Solution Engineer Senior to Principal

American Electric Power • Columbus, OH

3d • $85,081 - $124,940 • Onsite

About The Position

Part of a larger team delivering high quality technology solutions to the business. Design, develop and install software solutions. Build high-quality, innovative and fully performing software in compliance with internal architecture, development & design standards & best practices. Design, modify, develop, write, implement and troubleshoot software programming applications. Support and/or install software applications. Participate in the testing process through test review and analysis, test witnessing and certification of software. Works within a Waterfall or Agile methodology/framework based team. Collaborates heavily with Project Management, Business Analyst and Infrastructure Job Families. What You'll Do: Responsibilities include one or more of the following for medium to large projects: Develops advanced solutions to resolve customer and prospective customer issues in a logical, creative and structured manner. Align the client’s goals, needs and objectives to the solutions. Communicate issues and status in a clear, timely manner. Interpret specifications and build solutions to those specifications. Generate infrastructure support documentation. Evaluate and propose process improvements. Build and maintain a high level of knowledge about the company's software/hardware products. May provide training and mentoring, as well as work direction, to others on the team. Maintain and support vendor applications used by our developers across our IT organization.

Requirements

• Senior Level: Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field is required. Experience: 5 years of relevant work experience is required. An equivalent combination of education and related experience may be considered.
• Principal Level: Education: Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or related technical field is required. Experience: 7 years relevant work experience is required. An equivalent combination of education and related experience may be considered.

Nice To Haves

• DevOps Tools: GitHub Enterprise Server & Actions Runners JFrog Artifactory & Xray Black Duck Software Inc Coverity, SCA, & Software Risk Manager Atlassian Jira & Idera Xray Eggplant Digital Automation Intelligence & Performance Testing SmartBear ReadyAPI Testing SauceLabs Mobile Testing
• Frameworks: Maven/Ant/Gradle .Net/NuGet Node.js Docker Hugo Helm
• Platforms: Windows Server RedHat Enterprise Server OpenShift/Kubernetes
• Common Languages/Formatting: Python JavaScript/Node.js/Typescript Bash/PowerShell/CMD JSON/Yaml
• Knowledge: Software Development Life-Cycle DevOps/DecSecOps/AppSec SaaS/SaaP Agile/Scrum/Kanban GitHub Actions & Workflows Base Images Industry best practices and standards for DevSecOps
• Databases: SQL PostgreSQL Oracle MySQL
• Tooling : ServiceNow CyberArk
• IDEs: VS Code/Visual Studio/JetBrains IDEA & PyCharm/Eclipse Postman Podman Git Remote Desktop Manager
• Non-Functional: Ability to Troubleshoot Error Logs. Follow Team working agreements and workflows. Communicate technical knowledge effectively and clearly. Ability to manage workload/projects. Ability to write and document clear knowledge base articles. Ability to coach/teach development teams the usage of tools and processes used within the company.

Responsibilities

• Develops advanced solutions to resolve customer and prospective customer issues in a logical, creative and structured manner.
• Align the client’s goals, needs and objectives to the solutions.
• Communicate issues and status in a clear, timely manner.
• Interpret specifications and build solutions to those specifications.
• Generate infrastructure support documentation.
• Evaluate and propose process improvements.
• Build and maintain a high level of knowledge about the company's software/hardware products.
• May provide training and mentoring, as well as work direction, to others on the team.
• Maintain and support vendor applications used by our developers across our IT organization.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees