by Ronald Barron | Apr 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Security Finance
Location:Â AL, FL, GA, ID, IN, IL, KY, LA, MO, NV, NM, NC, OH, OK, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI
Job Overview
Are you well versed across different technology stacks and motivated to use your skills to aid a team towards continuous improvement? Do you have strong technical abilities that you can utilize to foster and communicate within a team?
If you consider yourself adaptable to new structure and change and have experience with Storage Technology, come be a leader within our team, Come Begin Your Story as Senior Systems Engineer!
Security Finance has been a leader in the financial services industry since 1955, and proudly provides installment loans and income tax preparation to the communities where we operate. At Security Finance, it’s about being good stewards of our community, helping neighbors in times of need and treating customers with the respect they deserve.
You’ll know you’re successful as Senior Systems Engineer when you:
- Plan, design, and implement SFC systems infrastructure; hardware and software
- Analyze, develop, modify, test and maintain the system
- Verify and validate that systems meet internal and external requirements
- Diagnose problems and provide recommendations for improvement on existing/new systems
- Provides 3rd level support of Home Office and remote end user systems as well as second level support for cases received from ticking system and document processes
- Develop and document procedures and materials for administrative and software installation tasks
You could be a great addition as Senior Systems Engineer if you have:
- 7+ years of experience in an Architecture/Design Role with key focus on Service Delivery and Project Management/Execution
- 10+ years of systems administration/architecture in the following technology areas
- Linux/Windows/VMware
- DR/BC, Load Balancing, Infrastructure and Monitoring
- Data Center Architecture, Storage and Replication
- High Availability/Clustering
- PowerShell scripting experience (Required)
- Microsoft and CCNA Certifications
- Reliable Internet (DSL or higher)
- Must live in one of the following states: AL, FL, GA, ID, IN, IL, KY, LA, MO, NV, NM, NC, OH, OK, SC, TN, TX, UT, VA, WI.
- 100% Remote
Keep in mind that as Senior Systems Engineer we provide:
- An EXCELLENT benefits bundle that includes company-paid medical insurance (free to the employee), dental, life insurance, short-and long-term disability, profit sharing, 401k with company matching, and paid sick, holiday, and vacation time.
- Growth Potential We believe in fostering our employees’ talents and providing a pathway for their individual career story.
- TOP-of-the-line training – We are committed to helping you build a solid foundation and do your job to the best of your abilities.
- Community Service – As a company, we are pro-active members of the community. We make ongoing contributions to charities, local food banks, educational institutions and more
Educational Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in computer related field preferred Microsoft certifications preferred
This position is subject to a background check for any convictions directly related to its duties and responsibilities. Only job-related convictions will be evaluated and will not automatically disqualify the candidate.
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by Ronald Barron | Apr 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: US Foods
Join Our Community of Food People!
Are you ready for your next career adventure? (Afterall, your next job should be fun, shouldn’t it)?
Are you ready to join a team of high performers working together to create cutting edge web and mobile apps using the latest technologies? (Afterall, you do want to work with a team that will challenge you to learn new things, be the best you can be, and deliver cool solutions, right)?
Would you love to be able to work from anywhere in the continental U.S.?
At US Foods, we care about YOU, want to enable your SUCCESS, and make winning (together) FUN!
So, now that we’ve got your attention, let’s talk about the opportunity…
We’re looking for an Application Developer to join our team! In this role, you will be responsible for all the cool stuff like development and implementation of web and mobile applications. You will have the opportunity to work across business functions to deliver high performing applications that are scalable as well as easy to maintain. You will also be responsible for applying your growing technical knowledge, skills, and judgment to solve problems relating to outages, application performance issues, and specific user requests (basically, you get to save the day and be someone’s hero)!
The work is completed 100% remote anywhere in the United States except Hawaii or United States Territories.
Job Description
ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Assist and participate in project ideation – from concept to delivery
- Gather information from existing systems, analyze program and time requirements
- Prepare detailed specifications from which programs are developed and coded
- Develop moderately complex programs
- Ensure programs meet standards and technical specifications
- Develop test plans to verify logic of new or modified programs
- Create documentation of work assignments such as program code and technical documentation
- Assist support and/or project personnel in resolving program issues
QUALIFICATIONS:
Education/Training
- B.S. in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Systems or related area required
BASIC REQUIREMENTS:
- Experience with requirements gathering, design, implementation, integration, and testing
- Coursework or demonstrated skill in object-oriented programming
- Experience in web application development OR hands-on website development experience
- Experience integrating front-end templates with back-end functionality
- Demonstrate strong written and verbal communication skills
- Demonstrate excellent organizational and multi-tasking skills
PREFERRED SKILLS:
- Microservice architecture
- JDBC, JMS, Web Services, J2EE, Applet, Servlet, JSP, JSON.
- HTML5, CSS3, Angular, JavaScript/jQuery
- WebLogic, Tomcat
- Docker, Kubernetes
- Kafka
- Swagger
- AWS (API Gateway, WebSocket, Lambda, EC2, S3)
- New Relic
- Git
The following information is provided in accordance with the Colorado Pay Equity Act. Compensation depends on experience, geographic locations, and other factors permitted by law. In Colorado, the expected compensation for this role is between $70,000 – $97,200. This role is also eligible for annual incentive plan bonus. Benefits for this role include health insurance, pre-tax spending accounts, retirement benefits, paid time off, short-term and long-term disability, employee stock purchase plan, and life insurance.
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by Ronald Barron | Apr 20, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Zebra Technologies
Overview
- At Zebra, we’re reinventing how businesses operate at the enterprise edge – helping them run faster, smarter, and more connected than ever before.
- A community of builders, doers and problem solvers, we each play an outstanding role – crafting new technologies, bringing solutions to market, and participate with Companies on the front line of business.
- Zebra’s SaaS business is new and growing and with that we are seeking someone to assess the design of our Cloud services environment from end to end.
- Also in this role, you will identify challenge areas and recommend reliability improvements.
- The ideal candidate will have a background in cloud technologies (specifically monitoring) opposed to developing cloud solutions.
This position may be remote in U.S. or Canada but will not be performed in Colorado.
Responsibilities
- Works as part of a design team, provides all design assurance deliverables required in the development process at each phase with minimum level of coaching, including:
- Evaluation of SW deployment aspects for SW Solutions and SW as a Service in cloud networking environments.
- Advising design engineering on the best practices for SW services health monitoring.
- Recommending design of internal test methods for SW deployment methodologies.
- Review procedures for achieving required levels of SW product reliability in customer environments.
- Developing Field Readiness Review Checklist for SW as a Service world class deployment capability.
- Providing feedback from the SaaS deployment process to engineering with recommendations on design requirements for deployment.
- Recommending Methodologies for improving configuration issues. Woring with team on automation and AI of the SW Solution configuration process.
- Providing feedback in the development of improved design for managed services
- Consulting in determining the reliability of SW system level functioning and performance to achieve targeted Service Level Operation for company, customer and any governmental agency reliability objectives
- Using SW tools and defect predictive means to assess reliability of SW.
- Consulting in the creation and analysis of deployment test plans and managed services Field Readiness Review checklists.
- Specifying or consulting on the specification of diagnostic tools to isolate field outages quickly with minimum impact to customer production networks.
- Using predictive algorithms and other methods to assess the potential for undiscovered SW defects or deployment problems during the setup, testing, and shake out process in the customer environment.
- Actively reviewing, understand and applying the Market Requirements relative to the SW Solution deliverables.
- Documentimg Engineering Specifications to quantify metrics and acceptable criteria for SW Release Readiness, and Field Readiness Release as part of the approval process in keeping with Zebra SW Quality Standards.
- May be responsible for quality activities to support the initiatives of the core development team, program manager or product line management deliverables
- Communicates proactively with the project team and other stakeholders about progress against System level testing and reliability analysis of results.
- Uses experience and knowledge to proactively identify risks to the project and contribute beyond personal scope of deliverables.
- Contributes to overall project leadership
- Works with cross business unit team members reviewing their Quality Processes and the deployment of SW Solutions against those processes.
- Conducts Field Readiness Reviews with the entire releasing project team, (Professions Services, SW Engineering, Program Management, Customer Success Team, the Managed Services team, etc.)
- Demonstrates working knowledge of design for quality tasks, SW functional testing, SW Stress and performance testing within cloud network environments. Ability to determine gaps and specify requirements for mitigation of gaps.
- Actively participates in program Risk Assessment, highlighting key quality issues from a customer focused perspective. Ability to highlight SW Quality shortcomings, managed services shortcoming, and deployment shortcomings and withhold Field Readiness approval when necessary.
- Conducts periodic SW and Field Readiness Quality Reviews where appropriate.
- Assist project team in understanding technical issues and non-technical issues, suggest testing or other approaches to determining root cause and corrective action
- Acts independently to apply knowledge to resolve novel issues or concerns about design approach and conformance to standards
- Analyzes and approves SW Solutions update (or micro services) changes to production products
- Contributes to innovation efforts by participating actively in brainstorming activities and actively benchmarking externally with other organizations on best practices in design assurance for deployment and non-technical offer quality aspects of SW Solutions.
- Participates in special projects as a representative of the DAE team or support process improvement activities within the broader function.
- Works largely with SW Solutions operating over a cloud network.
Qualifications
Minimum Qualifications:
- Requires at least a Master’s degree in SW or Computer Science (Mechanical, Electrical, or Reliability)
- Minimum 8 years of experience
- Working knowledge, skill, and problem solving ability on personal computer based systems
- Knowledge and experience with spreadsheet and statistical software programs
- Advanced Statistical methods and complex problem solving and analysis tools and techniques
- Familiarity with ISO9001 and internal audit techniques
- Effective verbal and written communication skills
- Detailed and numbers oriented
- Six Sigma problem solving training, Black Belt certification or ASQ Certified Quality Engineer a plus
Preferred Qualification:
- Excellent understanding of Cloud related concepts, including strengths and weaknesses
- Experience in Google Cloud Platform (GCP), AWS, Azure
- Fluent in defect tracking tools such as ServiceNow and JIRA
- Experience in Azure, GCP or AWS is required
- Excellent propensity for systems interoperability across cloud networking
- Experience with and ability to know the right questions to ask
- Experience in Cloud networking services deployment
- Ability to look for weaknesses throughout the product lifecycle
- Telementry for health monitoring
- B2B Enterprise experience
- Ability to drill down in techniques (i.e. AI)
- Ability to focus on Quality
- Experience with monitoring ideal
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by Ronald Barron | Apr 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: US Foods
Join Our Community of Food People!
The Sr. Manager Digital Supply Chain Data activates the digital supply chain strategy for US Foods by driving a portfolio of end-to-end supply chain data and technology opportunities and leading near term activation efforts. This high impact role is focused on identifying highest value opportunities to bring data and technology to bear creating new capabilities that will result in best-in-class visibility to inventory movement, supply chain milestones, real-time capacity and availability, network and warehouse operations, transportation efficiency, vendor performance and data warehousing, etc. The strategy outlined ensures best-in-class customer experience, network performance and efficiency, profitability and provides a scalable foundation for future growth.
This position is virtual/remote which means the work can be completed from anywhere in the United States except Hawaii or United States Territories.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Advance portfolio of high impact digital supply chain transformation opportunities.
- Establish and maintain leader and stakeholder alignment on portfolio opportunities.
- Assume role as business product owner for an integrated supply chain performance management capability.
- Align supply chain leaders around rationalized set of KPI’s and Metrics for all levels.
- Assess, design, and implement process changes resulting in consistent high-quality data.
- Design and lead the execution of advanced analytics and process automation opportunities for supply chain.
- Collaborate with stakeholders across field, operations excellence, replenishment, logistics, and finance to define clear and compelling end state visions of realized opportunities at scale.
- Define digital supply chain impact summaries, defining scope, outlining value return, cost estimates, dependencies, and roadmaps to realize.
- Partner with IT and I&A to define digital opportunity technical roadmaps.
- Lead activation and management of year one projects, defining scope, schedule, change management plans and success metrics.
- Establish and lead supply chain optimized analytics prioritization process in partnership with I&A.
- Other duties as assigned by the Sr. Director Supply Chain Data and Technology.
SUPERVISION:
To be defined in conjunction with opportunity and roadmap development
RELATIONSHIPS:
Internal:
- Primary relationship with Supply Chain (Replenishment, Operations, Operations Excellence, Transportation and Routing, Logistics, Customer Experience), Commercial, Finance, Enterprise PMO,
- External:
- Professional networks, industry organizations and/or consultants focused on leading practices in supply chain technology and deployment
QUALIFICATIONS
Education/Training:
Bachelor’s degree in technology, operations management, supply chain management, business, or in another relevant field. Advanced degree preferred.
Related Experience/Requirements:
- Minimum 7+ years of relevant Technology, Supply Chain, Operations and/or Logistics experience; Demonstrates subject matter expertise and field credibility in supply chain functions; including 2+ years of management experience (including people and/or functions).
- Supply chain technology expertise and functional credibility in the field
- Versed in current technology and deployment leading practices and related performance metrics.
- Strong change management and communication skills.
- Experience influencing peers and senior leaders.
- Competency identifying/establishing, implementing, and sharing operational best practices.
- Experience leading projects that required coordination across team boundaries in large, multi-function, cross-geographic, matrixed organizations.
Knowledge/Skills/Abilities:
- Industry knowledge: In-depth knowledge of supply chain operations technology, and of related federal, state and local regulations – preferably in the foodservice or transportation industry.
- Influence/Communication Skills: Strong presence and open communication skills, effective at all levels of the organization; inviting and effectively responsive to questions and concerns; builds credibility and authority when working with indirect reports, peers and senior leaders; effectively translates business strategies and objectives into technology priorities and effectively articulates desired outcomes, tactics and behaviors.
- Adaptability: A leader who can navigate the organization through complex and diverse situations; comfortable with ambiguity.
- Coaching/Mentoring: Develops and inspires team member mindsets and capabilities.
- Empathetic Leadership: Understands, gauges and adapts to the perspectives of varied stakeholders, both collectively and in isolation, over the course of change initiatives.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Builds strong cross-functional relationships quickly to align on actions and resources required and to mutually accomplish company goals.
- Problem Solving Skills: Highly analytical with strong problem-solving skills, including identifying and working with team members to avoid or remove roadblocks; creative and collaborative in identifying and solving for organizational resistance to change.
- Strategic Thinking: Brings creative approaches to risk diagnosis and mitigation; active learner able to quickly understand relevant risks associated with functional initiatives.
- Openness to New Ideas: Demonstrates the ability and willingness to move outside of their comfort zone to explore new options/approaches; inspires others to do the same.
- Program Management: Strong program management skills and knowledge of program management principles, methodology and tools; able to plan and lead the execution of all aspects of a program with a sense of urgency, including scheduling, resources, scope, budget, risks/issues, communication and reporting.
- Capacity Planning: Allocates responsibilities appropriately and effectively leverages resources to meet anticipated deadlines and desired business outcomes.
The following information is provided in accordance with the Colorado Pay Equity Act. Compensation depends on experience, geographic locations, and other factors permitted by law. In Colorado, the expected compensation for this role is between $ 98,500.00 and $ 131,400.. Benefits for this role include health insurance, pre-tax spending accounts, retirement benefits, paid time off, short-term and long-term disability, employee stock purchase plan, and life insurance.
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by Ronald Barron | Apr 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Lucas Group
Lucas Group is looking for a hard-working Solutions Architect to join our client’s growing team of software experts. In this role you will work with a team of software engineers, core infrastructure engineers, and product managers to build and maintain customer-facing experiences and backend solutions to enable high-quality application solutions that leverage AWS services. You’ll get to play with some of the best tool’s AWS has to offer to help with integration, data engineering, and software development. The ideal candidate should be a self-starter with a strong work ethic and a growth mindset. The team values engineering quality, technical excellence, innovation, and collaboration.
This is a contract-to-hire OR direct hire role for the right candidate.
This position can work remotely from anywhere in the U.S.!
What You Will Do:
- 40% of your time will be focused on full stack design and architecture
- Looking for someone who can mentor and bring best practices into the team
- The client has some legacy code in the following: Python, PowerShell, and C# (but you do not need to be an expert in all of them)
- Manipulating data
- Interact w/AWS but does not have to be an AWS expert
- Will interface with internal stakeholders on a regular basis therefore you must be professional, clear, and concise
Skills Needed
- 4 yrs. experience in software engineer role with full stack design and architecture
- Strong coder: Identify gaps, evolve applications, and close gaps
- AWS experience
- Needs to be familiar with SQS, SNS API gateway
- Minimum 1 yr. experience with Web Tech/Web Dev
Highly preferred experience (not required)
- Experience with content management systems
- Apache or Tomcat web experience
Educational & Work Requirements:
- 4+ years of software engineer & solutions architect experience
Location: Remote
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