Sr. Web Services Platform Engineer

Job Description

• The new AT&T advertising technology business is on a unique mission through the launch of its newest business Xandr. This organization born as recently as August 2018 & built on a foundation of 140 years of AT&T excellence and multiple acquisitions of top assets and people, is driving the advertising industry forward by creating new options for advertisers and publishers to find and reach specific audiences at scale in trusted, premium content environment. A fundamental enabler for our strategy is technology, and we have launched a new technology center of excellence in Bangalore which is searching for candidates who embody the Xandr principles - create with curiosity and courage, believe in better, use data responsibly, pursue differences, reflect and imagine, and teach and learn
• Xandr is looking for talented and passionate software engineers to join its Web Services Platform team to build large scale, high impact systems on which our advertising business operates
• Roles and Responsibilities:,Individual Responsibilites: Deploy, Operate and Monitor high volume server side applications Triage production issues and develop fixes Perform root cause analysis for issues Replace manual processes with automated scripts and tools Create internal tools and contribute to an internal web service framework Break down a monolith into smaller web-services Be on call for multiple applications Ensure timely upgrades of libraries and infrastructre components Procatively look for ways to improve the platform infrastructre Time will be split between operational support and improving the qualtiy and efficiency of the platform. Managing Responsibilites: Handle regular 1:1s with team members Encourage technical growth of the team Influence and guide technical decisions Active role in mentoring the team Expect about 30 PERCENT of time to be spent on management activites
• Key Competencies and Skills:,Required Experience: Linux, Apache Web Server, MySQL and PHP (LAMP Stack development) Bash scripting and command line utilities Datastructures and Algorithms Object Oriented Software design principles Database schema design and SQL PHP development Additional Optional Experience: Docker kubernetes Jenkins Build System Configuration Mangement using Puppet/Chef/Ansible Metrics using Promethus or Graphite Queuing systems: RabbitMQ and Kafka Caching systems: Redis, Memcached Java or Go development,Education and Qualifications:, BS or MS in Computer Science or Engineering 6 years of experince building large scale distributed systems Leadership experince of leading a small team (2-3 engineers),Additional Information:,Work Hours 1:00pm to 10:00pm IST. Majority of the Web Services Platform team is located in New York and Portland, Oregon. A few hours of overlap in work hours is needed to conduct meetings
• Job ID 1911210-I Date posted 10/22/2019

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