Production Engineer

Role: Production Engineer with Java/J2EE/ DevOps, Api, spring, Microservice with Global payment systems Exp
Location: Buffalo, NY (4 contract positions) (Hybrid)

Requirements:
*Minimum 5 years of experience in production, or a related area, preferably within the financial services industry
*Available to work weekends and shift patterns (a shift between 8am to 8pm) within the US time zone
*Ability to organize and manage in a crisis
*Ability to quickly learn and understand complex environments
*Familiarity with global payment systems, processes, and technologies
Hybrid work model, onsite several days each week
Core hours of the team is 12:00PM ET – 8:00 PM ET (with some variation, flexibility)

*Essential Skills:
*Experience of managing a wide spectrum of stakeholders and show ability to manage upwards, CICD:
*Hands-on experience of enabling technologies, principles, and practices of Continuous Integration, Delivery, and Deployment (Jenkins, Bamboo, Circle CI or equivalent)
*Hands-on experience of platform and systems architecture – modular monoliths, SOA/micro-services, including enabling tools and technologies (Spring Cloud, Docker, OpenShift, Kubernetes, CloudFoundry, etc.); 
*how to build cloud native applications from scratch and tackling monolithic system estates through the introduction of API's, micro services and gateways Cloud Native Technologies: Kubernetes, Docker, Kafka, Istio Service Mesh JVM tuning and diagnostic for application troubleshooting and performance-optimization
*Traditional Technologies: Bash/Shell, Groovy or Java, Unix/Linux, Jenkins, GitHub
*Distributed system design like micro services, Springboot
*Understanding of messaging Technologies and Caches
*Strong understanding of technology layers in application landscape, storage, OS, network, database, application Demonstrable, excellent, spoken & written communication skills across global organization
*Proven triage capability under pressure, able to make strong priority judgement at runtime balancing contending demands
*Technically inquisitive with progressive interest in modern engineering disciplines and techniques
*Understanding of customers' needs and delivering excellent customer service
*Experience in Agile/ DevOps environment and in assisting in production support