AWS Full Stack Developer

Description

AWS, Full Stack Developer

Hitachi Consulting is the digital solutions and professional services business of Hitachi Ltd., a global technology leader. Hitachi Consulting is a catalyst for positive business change, propelling organizations to drive innovation and to accelerate digital transformation. We have particular strengths in the domains of ‘Digital’, ‘Internet of Things’, ‘Analytics’ and ERP and provide a range of supporting services (industry expertise, project management, process design, change management) required to achieve success.

Hitachi Consulting helps organizations leverage data as a strategic asset to develop new revenue streams, innovate faster and respond to global dynamics with insight and agility. We collaborate with clients to create solutions that help maximize operational efficiency and deliver measurable, sustainable business results.

Hitachi, Ltd. (TSE: 6501), headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is focusing on Social Innovation Business combining its operational technology, information technology and products. The company's consolidated revenues for fiscal 2018 (ended March 31, 2019) totaled 9,480.6 billion yen ($85.4 billion), and the company has approximately 296,000 employees worldwide. Hitachi delivers digital solutions utilizing Lumada in five sectors including Mobility, Smart Life, Industry, Energy and IT, to increase our customer's social, environmental and economic value. For more information on Hitachi, please visit the company's website at http://www.hitachi.com.

Location: San Francisco

This AWS Full Stack Developer will be a key contributor to our Product Engineering Services practice and will have the below responsibilities: 

• Work with product owners to understand desired application capabilities and testing scenarios
• Continuously improve software engineering practices
• Work within and across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support technical solutions across a full-stack of development tools and technologies
• Proven experience and knowledge of the AWS cloud computing platform, its many services - including but not limited to: Lambda, S3 (Object Storage), VPC (Virtual Private Cloud), EC2, EBS (Block Storage under high I/O), ELB/Elastic Beanstalk (load-balancing and autoscaling), SQS (messaging), Cloud Formation for AWS Orchestration, Alternative Queuing Platforms, CloudWatch and RedShift.
• Write unit tests and automated acceptance tests.
• Design test protocols to provide high levels of confidence in software’s stability, usability, and security.
• Provide development time estimates, constraints, and risks/liabilities.
• Understand and implement the stated requirements for software.
• Deliver software within given time constraints.
• Plan and prioritize development tasks in order to achieve objectives
• Perform other related duties as assigned 

Qualifications

Required Qualifications:

• Demonstrated success in actively contributing to large consulting projects.
• 3+ years of experience with Cloud, Infrastructure as a Service, Platform as a service; micro-services architecture and architecture models is required.
• 5+ years of experience in full life-cycle of software development or methodology using Agile Scrum/Kanban etc., requirements analysis, design, development, testing and implementation 
• APIs, JSON, REST, and other relevant W3C open standards;
• Expertise working with AWS Cloud (EC2, ECS, Lambda functions etc)
• Knowledge of object-relational mapping (ORM)
• Cloud Computing, Linux, Hadoop, MapReduce, Spark, Hbase, Kudu, and NoSQL platforms in general
• Knowledge of: Micro-Services, JavaScript, AJAX, jQuery, Nodejs, Reactjs, Angular
• Relational database platforms, database design, and SQL
• Able to handle and prioritize many tasks at once. Ability to comfortably work across multiple technical areas simultaneously or as need arises. Must be comfortable with unexpected work load and priority changes.
• Excellent knowledge of Linux/Unix systems and an in-depth understanding of networking protocols
• Experience writing Unix Shell and SQL scripting
• Must be comfortable working with source control (GIT, GIT bash, etc)  and unit testing
• Fluent in either SQL, HIve scripting Experience working with automation tools, Cloud management tools
• Knowledge of federated authentication and authorization models
• Demonstrates strong analytical and communication skills
• Demonstrates strong customer service orientation

• Experience with Swagger for API definition
• Good understanding Unit testing frameworks like Mocha, Jasmine etc.
• Good understanding of code analyzers for Test driven development 
• Cloud methodologies and architecture (IaaS, PaaS), automation, orchestration

Travel: Travel up to 75% at times. Typical travel requires consultants to be at the client location Monday-Thursday and possible remotely as projects progress.

What can Hitachi Consulting offer you?

Hitachi Consulting is about community and having fun at work. We compete with the tier one consulting firms while having a close-knit, team-oriented, growth-oriented culture. To preserve this unique culture our people actively participate in bi-monthly social events as well as local volunteering, and community event activities throughout the year. Hitachi consultants enjoy the growth that comes from keeping their skills on exciting projects within a wide range of industries.

If you need a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job at Hitachi, please send the nature of request and contact information accommodations@hitachiconsulting.com. Queries other than accommodation requests will not be responded to.

Hitachi Consulting Is an Equal Opportunity Employer M/F/D/V

If you need a reasonable accommodation to apply for a job at Hitachi, please send the nature of request and contact information accommodations@hitachiconsulting.com. Queries other than accommodation requests will not be responded to.