Senior Elastic Search Engineer

About Contour

Contour Software has grown from a dozen people to over 2,000 staff across 3 cities, in less than 14 years.
 

As a subsidiary of Constellation Software Inc., we are proud to be part of a global enterprise software conglomerate that has grown to become one of the top 10 software companies in the world, with employees and customers in 100+ countries. With a broad-based and ever-growing portfolio of market-leading, vertical-market enterprise solutions covering more than 100 industry domains in predominantly mature markets, CSI's recipe creates the perfect environment for professionals to build fulfilling, long-term careers.
 

What started as an R&D & Accounting back-office, has progressed into a full-service Global Centre serving all functions and departments, at the divisional as well as operating group/corporate level. Today Contour employees, located in Karachi, Lahore & Islamabad, are serving CSI divisions located in time zones spanning the globe, from Sydney to Vancouver. With the global growth of Constellation as the wind in our sails, we are only just getting started

The Position:
A Senior Elastic Search Engineer is responsible for helping to architect, design, and implement key features and components in our AWS mission-critical platform by building micro-services and designing serverless applications in AWS to support our real estate data business.
From a technical perspective, this role requires working with many of the major AWS offerings including services, such as Lambda, Step Functions, Kinesis, Dynamo, Redshift, Scaling EC2 and CloudWatc h as examples. An understanding of Serverless design patterns and how and when to implement auto-scaling to ensure optimal throughput is essential.
Aside from the architecture and design, a Sr. Cloud Engineer must be an AWS cloud evangelist who loves teaching, mentoring and growing the talent around him/her. A team leader who enjoys making the team around him or her better. Leads by example.
Lastly, at times this role will require someone to lead a project and small team for the sake of building or enhancing a particular product or feature. This means working on a new project from initiation, design, architecture, planning, estimating, tracking and helping others on the team see the vision and develop in unison as a cohesive team that delivers incremental customer usable features on-time.

JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Help oversee architecture of real estate data pipeline.
• Develop pipeline components that are scalable, reliable and efficient.
• Continual oversight of the overall architecture ensuring the overall system doesn't erode or become overly complex as time passes and features are added.
• Perform Project and Team lead duties as needed for new core features.
• Code reviews, mentoring and coaching teammates to understand and implement AWS best practices in line with an "AWS Well-Architected Framework" .
• Provide feedback and constructive critiques resulting in optimum performance and system design .
• Continual tracking of component and overall system performance by applying and automating application and performance best practice testing, monitoring and reporting.
• Provide input and recommendations on managing costs within our AWS infrastructure at micro and macro levels.

JOB QUALIFICATIONS

• We are seeking a Sr. Cloud Engineer that has familiarity with AWS Serverless architectures and has 4+ years of systems engineering/administration experience with Elastic Search. Candidate must have experience which demonstrates an understanding software design as it relates to Elasticsearch or OpenSearch deployments, indexing and querying. Estimated 50/50 split between general AWS and Elastic Search development.
• 5+ years of professional coding experience with 3+ years in cloud services.
• Experience in major AWS event-driven, compute and database solutions, including but not limited to:
  • Lambda, OpenSearch, Step Functions, SQS, Dynamo, Aurora and/or RDS (candidates with experience in both NoSQL and relational are preferred)
• C#/.Net Framework experience preferred.
• Understanding of developing microservices in AWS.
• Understanding of CI/CD principles.
• 4+ years of experience with Elastic Stack cluster architecture, design and deployment.
• 2+ years of working with and understanding software design as it relates to Elasticsearch deployments or distributed computing / system architecture.
• Reporting and alerting tools such as Grafana, Kibana, Cloudwatch, Quicksight etc.

Exciting Benefits we offer:

• Market-leading Salary
• Medical Coverage – Self & Dependents
• Parents Medical Coverage
• Provident Fund
• Employee Performance-based bonuses
• Home Internet Subsidy
• Conveyance Allowance
• Profit Sharing Plan [Tenured Employees Only]
• Life Benefit
• Child Care Facility
• Company Provided Lunch/Dinner
• Professional Development Budget
• Recreational area for in-house games
• Sporadic On-shore training opportunities
• Friendly work environment
• Leave Encashment

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