Java Dev Google Cloud Practice Engineer (Cloud Engineer – IV)

As a full spectrum integrator, we assist hundreds of companies to realize the value, efficiency, and productivity of the cloud. We take customers on their journey to enable, operate, and innovate using cloud technologies – from migration strategy to operational excellence and immersive transformation.

If you like a challenge, you’ll love it here, because we’re solving complex business problems every day, building and promoting great technology solutions that impact our customers’ success. The best part is, we’re committed to you and your growth, both professionally and personally. 

You will be part of a team designing, automating, and deploying services on behalf of our customers to the cloud in a way that allows these services to automatically heal themselves if things go south. We have deep experience applying cloud architecture techniques in virtually every industry. Every week is different and the problems you will be challenged to solve are constantly evolving. We build solutions using infrastructure-as-code so our customers can refine and reuse these processes again and again – all without having to come back to us for additional deployments.

Key Responsibilities
Create well-designed, documented, and tested software features that meet customer requirements.
Identify and address product bugs, deficiencies, and performance bottlenecks.
Participate in an agile delivery team, helping to ensure the technical quality of the features delivered across the team, including documentation, testing strategies, and code.
Help determine technical feasibility and solutions for business requirements.
Remain up-to-date on emerging technologies and architecture and propose ways to use them in current and upcoming projects.
Leverage technical knowledge to cut scope while maintaining or achieving the overall goals of the product.
Leverage technical knowledge to improve the quality and efficiency of product applications and tools.
Willingness to travel to client locations and deliver professional services
Qualifications
Experience developing software in GCP, AWS, or Azure
5+ yrs experience developing applications in Java
3+ years required with at least one other programming language such as Node.js, Scala, Python, Go, C#, Typescript, Ruby.
Experience with relational databases, including designing complex schemas and queries.
Experience developing within distributed systems or a microservice based architecture.
Strong verbal and written communication skills for documenting workflows, tools, or complex areas of a codebase.
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment and multi-task efficiently.
Strong analytical and troubleshooting skills.
3+ years of experience as a technical specialist in Customer-facing roles
Experience with Agile development methodologies
Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Delivery (CI/CD)
Preferred Qualifications
Experience with GCP
Building applications using Container and serverless technologies
Cloud Certifications
Good exposure to Agile software development and DevOps practices such as Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Continuous Integration and automated deployment
Exposure to Continuous Integration (CI) tools (e.g. Jenkins)
Strong practical application development experience on Linux and Windows-based systems
Experience working directly with customers, partners or third-party developers

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For applicants working in California, Colorado, Washington, or New York City, we are excited to share the base salary ranges for this position exclusive of fringe benefits or potential bonus.  The successful candidate’s starting pay will be determined based on job-related skills, experience, qualifications, work location, and market conditions. 

•The anticipated starting pay range of California, Washington state and New York City applicants for this role is $112,600 – $150,130.  

•The anticipated starting pay range of Colorado applicants for this role is $103,500 – $137,100.  

Unless already included in the posted pay range and based on eligibility, the role may include variable compensation in the form of bonus commissions, or other discretionary payments.  The discretionary payments are based on company and/or individual performance and may change at any time.  Actual compensation is influenced by a wide array of factors including but not limited to skill set, level of experience, licenses and certifications, and specific work location.

About Rackspace Technology

We are the multicloud solutions experts. We combine our expertise with the world’s leading technologies — across applications, data and security — to deliver end-to-end solutions. We have a proven record of advising customers based on their business challenges, designing solutions that scale, building and managing those solutions, and optimizing returns into the future. Named a best place to work, year after year according to Fortune, Forbes and Glassdoor, we attract and develop world-class talent. Join us on our mission to embrace technology, empower customers and deliver the future.