Principal Software Engineer

PRINCIPAL SOFTWARE ENGINEER SANTA CLARA, CA 9 MONTH CONTRACT

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This Engineer will be responsible for supporting a new cutting edge application with all underlying applications.

ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS

- Provide leadership in providing maintenance and support of clients web presence including operational monitoring for applications and Servers.
- Analyze system problems to determine root cause; utilize data points such as but not limited to, log analysis, software and hardware monitoring tools.
- Perform system release support, design test plans and schedules, attend business and engineering meetings as needed, and provide feedback where appropriate.
- Participate at operational and release meetings, including communicating changes affecting department.
- Expert knowledge as it relates to troubleshooting and resolving problems quickly and effectively in a production, mission critical environment.
- Lead as team member to improve operational performance through conveyance and interaction with in-house tools and application development/system engineering groups.
- Participate in on-call system administration support including but not limited to weekend and late night availability is expected to service the needs to the business.
- Develop and maintain system administration documentation.
- Operationalize and document tier-1 level support; train and mentor Production Control staff for providing teir-1 support.
- Act as technology lead or resource as needed in support of Application or Infrastructure projects.
- Provide leadership in fostering and maintaining both a positive team culture and service-centric environment.

DESIRED SKILL SET

- Excellent knowledge of Apache Tomcat/Jboss Application Server
- Thorough understanding of Oracle, MySQL, Apache, IIS and other typical services technology components
- Experience with Linux OS
- Good Scripting experience
- Familiarity with tools like wily interoscope, hprof, Optimizeit, jprobe profilers
- Understanding of security principles, best practices architectures, tools and processes
- Knowledge of web technologies and standards: HTML, JavaScript, SQL, JSON, XML, XHTML, SSL/TLS, Wily, Splunk

NICE TO HAVE

- Experience in securing systems and infrastructure
- Knowledge of network architecture, standards and protocols
- Knowledge of Linux internals
- Ability to track activities and anomaly detection
- Experience of working in high secure environments

Dallas-based CompuCom Systems, Inc. is a leading provider of end user enablement, service experience management, and cloud technology services to Fortune 1000 companies. CompuCom partners with enterprises to develop smarter ways they can work, grow, and produce value for their business. Founded in 1987, privately held CompuCom has approximately 11,500 associates and supports more than 4 million end users in North America.