Associate Python AWS Developer

NextEra Energy; Miami (FL); On-site; USD 52,000 - 76,000; Full time

Job summary

NextEra Energy is seeking an Associate IT Programmer Analyst to help engineer and develop cloud automation and self-service capabilities. You will join the Enterprise Compute team modernizing our enterprise compute platform and work with senior team members to implement predefined processes and create new solutions.

You will assess and integrate technology to develop cloud infrastructure processes, automation, and vendor-provided software, ensuring reliability, security and performance of

Qualifications

• Excellent interpersonal, written and verbal communication abilities.
• Strong problem solving and analytical capabilities.
• Growth mindset; willingness to learn new skills and frameworks.
• Understanding of software development lifecycle and DevOps concepts.
• Experience with on-prem systems infrastructure and cloud tools.
• Familiarity with Agile project planning and execution.
• Knowledge of cloud networking, security and AWS services.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders to understand requirements and translate them into solutions.
• Investigate and propose design and development approaches.
• Estimate scope of work and forecast solutions value.
• Implement unit/integration tests and conduct performance testing where relevant.
• Develop reusable software components for faster delivery.
• Prepare technical documentation and knowledge base articles.

Skills

Interpersonal skills

Communication skills

Problem solving

Growth mindset

Software development lifecycle

On-prem infrastructure

Agile methodologies

DevOps tooling

Cloud networking

Cloud security basics

AWS knowledge

Education

Bachelor's or equivalent

Tools

Github

Jenkins

AWS (CloudFormation, EC2, Lambda, S3)

RDS

Config

SSM

CloudWatch

Job description

Position Specific Description

Our team provides cloud and on-premise compute platform services to internal IT customers. We are continually enhancing and expanding those services to meet our organization’s needs. We treat these services as products with a focus on providing value to our internal IT customers. The Associate IT Programmer Analyst is a first level professional with a desire to engineer and develop cloud automation and self-service capabilities. This role will be part of the Enterprise Compute team that is modernizing our enterprise compute platform. The Associate Programmer Analyst works closely with senior team members in order to implement predefined processes and assist with the creation of new solutions.

Job Overview

This position assesses, designs, and integrates technology to develop cloud infrastructure processes and automation. Employee works on development initiatives for application teams usage and configuring and customizing vendor-provided packaged software. This position works to ensure the reliability, performance, security, and continuity of developed systems.

Required Skills

• General interpersonal skills in areas such as teamwork and knowledge-sharing
• General written and verbal communication skills
• General problem solving and analytical skills
• Growth mindset and a willingness to learn new skills, technologies, and frameworks.
• Understanding of software development lifecycles
• General on-prem systems infrastructure expertise
• Intermediate Agile methodology knowledge for projects planning and execution
• Intermediate DEVOPS tools knowledge for software control and deployment automation such as Github, and Jenkins
• Intermediate cloud networking knowledge of routing, firewalls, load balancing on public and private networks
• Intermediate cloud security knowledge of Identity and Access Management and Active Directory
• Intermediate AWS cloud tools and services knowledge such as Cloud Formation, compute (EC2, lambda) storage (RDS, S3), configuration and monitoring (Config, SSM, Cloudwatch) and others.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Collaborate with stakeholders (e.g. application and IT teams stakeholders, product owners, and project managers) to understand functional and non-functional requirements
• Investigate and propose solutions to development and design problems
• Participate in scope of work estimation, forecasting and solutions business value
• Implement unit and integration tests and conduct functional and performance testing where appropriate.
• Develop reusable software building blocks to enable faster delivery
• Prepare technical documentation, including software design evaluation plans, test results, technical manuals and knowledge base articles.

Job Overview

This position assesses, designs, develops, integrates and troubleshoots technology to support business processes. Employees provide technical or functional guidance to project or work teams, as needed within specific or multiple disciplines. This position works to ensure the reliability, performance, security, and continuity of IT systems, as well as to ensure that excellent technical support services are provided.

Job Duties & Responsibilities

• Analyzes, designs, develops, tests, debugs, implements, maintains, integrates, customizes and enhances existing or new systems
• Applies appropriate Agile or development methodologies, system development lifecycles, tools, and technology
• Automates the handoff of code releases from development to operations (DevOps)
• Participates in the change management and service ticket management processes including receiving, resolution monitoring, and ensuring customer satisfaction
• Builds strong working understanding of the solution being delivered
• Ensures user satisfaction by providing preventative maintenance, troubleshooting, and timely resolution of more complex problems
• Designs, develops, and tests experimental application work to test new ideas with bounded cost and time frames
• Ensures that applications processes are conducted in line with corporate social responsibility, security, compliance, environmental, and technical policies and applicable standards and legislation
• Acts as liaison with regulatory agencies, vendors, and contractors on matters relating to computer systems as required
• Defines metrics and monitors Service Level Agreements (SLAs) for systems being developed
• Performs other job-related duties as assigned

Required Qualifications

• High School Grad / GED
• Bachelor’s or Equivalent Experience
• Experience: 0+ years