability to program (structured and OOP) using one or more high-level languages, such as Python, Java or Ruby and shell scripting.
13. Postgres/Redis maintenance knowledge on AWS.
14. Ability to problem solve in a fast-paced, high-stakes environment.
15. Experience with alerting and monitoring tools (AppD, Kibana, DataDog) and building standards.
16. OCP/Kubernetes experience.
17. Experience as part of an Agile engineering or development team.
18. Strong experience with CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins or similar; Git/GitHub; Artifactory.
19. Proven skills in high availability and scalability design, as well as performance monitoring.
20. CKA or CKAD certification is a plus
External applicants will be required to perform a technical interview.
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Application Deadline:
The application window for this position is anticipated to close on Apr-08-2024. We encourage you to apply as soon as possible. The posting may be available past this date, but it is not guaranteed.
All Discover employees place our customers at the very center of our work. To deliver on our promises to our customers, each of us contribute every day to a culture that values compliance and risk management.
Discover is committed to a diverse and inclusive workplace. Discover is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status, or other legally protected status.