Software Development Manager- UWorld

In addition, this role requires staff mentoring, process adherence, code reviews, project leadership and complex software design knowledge.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or foreign academic equivalent in Computer Science or a related field

• 5 years of experience in software development
• 3 years of experience managing software services and development teams

• Excellent interpersonal skills with demonstrated ability to articulate ideas clearly, concisely, and persuasively
• Excellent attention to detail and organization skills
• Ability to take direction and feedback
• Exceptional follow-through, personal drive, and desire to make a difference
• Ability to lead, mentor and support software developers, and leads
• Be able to architect, design and develop highly scaled and available applications
• Familiarity with Agile practices.
• Good understanding of Docker and Kubernetes container orchestration
• Experience with deployment of infrastructure and applications in Azure (including VNETs, Load Balancers etc.)
• Strong knowledge of Microsoft web server(IIS) and Linux web server (Apache) administration
• Experience with setting up and maintaining API gateways (Kong experience preferred).
• Experience with(or knowledge of) helm and/or kustomize
• Excellent knowledge of scripting languages(Python, Perl or Bash) and tools (Azure CLI)
• Able to create CI/CD pipelines that deploy to the Cloud
• Experience with Jenkins and VNET programming is preferred but not required
• Operational and/or development experience in the cloud (PaaS and SaaS)
• Experience working with databases (MSSQL/MySQL/PostGreSQL) and strong understanding of system and networking concepts and troubleshooting techniques.

• Lead and supervise development of scalable software applications
• Own the platform reliability, uptime, scaling.
• Own the complete DevOps process (source code to release) for all deployments
• Create processes to build and deploy, monitor and maintain software/platforms
• Deploy containerized services and PaaS configuration to the Cloud
• Define the “forward strategy!”
• Provide day-to-day support and maintenance of Azure Cloud and on-premises environments
• Proactively monitor production environments to identify and fix the issues to avoid any system failures
• Utilizing an automation first approach, develop automation of configuration management
• Configure monitoring and alerting systems for the applications and platform-services.
• Perform troubleshooting on performance issues, automated job failures, high availability solutions and backup/restore issues
• Take ownership of project budget, project communication, project timeline, project risks, reporting project status, project quality, and work in progress
• Collaborate and coordinate with external and internal to identify new requirements for a highly scalable platform, provide updates on current initiatives and identify potential issues with existing systems
• Ensure that team is working efficiently and provide feedback/recommendations around tools or processes that would be beneficial to the organization

• Competitive compensation (contingent on experience)
• Paid time off (based on sliding scale according to hire date and work hours)
• Generous paid holiday schedule that includes the entire week of Christmas off.
• Comprehensive benefits package (medical, vision, dental, fsa, life, disability)
• 401(k) plan for retirement with 4% employer matching (eligibility after 90 days of employment)