Software Development Engineer II

Optimum is seeking a Software Development Engineer II for its DevOps Toolchain team. The role builds and improves developer tools, CI/CD pipelines, automation frameworks, testing practices, and monitoring capabilities to increase software development productivity, quality, and release speed.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to our software development tools strategy accelerating our development teams
• Execute on the implementation of our tools roadmap that includes an CI/CD pipeline that will be leveraged by the software development teams across the organization to support our broadband, video, mobile and customer support applications
• Implement tools to identify, document and track software defects. Work closely with the development teams to resolve issues and ensure timely fixes
• Introduce capabilities to do effective A/B testing of releases across test populations
• Lead process improvement initiatives to enhance testing practices, tools, and metrologies
• Implement tools to monitor and report on key quality metrics including defect rates, test coverage and test execution progress. Analyze metrics to identify areas for improvement
• Leverage developer tools and test automation to transform our software release processes and enable the development teams to get capabilities to customers faster
• Use and customize out of the box tools to instrument and monitor systems
• Contribute to a structured knowledge base that allows teams to create, maintain and extend documentation for all our developer tools and processes
• Establish and gain acceptance for Key Results indicated by our development pipeline and automation test frameworks
• Use prototypes and proof of concepts as the primary tool for deep and detailed explorations of architecture and software designs
• Go-to advocate for developer tools in the organization
• Continue to make Optimum a Developer Friendly Environment

Skills

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field
• Minimum 3-5 years of experience in software development, automation, and tools
• Proficiency in variety of programming languages (Python, Java, C#)
• Experience with Google cloud or Amazon Web Services and their capabilities
• Thorough understanding of software methodologies and DevOps practices
• Experience with the implementation and optimization CI/CD Pipelines
• Experience with the automation of test cases
• Good intuition for software design, actively looking to learn from other teams and projects
• Experience with data formats and locality with performance considerations
• Demonstrated experience solving performance and data issues by applying experience/knowledge
• Completely comfortable working with live production systems, debugging issues and taking careful actions with protections against damage
• Contributes to establishing and maintaining corporate policies related to technology
• Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S
• At this time, we do not provide visa sponsorship for employment

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