Sr. Application Engineer

DESCRIPTION OF DUTIES Partners with development teams by providing infrastructure assistance and guidance from the early phases of product development, including the development of software and processes to assist developers in infrastructure-related workflows (such as build, release and deployment automation). Designs infrastructure for new and existing products, ensuring all business policies for security, supportability and cost are met, while enabling efficient deployment of products through automated means (such as configuration management and continuous deployment). Participates in and distributes this work amongst the team as necessary. Discover Service Level Indicators, define Service Level Objectives, measure and reduce Toil, and monitor and instrument platforms to measure scalability, reliability and efficiency. Submit software fixes for deficiencies within area of expertise or operational responsibility. Leads and directs efforts for requirements gathering, prototyping, architecting, building and implementing test plans, performing quality reviews, and triaging or fixing operational issues, at all phases of the product lifecycle. Assists project managers in project planning discussions to include the formulation and delivery of cost and labor estimates and options for assigned projects, as well as coaching and reviewing estimates provided more junior members Works with product development and infrastructure teams to define, gather, and document technical and functional requirements for new and existing products, and ensure that the same are being adhered to at all stages of the product lifecycle Designs solutions to provide continuous integration, automated deployment, and configuration management of internally or externally developed applications. Participates in and distributes this work amongst the team as necessary. For more information about the job, please click on the link.