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Staff Engineer

Advantage Solutions
401(k)
United States, Illinois, Chicago
Nov 22, 2024

Staff Engineer
Job Locations

US-IL-Chicago



Primary Posting Location : City

Chicago


Primary Posting Location : State/Province

IL


Primary Posting Location : Postal Code

60601


Primary Posting Location : Country

US

Requisition ID
2024-434313

Position Type
Full Time

Category
Professional: (IT, Finance, Legal, HR, Talent Acquisition, Administrative, Customer Service)

Minimum
USD $111,700.00/Yr.

Maximum
USD $145,200.00/Yr.



Summary

Staff Engineer

At our Company, we grow People, Brands, and Businesses! This is a high-level position, and people selected for this type of job need to have a comprehensive knowledge of software development practices, and they must have mastery overwriting code and debugging code. Engineering at this level includes performing complex programming tasks and implementing software systems. The job is often highly collaborative and may include leading teams or mentoring more junior engineers.

This role is part of the Advantage Solutions Infrastructure and Cloud Engineering team within the corporate IT organization. The Lead Devops Engineer will play a key role in evolving and executing our Devops and cloud strategy of Advantage Solutions as well as providing strategic innovation to ensure operational success is achieved. This individual will be instrumental to executing on multiple initiatives meant to elevate Advantage to a cloud centric modern application development powerhouse.

Take this opportunity to join North America's leading business solutions provider and build your career working with amazing people in a growing industry! Apply today!

What we offer:

    Full-Time Benefits (Medical, Dental, Vision, Life)
  • 401(k) with company match
  • Training and Career Development
  • Generous Paid Time-Off

Responsibilities:

  • Champion operational readiness from the planning phase through to completion
  • Provide focused guidance and coaching to other team members, including providing clarity regarding day-to-day tasks, ensuring analysts have the right climate in which to succeed.
  • Lead or contribute incident management process as a member of L3 support rotation.
  • Optimize solutions to introduce resilience for future incidents by identifying root cause and creating knowledgebase documentation, monitoring, and automation solves as part of continuous improvement operation model.
  • Accountable for executing or managing incident, problem and service request including implementation of workarounds and changes.
  • Accountable to identify and implement best practice and process improvements with 3rd parties delivering operational and deployment services.
  • Define and drive the implementation of technical KPI reports to deliver indicators for service improvements.
  • Accountable to increase quality by supporting technical and commercial service improvements.
  • You will take a major role in roadmap definition and implementation of our CI/CD pipelines, including technologies and methodologies selection.
  • Implement optimizations to maximize utilization and drive cost reduction, such as KEDA, HPA, and other cloud autoscaling models.
  • Implement solutions and new patterns focused on driving velocity for new development initiatives.
  • Build CI/CD pipelines in support of microservice/containerized application development landscape.
  • Build CI/CD pipelines in support of a data lake engineering landscape and AI.
  • You will design, develop, and productize automation processes for installing large scale, enterprise grade deployments.
  • Conduct research, perform Proof of Concepts, and evaluate new tools to assist in mission delivery.
  • Contribute to and implement according to technical standards, reference architectures, design patterns, and architecture decision frameworks - especially those requiring alignment and integration of multiple technologies and applications across the business.
  • Adhere to and maintain the Advantage Solutions Devops processes, tools, and ways of working to foster adoption of the Advantage Solutions IT strategy.
  • Leads medium-large-scale projects throughout the entire lifecycle: solution architecture, engineering design, development, testing, production, and subsequent fixes and improvements.
  • Provides technical guidance to the executive team and makes wide-scale architectural and design decisions. Estimates, assesses, and manages project timelines with the management and executive teams.
  • Reviews designs and mission critical code to ensure is clear, concise, tested, and easily understood by others as well as meets standards, architectural principles, and NFRs.
  • Mastered understanding of all components of key features and architecture for multiples products, with a high-level understanding of several other products, integrations, and capabilities.
  • Understands, advocates, and contributes ADV technology and engineering standards and technology best practices.
  • Demonstrates an ability to succeed in a wide range of complex technical situations across multiple axes: e.g., scale, uncertainty, and interconnectedness.
  • Is a resource for other teams that need help with adjacent features.
  • Advises the management team with insights and recommendations that will improve the team. Helps to create job description requirements and participates in interview loops. Mentor multiple teammates.

Qualifications:

  • Bachelor of Science in engineering, computer science or management science is required.
  • 3-5 years' experience in software development of .net, Java (Springboot/springCloud), or NodeJS
  • 3-5 years' experience in DevOps methodologies in Azure, strong background with GCP and AWS a plus.
  • Experience with application refactoring and transformation into modern microservice and containerization patterns.
  • Experience with cloud transformation and migration initiatives (cloud to cloud and on prem to cloud.
  • Experience with Kubernetes, clustered computing, Windows Server/Linux operating environment.
  • Fundamental understanding of cloud networking in Azure.
  • Understanding of protocols/technologies like HTTP, SSL, LDAP, JDBC, Servlet/JSP, SQL, HTML, XML.

Job Will Remain Open Until Filled



Responsibilities

The Company is one of North America's leading sales and marketing agencies specializing in outsourced sales, merchandising, category management, and marketing services to manufacturers, suppliers, and producers of food products and consumer packaged goods. The Company services a variety of trade channels including grocery, mass merchandise, specialty, convenience, drug, dollar, club, hardware, consumer electronics, and home centers. We bridge the gap between manufacturers and retailers, providing consumers access to the best products available in the marketplace today.

Responsibilities

  • Leads medium-large-scale projects throughout the entire lifecycle: solution architecture, engineering design, development, testing, production, and subsequent fixes and improvements
  • Provides technical guidance to the executive team and makes wide-scale architectural and design decisions. Estimates, assesses, and manages project timelines with the management and executive teams
  • Reviews designs and mission critical code to ensure is clear, concise, tested, and easily understood by others as well as meets standards, architectural principles, and NFRs
  • Mastered understanding of all components of key features and architecture for multiples products, with a high-level understanding of several other products, integrations, and capabilities.
  • Understands, advocates, and contributes ADV technology and engineering standards and technology best practices
  • Demonstrates an ability to succeed in a wide range of complex technical situations across multiple axes: e.g., scale, uncertainty, and interconnectedness.
  • Is a resource for other teams that need help with adjacent features.
  • Advises the management team with insights and recommendations that will improve the team. Helps to create job description requirements, and participates in interview loops. Mentors multiple teammates.

Supervisory Responsibilities
Direct Reports
This position does not have supervisory responsibilities for direct reports.
Indirect Reports
May delegate work to others and provide guidance, direction, and mentoring to indirect reports.

Travel Requirements
This position requires 10% travel.

Minimum Qualifications

Education Level: Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or related field. Master's degree preferred.

Experience Requirements:

5-10+ years experience in engineering, programming, software development, data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networks, and concurrent/event-based development.

Environmental & Physical Requirements

Office / Sedentary Requirements

Incumbent must be able to perform the essential functions of the job. Work is performed primarily in an office environment. Typically, requires the abilty to sit for extended periods of time (66%+ each day), ability to hear telephone, ability to enter data on a computer and may require the ability to lift up to 10lbs.

Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

  • Advanced understanding of engineering, programming, and software development foundations.
  • Strong knowledge of data structures, algorithms, operating systems, networks, and programming languages.
  • Expertise in concurrent and event-based development, and development/test frameworks.
  • Exceptional leadership and strategic decision-making skills.
  • Ability to work collaboratively and influence senior leadership in shaping the company's technology and product direction.

Additional Information Regarding Job Duties and Job Descriptions

Job duties include additional responsibilities as assigned by one's supervisor or other manager related to the position/department. This job description is meant to describe the general nature and level of work being performed; it is not intended to be construed as an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties, and skills required for the position. The Company reserves the right at any time with or without notice to alter or change job responsibilities, reassign or transfer job positions, or assign additional job responsibilities, subject to applicable law. The Company shall provide reasonable accommodations of known disabilities to enable a qualified applicant or employee to apply for employment, perform the essential functions of the job, or enjoy the benefits and privileges of employment as required by the law.



Important Information

The above statements are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed by people assigned to this position. They are not intended to be an exhaustive list of all responsibilities, duties and skills required of associates so classified.

The Company is committed to providing equal opportunity in all employment practices without regard to age, race, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, religion, physical or mental disability, or any other category protected by law. As part of this commitment, the Company shall provide reasonable accommodations of known disabilities to enable an applicant or employee to apply for employment, perform the essential functions of the job, or enjoy the benefits and privileges of employment as required by the law.



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