Service Mesh Engineer
Job#: 2019798
Job Description:
Apex Systems combines with parent company ASGN Inc. to make it the 2nd largest IT staffing agency in the country.
Apex has an opportunity for a Service Mesh Engineer. If interested in discussing the position further, please send an MS Word version of your resume to Corey Smith at [email protected] and mention Job ID 2019798
Job Title: Service Mesh Engineer
Compensation: $65-70/hr on Apex W2
Location: Jacksonville, FL or Chandler, AZ (Hybrid)
Job Type: 12-month contract to hire project
We are looking for an experienced Microservices Service Mesh engineer with practical experience in transitioning a service-based application to use HashiCorp Consul. The existing application uses Python FastAPI/Flask running on Linux servers in a VMware virtualized environment. While there is no use of cloud/containers, that would be a longer term direction.
Key responsibilities include:
- Understanding the existing application services and ensuring they meet microservice requirements
- Designing a Service Mesh using HashiCorp Consul to provide resilient, secure, scalable and easily deployable services for the application
- Working with the development team to bring the existing application services into the service mesh
- Working with the development team to handle account vaulting
- Understanding development and testing practices of the bank and adhering to all security policies from development through deployment.
- Contributing to story refinement/defining requirements and designing solutions.
- Roadmap and estimating work necessary to realize the solution delivery.
- Creating proofs of concept as necessary to mitigate risk or implement new ideas.
- Coding solutions and unit test to deliver a requirement/story per the defined acceptance criteria and compliance requirements.
- Resolving technical issues in a structured way.
- Creating test suites (integration, regression, performance), analyzing test reports, identifying any test issues/errors, and triaging the underlying cause.
- Documenting and communicating required information for deployment, maintenance, support, and business functionality.
- Participating, contributing and coaching team members
Required Job Skills:
- Expert with microservice architecture using HashiCorp Consul service mesh
- Fluent in Python for REST/JSON applications using Flask, FastAPI
- Fluent with Agile methodology and using Jira to create user stories, track requirements, design and development
- Competently documents solutions and is able to discuss them with other teams
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