Senior Software Engineer, Automation and Cloud - remote

Posted 3 years ago
The Senior Software Engineer’s job is to develop automation software to deploy our UKG Pro product suites, serving critical internal developer and production needs thousands of times each day. The deployment automation software is developed as a full-stack solution and executes in our private data center as well as the Public Cloud. The employee in this job will deliver incremental features monthly, and be expected to document, test, release, and support their implementation.

Primary/Essential Duties and Key Responsibilities:
•Be a trusted member of a software development team, interacting with teammates daily to drive productivity and build morale
•Develop and release software features and fixes multiple times each month
•Provide technical support to customers that use the released software
•Generate appropriate test automation to validate software function
•Build the software releases and invoke test automations by using automated CI/CD pipelines
•Use a Lean/Agile framework to visualize progress within the software lifecycle
•Attend a brief daily meeting to synchronize the team priorities and communicate progress/barriers
•Regularly research and propose process and technical innovations

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:
•BS degree in Computer Science or related field
•Full-stack experience (Angular/React, SQL/Mongo, C#/Java, Ruby/Python)
•5+ years successfully delivering enterprise software solutions, using an object-oriented programming language
•Experience developing test automation throughout the software lifecycle, leveraged by CI/CD pipelines where appropriate
•Public Cloud technologies and techniques

Preferred Qualifications:
•Experience with DevOps solutions such as Ansible/Terraform
•Proficiency using JSON-based REST APIs
•Experience with modern technologies and practices like VMs, containers, and micro-services
•Experience using Jira story entry/tracking system or equivalent