The Sr Engineer is responsible for delivering results for the Product Development department by:

• Designing and implementing strategies to improve and automate our environment provisioning, setup and testing processes for both on premise and cloud-based infrastructure.

• Designing and maintaining highly distributed system in a public cloud with distributed storage (hot, warm (SAN), cold)
• Contributing to an Agile (Scrum), or Lean (Kanban), or hybrid team to solve the engineering challenges
• Producing high quality code fast
• Being a dependable and highly skilled development resource for peers
• Having a broad awareness of related projects

 The Sr Engineer performs the following functions, in addition to others:

• Advocates and models coding and collaboration practices, reviews team code, and provides team members with feedback and suggestions for process improvement
• Collaborates with other dev teams regularly to establish an outbound and inbound pipeline of new (to kCura) best practices
• Documents and demonstrates solutions by developing documentation, flowcharts, layouts, diagrams, charts, code comments and clear code

• Oversees the application environment to effectively run and maintain the technology and recommend any potential technology or process improvements with an emphasis on cloud computing and configuration management platforms.

• Improves operations by conducting systems analysis; recommending changes in policies and procedures
• Encourages pair programming to communicate design knowledge throughout the scrum team
• Thinks out loud- talks about design thoughts all the time
• Provide development expertise to team members through education and review
• Always open to new ideas and encourages innovative practices amongst peers
• Works collaboratively with QA professionals to encourage defect prevention over detection

The Sr Engineer may be required to handle technical support calls after hours about two times a year. If Client Services is working on a ticket and they are not able to solve an urgent issue, they will reach out to the level I developer to assist to get the issue resolved.

In addition to the above responsibilities, the Sr Software Engineer is expected to display professionalism in the following ways:

• Maintain an attitude of commitment through outward display of willingness
• Practice positive interactions - lean on encouragement in place of judgment
• Impress responsibility on others by displaying ownership in tasks
• Act in the interest of the overall team
• Understand the needs of our customers

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