by Ronald Barron | Mar 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Pearson
As the global leader in electronic testing, Pearson VUE (www.pearsonvue.com) validates the skills and knowledge of millions of individuals every year. Our customers’ high-stakes certification, licensure, admissions and other credentialing exams help people advance in technology, government and professional careers, as well as attain educational growth. Pearson VUE offers proctored exams through the world’s largest network of test centers in addition to testing in online and un-proctored environments.
Pearson VUE is a business of Pearson, the world’s leading learning company with global-reach and market-leading businesses. Pearson is listed on both the London and New York stock exchanges (UK: PSON; NYSE: PSO). For more information, visit www.pearson.com.
We are the world’s learning company with more than 24,000 employees operating in 70 countries. We combine world-class educational content and assessment, powered by services and technology, to enable more effective teaching and personalized learning at scale. We believe that wherever learning flourishes so do people.
In this exciting and fast-paced role you will help Pearson VUE in its move to the Cloud in a DevOps culture. You will be responsible for design, implementation and support of the Pearson VUE cloud infrastructure in Azure. You will work closely within the Development and Operations organizations to support the design, automation, and deployments of applications and infrastructure.
You will design and implement the continuous delivery and cloud deployment framework. You should have technical experience in building infrastructure and applications for scalability, resiliency, availability, and recovery. A key portion of your job will be to help move from a traditional infrastructure deployment model to an infrastructure as code model with automation and monitoring via DevOps.
You should have excellent communication and influencing skills and the ability to work across teams to create optimal business solutions. You should have the ability to effectively communicate with cloud computing vendors and service providers.
PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Delivery of Cloud infrastructure strategies aligned with business objectives with a focus on Cloud migrations
- Provide leadership in infrastructure migration methodologies and techniques including mass application movements into the cloud including:
- Design, implementation and support of infrastructure as code
- Research new cloud technologies and prototype solutions that can be leveraged to decrease costs and increase performance
- Assess and compare cloud native PaaS with cloud-enabled traditional infrastructure
- Mentor existing staff on cloud computing best practices and technology to drive cloud adoption
- Design of cloud infrastructure with a focus on Azure using industry best practices
- Provide code reviews of team members work.
- Perform Quality Assurance (i.e. Testing) on other team members development activities.
- Participate in agile activities (daily standups, backlog refinement, iteration planning, retrospectives, etc.)
- Contribute to team’s backlog by creating stories and defects as they arise
- Take ownership of assigned tasking
- Participate in on call rotation (approx. once every 6 weeks)
Qualifications
REQUIRED KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:
- 4 year degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
- 5+ years of software development experience building enterprise applications, solution design and technical architecture experience.
- 2+ years’ experience in Azure based cloud computing based services architecture.
- Programming experience (Java, C#, etc.)
- Strong understanding across cloud and infrastructure components (server, storage, data, and applications) to deliver end to end cloud infrastructure architectures and designs
- Experience automating infrastructure in a cloud environment using tools like Terraform and Ansible
- Shell scripting (PowerShell, Python, Bash, etc.)
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Ability to learn new technologies quickly and efficiently
- Excellent technical analysis and problem solving skills
PREFERRED KNOWLEDGE AND EXPERIENCE:
- AWS
- Container technologies such as Docker
- Build automation tools such as Packer
- Building continuous integration and delivery pipelines with tools like Jenkins or Team City.
- Designing outage less systems using practices such as Blue / Green or Rolling Deployments
- Experience with Windows and Linux-based operating system configuration, automation and management
- Experience in a managed Kubernetes implementation (KubeSpray, EKS, KOPS)
- Experience with monitoring and analytical tools (Splunk, New Relic)
- Certificate Management (client certificates, server certificates, certificate authorities, etc.)
- Familiarity with cloud based disaster recovery and HA system development
- Infrastructure experience (firewalls, load balancer, AD, DNS, etc.)
- Networking experience
- Agile exposure
- DevSecOps (Cloudvisory, Tigera, etc.)
- DNS management
- Continuous infrastructure testing
- F5 Big IP Load Balancer
- GIT based Source Control Systems
- Ansible
- Terraform
- PagerDuty (or other equivalent monitoring tools)
Equal Employment Opportunity
Pearson is an Equal Opportunity and Affirmative Action Employer and a member of E-Verify. All qualified applicants, including minorities, women, protected veterans, and individuals with disabilities are encouraged to apply.
http://www.pearson.com/careers/diversity-and-inclusion.html
Pearson is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer and a member of E-Verify. We are committed to building a team that represents a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. The more inclusive we are, the better our work will be. All employment is decided based on qualifications, merit, and business need.All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, ethnicity, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, national origin, protected veteran status, disability status, or any other group protected by law.
The anticipated starting salary range for Colorado-based individuals expressing interest in this position is $120,000 – $165,000. This position is bonus eligible. Benefits available to eligible employees can be seen at: https://pearsonbenefitsus.com/
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Learning is the most powerful force for change in the world. More than 20,000 Pearson employees deliver our products and services in nearly 200 countries, all working towards a common purpose – to help everyone achieve their potential through learning. We do that by providing high quality, digital content and learning experiences, as well as assessments and qualifications that help people build their skills and grow with the world around them. We are the world’s leading learning company. Learn more at pearsonplc.com.
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by Ronald Barron | Mar 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Twilio
See yourself at Twilio
Join the team as our next Full Stack Engineer III, Processing.
Who we are & why we’re hiring
Twilio powers real-time business communications and data solutions that help companies and developers worldwide build better applications and customer experiences.
Although we’re headquartered in San Francisco, we’re on a journey to becoming a globally antiracist company that supports diversity, equity & inclusion wherever we do business. We employ thousands of Twilions worldwide, and we’re looking for more builders, creators, and visionaries to help fuel our growth momentum.
About the job
This position is needed to create high-quality, modern cloud solutions to deliver Twilio’s Customer Data Platform (CDP). In this full stack role, you will be responsible for design, implementation, and operation of frontend and backend systems that compose the processing functionality of the Customer Data Platform. You’ll also be responsible for mentoring, sharing knowledge, and guiding the technical decisions of the team to set us up for long-term success, both as a product and as a team.
At Twilio Segment, we believe in giving our customers control over all of the most important data for their business – customer data. It all comes down to one core belief: companies should be able to send their data wherever they want, whenever they want, without any fuss. This has been a core philosophy to how we’ve built our products from day one, and we’re excited to take this to the next level to fully realize this promise
You will work side-by-side with other engineers, designers, product managers, and members of our go-to-market team to opportunity size, brainstorm, execute, and detail the results of your work. We’re a team that loves pushing the Segment product forward, delighting our customers, and making an impact on the bottom line of the business!
Responsibilities
In the Processing Pillar, our mission is to empower our customers to ensure the right customer data reaches the right destinations through a transparent, debuggable pipeline they trust. As part of this pillar, you will:
- Use your full-stack engineering knowledge to build delightful user experiences and robust engineering systems. You’ll primarily be working in TypeScript, React, Node, Apollo GraphQL, and SQL.
- Identifying opportunities for improving the Segment product with data, research, and creativity. We believe the best ideas come from all members of the team, and empower our engineers to be product thinkers.
- Creating re-usable systems and abstractions that help us move fast and iterate quickly. We’re excited about empowering other teams to help them share our passion for product quality and development velocity.
- Build best-in-class controls to achieve data quality, consistency, transformation and privacy.
- Provide our customers detailed insight into how their data flows through Segment’s systems.
- Architecting our systems to run in multiple AWS regions throughout the world.
- Designing and building a new observability platform to make data flow through Segment transparent to our customers and to enable them to debug problems on their own.
- Up-leveling our data governance product (Protocols) for enterprise-scale workflows.
- Researching on how to improve the overall usability of our products.
Qualifications
Not all applicants will have skills that match a job description exactly. Twilio values diverse experiences in other industries, and we encourage everyone who meets the required qualifications to apply. While having desired qualifications make for a strong candidate, we encourage applicants with alternative experiences to also apply. If your career is just starting or hasn’t followed a traditional path, don’t let that stop you from considering Twilio. We are always looking for people who will bring something new to the table!
Required:
- 5+ years of professional software development experience.
- Strong engineering fundamentals, with fluency in HTML/CSS, Typescript (ES6/7), React, and related web technologies
- Experience building API products with frameworks such as REST and GraphQL
- You show evidence of exposure to architectural patterns of high-scale web application (e.g., well-designed APIs, good database schema design, efficient algorithms and query patterns)
- Exposure to SDLC from reviewing requirements to debugging complex systems in production
- Experience maintaining and operating always-on cloud services
Desired:
- Experience in leading full stack application development with a focus on front-end for one or more products.
- Experience in statically typed languages such as Golang, C++, Java.
Location
This role will be based in the US as a remote position. No travel is required.
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by Ronald Barron | Mar 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: CGI
Position Description:
CGI is seeking a Senior Functional Analyst to work with one of our St. Louis based clients. Position is fully remote and candidate can be located anywhere in the continental United States. Candidate should be able to work CST hours. We are looking for someone who likes to work in a collaborative team environment to deliver for the client.
Your future duties and responsibilities:
Support project manager in keeping track of report development progress and associated development metrics
- Utilize Access database to pull crucial reporting information and transform this data into insights for leadership
- Provide weekly updates to leadership on status of data issues, UAT progress, training feedback
- Track report development status within Azure Dev Ops
- Open JIRA tickets for data gaps discovered during report development and track these gaps to resolution
- Send reports to UAT, serve as intermediary between developers and business users to address issues, and ensure UAT process is completed as soon as possible
- Support BI by sending ad hoc communications to the business as needed (e.g. system is down, data feed failed, dashboard is unavailable)
- Assist in the requests or coordination with BI as business users need access to data or reports
- Provides junior project management support as needed
Required qualifications to be successful in this role:
Clearly identify the essential qualification vs the desired qualifications. What skills/experience must this person have to be considered? Do not include any “CLIENT IDENTIFIERS†such as client name, client proprietary system/technology or client confidential information.
- Testing experience (including User Acceptance Testing)
- Strong verbal and written communication skills that allow for effective communication with client team and the business
- Strong problem-solving, analytical, and critical thinking skills
Est. Salary Range (Colorado Only): $52K-$105K*
*Disclaimer: In accordance with Colorado’s Equal Pay for Equal Work Act, effective January 1, 2021, a good faith hourly or base salary range must be posted for all positions where the work may be performed in the state of Colorado. Therefore, this good faith salary range will only apply where this described position will be performed in the state, and should not be considered the compensation range in other locations or for other positions.
At CGI we call our professionals “members†to reinforce that all who join our team are, as owners, empowered to participate in the challenges and rewards that come from building a world-class company. CGI’s benefits include:
- Competitive base salaries
- Eligibility to participate in an attractive Share Purchase Plan (SPP) in which the company matches dollar-for-dollar contributions made by eligible employees, up to a maximum, for their job category
- 401(k) Plan and Profit Participation for eligible members
- Generous holidays, vacation, and sick leave plans
- Comprehensive insurance plans that include, among other benefits, medical, dental, vision, life, disability, out-of-county emergency coverage in all countries of employment;
- Back-up child care, Pet insurance, a Member Assistance Program, a 529 college savings program, a personal financial management tool, lifestyle management programs and more.
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by Ronald Barron | Mar 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Citizens Bank
Description
As a member of the Digital Identity Services (DIS) team you will be responsible for supporting, developing, and enhancing the team’s center of excellence and will engage with business units across the organization, produce metrics, documentation, and implement tools and analytic methods.
Location is not a barrier for this role. An onsite position at our corporate headquarters in Rhode Island is available and we are open to remote employment within the United States for an experienced candidate.
Responsibilities will include:
- Assessing existing Customer authentication capabilities, identify gaps, and developing technical and non-technical indicators
- Assisting in evaluating and implementing tools to provide standards and best practices for the DIS capabilities
- Partnering with other groups within the organization to identify, implement, and document processes
- Working with partners to identify requirements, determine products and services needed, and identify opportunities and areas for improvement/enhancement
- Assisting in collecting, analyzing, and interpreting data from multiple sources to improve the ability to address application requirements
Qualifications
Experience and Skills:
- Understanding of information security concepts, best practices, and regulations related to Customer IAM preferred
- Understanding of enterprise security and networking technology and how the technology relates to the Customer requirements preferred
- Advanced understanding of the Microsoft Office suite (e.g., Outlook, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc..)
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to execute work independently and as a team member with good interpersonal skills
- Experience as a security consultant preferred
- Exposure to coding Python, JavaScript, or other scripting language
- Knowledge of machine learning and its applications in information security
- Exposure to IAM products and services such as Ping Identity, Okta, Oracle IAM, or CA SiteMinder preferred
Education and Certifications:
- Bachelors Degree preferred
- Certifications: Associate of CISSP, or similar preferred.
Hours & Work Schedule
- Hours per Week: 40
- Work Schedule: Monday through Friday
- This position is not available in Colorado
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by Ronald Barron | Mar 6, 2022 | Uncategorized
Employer: Codecademy
We are NYC based, but remote friendly unless specified. (US & Canada based candidates only)
Hello, World! Codecademy is on a mission to build inspiring careers in technology through engaging, accessible, and interactive online coding education.
Our learners have gone on to start new jobs, launch new companies, and lead new lives thanks to their work with Codecademy, and our platform has transformed the way businesses develop and retain their teams.
Since 2011, our team has grown to over 200 employees serving 50+ million learners from 190+ countries. We’ve raised over $82M in venture capital funding from top investors including Prosus, Owl Ventures, Union Square Ventures, Y Combinator, and more–which gives us the capital to get stuff done in an impactful way.
Join us to help build a business that empowers tens of millions of people to lead better lives!
The Content Services team focuses on building scalable, flexible and extensible services to store and interface with all of Codecademy’s curriculum data. The team develops the database, caching layer, and GraphQL API to access Codecademy content while also owning services dealing with user progress and achievements. The team is part of the larger platform organization which is responsible for developing the foundational services, applications, and components that cut across all of Codecademy’s business units.
If you’re looking for a highly collaborative environment with lots of learning opportunities, this is the team for you.
WHAT YOU’LL DO
- Design and implement solutions to complex problems
- Design and improve APIs to enable other product teams to surface learning data to users in novel ways (Ruby on Rails, Postgres, GraphQL)
- Enable user progress to be tracked in a scalable manner
- Improve our search service
- Lead development of initiatives across our platform that enable our users to achieve their learning goals
- Collaborate with other teams to get ahead of cross-team dependencies
- Contribute to engineering team-wide process improvements and automation
- Help enhance the scalability and efficiency of our infrastructure
- Design and improve systems for gaining insights about user learning
WHAT YOU’LL NEED
- A minimum of 2-3 years of experience developing web applications using Ruby on Rails
- Experience maintaining APIs; comfortable with API design patterns (REST, RPC, GraphQL)
- A passion for testing best practices; can write unit tests in your favorite language with your eyes closed
- Experience working with both SQL and NoSQL databases. We currently use primarily PostgreSQL and MongoDB
WHAT WILL MAKE YOU STAND OUT
- Particularly strong back-end experience in the Rails ecosystem
- Experience with GraphQL and Apollo Federation
- Experience with Golang
- Experience with ops and/or containerization technologies: Kubernetes, Terraform, EC2
- Proven empathy for our users, such as a background in education or past experience using our site
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