AWS Consulting Software Engineer - 100% Remote (US only)

Our Company

Hitachi Vantara, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., helps data-driven leaders use the value in their data to innovate intelligently and reach outcomes that matter for business and society - what we call a double bottom line. Only Hitachi Vantara combines 100+ years of experience in operational technology (OT) and 60+ years in IT to unlock the power of data from your business, your people and your machines. We help enterprises store, enrich, activate and monetize data for better customer experiences, new revenue streams and lower business costs.

47Lining, a part of Hitachi Vantara is an AWS Premier Consulting Partner with Big Data and Machine Learning Competency designations. We develop big data solutions and deliver big data managed services built from underlying AWS building blocks like Amazon Redshift, Kinesis, S3, DynamoDB, Machine Learning and Elastic MapReduce. We help customers build, operate and manage breathtaking "Data Machines" for their data-driven businesses. We architect solutions that address traditional data warehousing, Internet-of-Things analytics back-ends, predictive analytics and machine learning to open up new business opportunities. Our experience spans use cases in multiple industries including industrial, manufacturing, oil & gas, energy, life sciences, gaming, retail analytics, financial services and media & entertainment.

The Role

We are seeking experienced and versatile Consulting Engineers. The ideal contributor will work with a skilled team developing and operating enterprise-grade services backbone products and services supporting industrial process optimization data lakes, agile analytics, and data ops platforms.

Qualifications & Technical Skills

• 5+ years of programming experience
• Strong programming skills, preferably in Python and / or Java
• Knowledge of professional software engineering best practices for the full development lifecycle (coding standards and reviews, source management, automated build and testing)
• Proficient in usage of distributed revision control systems with branching, tagging (git)
• Strong experience with environment and deployment automation, infrastructure-as-code, deployment pipeline specification and development
• Operations design, metrics and SLA definition, trigger specification
• Experience managing applications in Amazon Web Services and familiarity with all of their core, compute, networking, storage, security, compliance, serverless, orchestration, and analytics offerings
• Experience building and maintaining container-based infrastructures (AWS ECS / EKS)
• Good working knowledge of deploying and managing large scale applications and services
• Exposure to networking & load balancing solutions
• Specify and manage the provisioning of deployment environments using tools like CloudFormation and Terraform
• Deliver ongoing releases using tiered pipelines and continuous integration tools like Jenkins, Bamboo, AWS CodeBuild and CodePipeline
• Support data-centric environments including data replication, log shipping, performance tuning, and backups
• Define, develop, and maintain monitoring and reporting infrastructure and best practices
• Excellent documentation habits and writing skills
• Solution architecture and design
• Software development and continuous integration embedded with or in partnership with development teams
• Development and Production Environment specification, creation and maintenance
• Operations Design
• Specification and Implementation of Cloud Operations Standard Operating Procedures
• Build scripting
• On-going monitoring and support
• A bachelor's degree in engineering or computer science

Our Values

We are proud to say we are an equal opportunity employer and welcome all applicants for employment without attention to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status. With Japanese roots going back over 100 years, our culture is founded on the values of our parent company expressed as the Hitachi Spirit:

Wa - Harmony, Trust, Respect

Makoto - Sincerity, Fairness, Honesty, Integrity

Kaitakusha-Seishin - Pioneering Spirit, Challenge

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