Application Engineer + Infrastructure (Python, Cloud, DevOps, Linux)

Position Title: Infrastructure Application Engineer (Python, Cloud, DevOps, Linux)Location: New York, NYLet s create our future together at The AES Group!About The AES GroupThe AES Group is a premier technology and engineering consulting company that has been bringing businesses and talent together for over 20 years to deliver the most innovative solutions that create the most positive impact on society. AES has helped over 40 business enterprises, including Fortune 500 companies, engage their customers, empower their employees, and transform their business operations with the power of cloud, data, AI, Engineering and other emerging technologies.Job DescriptionLooking to onboard a middleware specialist to provide platform engineering tooling automation and elevated production support services conforming to client s security blueprints and focused on performance reliability and scalability by understanding the technical requirement from application owners and business participate in technical evaluation of vendors and vendor technologies conduct proof of concept packaging and deploying middleware products.The team also supports strategic initiatives like cloud migration containerization SRE and agile transformation build and manage services across LCGThis team also partners with central technology teams like Infrastructure Security Network Database and procurement to design and deliver solutionsThe team leverages a variety of tools for platform design and application trouble shooting as they also provide level 4 support to the application operations teamResponsibilitiesThe successful candidate will apply technical skills to design build and automate application platforms both on premises and cloud Partner with other teams like enterprise infrastructure MIS networking security storage and database and data center to roll out application platforms successfully as per the designCoordinate with development and business teams to obtain sign off for non-functional requirement testingMaintain a 360-degree view of an application and its underlying middleware and infrastructure componentsProduce reusable infrastructure designs patterns for future reference and periodically review refresh the sameSupport vendor technology onboarding following the client s best practices and security blueprintApply technical skills to automate daily support functions improve system stability support hygiene initiatives and deliver innovation that creates efficiency and consistencyRequired SkillsHands on experience of Operating Systems mainly Linux 7 and Windows Server 2016 and above and virtualization technologies like VMWareHands on working experience of middleware technologies like Cloud platforms Azure or AWS Docker containers Kubernetes S3 ADLS web servers Apache IBM HTTPD Application Servers Web Sphere Tomcat Kafka and Airflow to include application integration configuration and troubleshootingExpert level scripting skills using Python mandatory Perl and Shell Identity management protocols like OIDC OAuth SAML LDAP integrationBasic operational knowledge of RDBMS like DB2 Oracle MSSQL MySQL Postgres etc not all and query language Clear concept of load balancer firewalls web proxies and HTTP protocol storage platforms like NAS SAN from an implementation perspective onlyFamiliar with basic security policies for secure hosting solutions Kerberos and standard encryption methodologies including SSL and TLSPrior experience managing large web-based n tier applications in secure environments on cloudShould have worked in an agile delivery model with exposure to CI CDNice To Have SkillsExposure to tools like App Dynamics Open Telemetry Prometheus Grafana Splunk Ansible etcFamiliarity with NoSQL database MarkLogic MongoDB and SPARQL query languagesExposure to Big Data platforms like Hadoop Cloudera and ElasticShould have performed capacity planning and performance tuning exercise A system architecture developer work experienceExperience 7 plus years in as similar role of hands-on application middleware specialistPrior experience of working in a global financial organization is an advantageLet your future start with The AES Group and join our mission to create the most positive impact on society with the power of technology. Apply now