Capacity Engineer

Posted 15 days ago

Job Details

Contract

Location

Vancouver, BC

Salary

dollar sign 70 to 85 per hour

Job Description

6-month contract Capacity Engineer role with a global enterprise organization working within their rapidly growing engineering team.

6-month contract Capacity Engineer role
Global enterprise organization
Hybrid work environment with 3 days a week in office.

What & Why:
As a result of investment in technology our global enterprise organization is looking to add a Capacity Engineer to their engineering team. You are someone who can run tests and also has solid development skills for the in-house tooling they are developing. As a Capacity Engineer, you will work closely with engineering teams and product owners to provide capacity testing services. Your goal is to ensure the e-commerce platform is capable of supporting peak traffic loads without a degradation in performance. Your recommendations will be focused on improvement and optimization of the code base, validation of software releases, and infrastructure capacity planning. You will also work with tools teams to assist in the development of our internal platform. You are experienced in cloud platforms, creating capacity tests, establishing best practices, generating reports based on the results of the tests and analyzing the results. You will work with engineering teams to create KPIs, establish a test plan, automate the test, and record results. This is an awesome time to join this organization as they gear up for serious growth!

Who:
This client is one of the most recognizable Canadian brands, a true Vancouver success story who has expanded globally. They are well known for their corporate culture and has won major awards for their accomplishments. They have invested majorly in technology and have had an incredibly successful past few years, including a major strategic acquisition. They have an all-star leadership team who keeps you accountable and provides support while still affording you tremendous autonomy. They are located close to rapid transit in newly renovated offices in downtown Vancouver and have a hybrid work environment with 3 days a week in office.

You:
You will bring the following education, skills and experience to the role:

Active development in 2 languages a must, Python, plus Java or Javascript
Working knowledge of Unix command line a must (ssh, scp, vi/nano, grep, awk, sed), Linux shell script development
Expert understanding of web technologies - HTTPS, headers, cookies, JSON, GraphQL, sessions, CDN, firewalls
AWS/Azure IaC creating IAM policies/roles, VPC subnets/routes, ECS tasks, EC2/User Data, Quotas
Development with containers, Python development, DockerFile creation
Agile developer working with Jira, Git, Peer Review, and CI/CD
Solid communicator, adept at scope planning, communicates risks early, asks for help when stuck!

Next Steps:
If the sound of this opportunity excites you, and you’re confident that it’s a good fit for your experience and career goals, then we’d love to hear from you! Please send your updated resume to us by applying to this posting and one of our awesome team of recruiters will be in touch.

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