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Senior AWS Developer Category: Software Development/ Engineering
Main location: Canada, Ontario, Toronto
Position ID:J0926-2211
Employment Type: Full Time
Position Description: This role is hybrid and requires you to be at our downtown Toronto and/or Client office (Downtown) at a minimum 2 days per week subject to change at any time.
Seeking an energetic and experienced AWS Developer to proactively participate in the architecting, development, testing and deployment of a new application in AWS Cloud.
The AWS Developer is expected to support the Lead Developer and drive the overall software development lifecycle including working across functional teams to transform requirements into features, managing development teams and processes, overseeing software testing, and ensuring a successful delivery the project.
Your future duties and responsibilities: . Responsible for writing code using CDK in typescript and node js.
. Responsible for interaction with AWS developers in onshore and offshore locations delivering a client project.
. Work with the AWS Architect and in architecting the solution and ensures that the development of the solution adheres to the approved solution design and client AWS cloud adoption strategies and guidelines.
. Translates user needs into technical specifications by understanding, conceptualizing, and facilitating technical requirements from user.
. Ensures that code/configurations adhere to the security, logging, error handling, and performance standards and non functional requirements.
. Ability to communicate and present solutions and timelines to senior stakeholders within CGI and the client organization.
. Work closely with client PMs and CGI PMs to identify potential risks to the project early and propose solutions to mitigate the risks.
. Provides expert day to day technical support and advice to other AWS developers
. Translate business requirements into technical specifications and build efficient solutions based on specifications.
. Coordinate the development team schedule and ensure effective communication between team members and other functional areas.
. Hands on on experience on AWS, work closely with customer on solutioning and support Product owner to define requirements and map to AWS technical solutions.
. Ability to manage both Waterfall and Agile projects
. Responsible for directing the development team in the design, development, coding, testing and debugging of applications.
. Responsible for documenting and ensuring a project to support handover is conducted
. Works independently on a range of complex tasks, which may include unique situations
Required qualifications to be successful in this role: Must Have skills:
. Bachelor's degree in computer science, Software Engineering, or a related field
. 5 to 7 years of experience as an AWS Developer with hands on knowledge on AWS CDK using Node js and typescript . [AWS CDK using Node js and typescript is a must]
. Strong understanding of serverless architecture and microservices, with hands on experience in implementing scalable AWS solutions
. Good Knowledge on AWS Reactive Architecture, Event Driven applications, API development and Node JS, Typescript
. Strong knowledge on AWS Alerts, VPC, API Gateway, Lambda functions, S3, Step Functions, Dynamo & Aurora DB databases, SNS , SQS, Cloudwatch
. Familiarity with AWS infrastructure as code tools like CloudFormation or Terraform for automating cloud deployments
. Solid grasp of security best practices within AWS, including IAM roles, VPCs, and encryption mechanisms
. Experience with version control systems like Git, Github, Bitbucket, JIRA and promoting code integrity and collaboration in a cloud based environment
. Familiarity with IDE: Visual Studio Code. Other tools like Postman, SOAP UI
. Awareness: Software Development Life Cycle, Software Project Management
. Software Testing: Unit Testing, Integration Testing
. Exceptional communication skills, enabling clear and effective interaction with both technical and non technical team members and stakeholders
. Provides expert day to day technical support of a range of Java and Cloud based applications.
. Experience in leading the development team on projects migrating on prem solutions to AWS Cloud
. Experience with mission critical payments application will be an added advantage
CGI is providing a reasonable estimate of the pay range for this role. The determination of this range includes factors such as skill set level, geographic market, experience and training, and licenses and certifications. Compensation decisions depend on the facts and circumstances of each case. A reasonable estimate of the current range is $85,000-$135,000. This role is an existing vacancy.
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Skills: - Amazon Web Services Cloud
- Bitbucket
- CloudWatch
- Financial Services
- GIT
- GitHub
- Integration testing
- Java
- Jira
- Node.Js
- RESTful (Rest-APIs)
- Software Testing
- Typescript
- Unit Testing
- Visual Studio Code
