Application Engineer

Description:

As an Application Reliability Engineer, you’ll tap into your passion for finding and fixing inefficiencies to solve our reliability and performance issues. In our Agile environment, you’ll focus on availability, latency, performance, efficiency, change and problem management, monitoring, emergency response and capacity planning of our services. Your projects will deliver enhanced infrastructure, development, and deployment automation at Discover. Actively manages and escalates risk and customer-impacting issues within the day-to-day role to management.

Responsibilities

Analyze, design, program, test, and deploy new user stories and features with high quality (security, reliability, operations) to production

Tends to Associate Application Engineers by providing learning tasks as well as work related tasks, directs the work of Senior Associate Application Engineers, and helps them continue to grow

Achieves team commitments (and influence others to do the same) by using informal leadership & highly developed communication skills

Has an oversight on design decisions and guides team to achieve key results for products assigned to them

Remediates issues using engineering principles and creates proactive design solutions for potential failures

Contributes to and leads technology communities at Discover

Minimum Qualifications

At a minimum, here’s what we need from you:
Bachelors – Computer Science or related

Information Technology, (Software) Engineering, or related

Internal applicants only: technical proficiency rating of competent on the Dreyfus engineering scale

Preferred Qualifications

Bonus Points If You Have:
Background in DevOps and software development as a “hands on” engineer.

Excellent understanding of application delivery, DevOps/SRE and SDLC

Strong ability to track and contribute to technical discussions around application integration and CI/CD pipelines

Ability to translate functional and non-functional requirements into appropriate technical stories and acceptance criteria