Senior Integration & Observability Architect

Roberts Recruiting, LLC; Boston (MA); Remote; USD 100,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

A recruiting firm in Boston is seeking a Senior Integration Engineer to enhance enterprise logging and monitoring systems. The ideal candidate will have a solid background in software development, experience with integration solutions, and a strong ability to lead and mentor in an agile environment. This position offers the opportunity to work on cutting-edge technology solutions in a collaborative team setting.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in an engineering role designing and implementing software solutions.
• Strong expertise in Python and Java or other languages.
• Experience with RESTful APIs and data formats like JSON, XML.
• Familiarity with cloud environments such as Azure or AWS.

Responsibilities

• Define patterns for logging and events propagation.
• Design and develop components for logging architecture.
• Manage the software development life cycle of solutions.
• Coach and mentor team members in agile culture.

Skills

Software development

Problem-solving

Data integration

Communication

Agile methodologies

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

Python

Java

SQL Server

AWS

Docker

Job description

Senior Integration Engineer

Job Description

Our Global Cybersecurity Services is seeking a system and data integration expert to join our Engineering & Architecture group. You will be involved in building and managing integrations and components that strengthen our enterprise logging & monitoring posture. The ideal candidate is an excellent problem solver with strong technical knowledge of software development, and systems and data integration; additionally, the engineer will be a self-starter, work well in a team setting and provide technical guidance and leadership.

Are you:

• A focused technology practitioner who can enable best outcomes for the team?
• A pro-active resourceful problem-solver who is results-driven with a passion for building technology solutions?

Senior Integration Engineer

Job Description

Our Global Cybersecurity Services is seeking a system and data integration expert to join our Engineering & Architecture group. You will be involved in building and managing integrations and components that strengthen our enterprise logging & monitoring posture. The ideal candidate is an excellent problem solver with strong technical knowledge of software development, and systems and data integration; additionally, the engineer will be a self-starter, work well in a team setting and provide technical guidance and leadership.

Are you:

• A focused technology practitioner who can enable best outcomes for the team?
• A pro-active resourceful problem-solver who is results-driven with a passion for building technology solutions?

Your responsibilities will include

• Define common patterns for end-to-end logging and events propagation to improve the resiliency and observability of our logging system and develop the solutions that support those patterns.
• Design, develop and implementation of key components and solutions in the logging architecture which include edge logging agents and event collection integrations.
• Ensure all provided solutions exhibit high levels of performance, security, scalability, maintainability, and appropriate reusability and reliability upon deployment.
• Research vendor documentation and resources to understand and validate points of integrations such as APIs, source configurations and protocols.
• Manage the SDLC of solutions and ensure well deployed DevOps processes and pipelines.

• Assess the target (future) state of the enterprise’s logging and observability needs to achieve the business objectives and enable cybersecurity to have the visibility it needs to secure the enterprise.

• Highly knowledgeable and skilled lead working with a team of engineers to develop, deliver and maintain quality custom and vendor software
• Coaching and mentoring team members in an agile engineering culture

Key Requirements

• 4+ years in an engineering role, designing and implementing software and integration solutions
• 4+ years’ software development experience with strong expertise in one or more programming languages: Python and Java or other languages
• Experience with wide range of:
  • endpoint protocols (i.e. REST / SOAP / ODATA / TLS / TCP / UDP)
  • data formats (i.e. JSON / XML / CSV / YAML / AVRO / ..)
• Experience building and/or consuming RESTful APIs
• Experience working on cloud PaaS environments such as Azure, AWS or Google Cloud with understanding of cloud network infrastructure, containerization and cloud architecture.
• Experience working in an Agile and DevOps environment managing sprints;

• Preferred Experience with syslog-ng, Fluentd, open telemetry, LogStash, or other data collection/forwarding/ integration technologies

• Preferred Experience with a Logging Platform such as Devo, Splunk, DataDog, ..
• Ability to efficiently communicate with people of varying seniority and technical backgrounds
• Strong Computer Science background
• Experience with Databases – MS SQL Server, Postgres, etc..
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer/Software Engineering or related field.

Technology and Tools

Centralized Log Collection (Syslog-ng, FluentD, LogStash, LogStash), Devo, Python, Cloud (Azure, AWS), Hashicorp Vault/Consul, DevOps (Jenkins, GitHub Actions, Terraform), ServiceNow, Container Orchestration ( i.e. Docker, Kubernetes, Cloud Foundry, Azure Kubernetes Service, GitHub), Configuration management (Chef), , NodeJS, Databases (i.e. SQL Server, Postgresql, MongoDB), Jira, Confluence