Senior Software Architect - Plex

Rockwell Automation is a global technology leader focused on helping the world’s manufacturers be more productive, sustainable, and agile. With more than 28,000 employees who make the world better every day, we know we have something special. Behind our customers - amazing companies that help feed the world, provide life-saving medicine on a global scale, and focus on clean water and green mobility - our people are energized problem solvers that take pride in how the work we do changes the world for the better.

We welcome all makers, forward thinkers, and problem solvers who are looking for a place to do their best work. And if that’s you we would love to have you join us!

Job Description

To support our ongoing growth, we are looking for a Sr. Software Architect with strong API and containerization experience. The Site Reliability Team prides itself as a group of engineers who believe and work towards continuous improvement culture. As a member of our team you will contribute to our transformation from monolithic to microservices architecture and adoption of open source technologies. You have the opportunity to shape the technologies that make up our stack. Helping us to improve the reliability, scalability and security of the products we deliver to our customers and ensure issues are resolved in an organized and efficient manner.

You will be reporting directly to the Senior Manager of the SRE team, working on our projects and larger initiatives involving Operations, Development, DevOps and other Platform related teams.

Your Responsibilities:

• You will work with engineers across the organization to obtain requirements, scope solutions and deliver functionality internally
• Develop systems that work with each other through versioned contracts
• API development knowledge - understanding different API specifications (Open API, OData, etc.) and different integration patterns (REST-like vs. RPC)
• Experience working with APIs programmatically
• Containerization of existing applications
• Load and performance testing
• Stay informed about relevant technology trends and developments
• Participate in professional development activities to stay current on industry knowledge and cross train international team members.

The Essentials - You Will Have:

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent years of relevant work experience
• Legal authorization to work in the U.S. We will not sponsor individuals for employment visas, now or in the future, for this job opening.

The Preferred - You Might Also Have:

• Typically requires 8+ years of relevant software development or architectural experience
• Experience in:
• Containerization and orchestration technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, Maven, GitLab
• Messaging technologies
• K8s and Helm, Flux, etc
• Developing production ready applications with strict service level agreements attached to them.
• Design/coding skillset and testing methodologies
• .Net Core - middleware, hosting, serialization configuration, advanced dependency injection configuration, memory management/optimizations
• Library development
• Knowledge of:
• Microsoft SQL Server stored procedures
• Microsoft SQL Server tables, schemas, and relationships.
• How a presentation, application, and data layer interact
• Understanding of different architectural patterns outside of 2-Tier architecture

What We Offer:

• Health Insurance including Medical, Dental and Vision
• 401k
• Paid Time off
• Parental and Caregiver Leave
• Flexible Work Schedule where you will work with your manager to enjoy a work schedule that can be flexible with your personal life.
• To learn more about our benefits package, please visit at www.raquickfind.com.

We are committed to equal employment opportunity regardless of race, color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, gender, gender identity or expression, or veteran status. We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace.

At Rockwell Automation we are dedicated to building a diverse, inclusive and authentic workplace, so if you're excited about this role but your experience doesn't align perfectly with every qualification in the job description, we encourage you to apply anyway. You may be just the right person for this or other roles.

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