Director - Engineering - IT

Director - Engineering

Skills & Knowledge You Should Possess :

- Bachelors/Master's degree in Computer Science (or related field) or equivalent experience required, MS a plus

- 5+ years of technical project management experience leading a full stack development team

- 5+ years demonstrated experience building large-scale, high-traffic, 3 tier services stacks

- 4-5 years of experience designing and implementing SOA services for media-centric projects using synchronous/asynchronous and stateless processing models

- Extensive expertise with services software stack architecture including building and maintaining database schemas, workflow optimization, batch processing, microservices architectures, and tiered caching architectures to optimize content delivery

- Ability to create, manage, and deliver against large, interdependent project plans

- Excellent verbal, written, presentation and interpersonal communications skills

- Ability to understand and document project requirements and dependencies

- Understanding of business and functional requirements

- Strong attention to detail and focus on task completion is critical

- Required experience:

- Git, Confluence and Jira

- Building and operating a CI/CD environment utilizing Jenkins, Chef/Puppet/Ansible, Nexus, Maven and/or AWS Code Pipeline

- Work fluently with Java, Python, Node.js, SQL and NoSQL databases

- Building and operating autoscaling environment with Docker in AWS

- Leveraging AWS platforms and tooling to optimize time-to-market and control operational cost

- Building highly optimized, highly available, scalable, redundant, transaction-based SOA software to service apps

- Instrumenting services for defect detection, performance telemetry, business intelligence analytics and infrastructure/application incident triage

- Leveraging top-tier Content Delivery Networks (CDN) to optimize content delivery and site performance.

- Managing and working with agile development processes, tools and rituals.

- Supporting and performing Code Reviews.

- Desirable experience:

- Deep hands-on experience configuring and operating the following AWS products/platforms: EC2, ALB/ELB, S3, Route 53, AMI, CloudFormation, ASGs, Fargate/EKS, CloudFront, Docker, ECS, RDS, KMS, IAM, WAF.

- Familiarity with Logstash/Filebeat, Elasticache, Kibana.

- Familiarity with client-side mobile and responsive web technologies such as iOS, Android, HTML(5), CSS, JavaScript, jQuery, Angular and/or React.

- This position requires healthy doses of initiative and the ability to remain flexible and responsive in a very dynamic environment