Software Development Engineer II

Optimum•Town of Oyster Bay, NY

35d

About The Position

Optimum is a leading provider of Mobile, Broadband (DOCSIS, Fiber) and Video services in the United States. The Product Development organization is responsible for the technology enablement and development of these technologies for our customers along with the tools used by our teams to support them. Reporting to the Engineering Manager, the SDE II DevOps Toolchain will participate as part of a highly skilled software development team to build the tools, processes and automation frameworks that will improve productivity, drive efficiency, and ensure the quality and reliability of our software products. We are looking for a passionate and engaged individual who is willing to take on the challenge of transforming software development at a Fortune 500 company and building the tools that will allow our development teams to Go Fast!

Requirements

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.

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.