Software Engineer

Job title: Software Engineer

At Bristol Myers Squibb, our employees often ask, “Who are you working for?”—a question that fuels collaboration, accountability, and urgency in our work. Our purpose-driven culture inspires us to discover, develop, and deliver innovative medicines to prevail over serious diseases. We offer uniquely interesting and meaningful work, opportunities for growth, and a supportive environment that values inclusion, wellbeing, flexibility, and comprehensive benefits. This is work that transforms the lives of patients, and the careers of those who do it.

Summary:

The position requires an experienced Developer with a strong focus on cloud native services, DevOps, Automation and creating reusable platforms. The ideal candidate should have expertise in designing complex systems, self-service user and admin portals and cloud-based services, with expert-level experience in AWS and additional experience in GCP or Azure being a plus.

The candidate must be able to develop, analyze and design end to end Cloud-Native solutions that automate complex tasks and simplify user experience. The candidate should have a deep understanding of DevOps/Infrastructure-As-Code (IaC) delivery models, Cloud: Network, Security, Application architecture, and usage models. The candidate must be experienced with Agile, DevOps and test-oriented system design philosophies, as well as ability to interface with other teams that may need education on cloud and DevOps best practices.

Skills - Must Have

• The ideal candidate must be a strong developer and have experience using AWS services beyond just EC2s and Databases. Expertise in serverless, managed services, API-Governance, Basic Networking is required.

• Strong understanding of basic cloud networking is required to assist in troubleshooting and designing optimized solutions.

• The candidate must have hands-on experience with cloud projects and will be expected to demonstrate the ability to deliver quality script, code and test suites.

• Must have working experience with deep-dive HTTPS troubleshooting,

• Must have lots of experience with REST API and design, GraphQL and React/CSS front end.

• Skilled with JavaScript, NodeJS and Python, especially in Lambda and Beanstalk environment.

• Coach and develop other employees and be a technology leader and resolve difficult technical roadblocks.

• The candidate should have demonstrated knowledge or experience with CloudFormation at scale and reuse, and the ability to influence multiple workstreams with reusable IaC components.

• The candidate should also have experience in developing multi-region, serverless solutions on AWS and addressing all non-functional and AWS Well-Architected concerns in the design.

• Must be able to design for end-user simplicity while ensuring the system can handle complexity and exceptions internally.

• The candidate should have experience in breaking down projects into MVP and Agile deliverables, delivering complex end systems incrementally.

• Must be able to design for disaster recovery in IaaS Cloud platform and possess strong scripting skills, such as Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl, PowerShell, SSM, etc.

• Must have experience with managing substantial numbers of cloud accounts consistently using automation. Cloud SDK, CLI and scripting hands-on knowledge is necessary.

• Good listener and communicator. Strong verbal, non-verbal diagramming, and written communication skills, with the ability to work effectively across internal and external organizations

• Experience with working and building an automated build-pipeline, continuous integration, and continuous deployment. Experience with source code control repositories

• In-depth understanding of Interface-Contracts, Loosely Coupled designs and simplifying solutions and reducing TCO for the end-to-end picture. Skills - Preferred

• Experience creating and maintaining an Enterprise Internal Development Platform or equivalent highly reusable components or services.

• Prior success in automating a real-world problem from manual parts

• Expertise in Cloud security and access models

• Management of continuous integration servers like AWS Code Pipeline, Code Build.

• Familiarity with monitoring tools

• Strong practical Linux and Windows-based server configuration, CLI, Script and automation skills, particularly in a Cloud environment.

• Skilled with producing well-designed UX with self-service solutions using Reacts GUI using REST/GraphQL API securely is a big plus.

• Experience with seamless/automated build scripts used for release management across environments.

• AWS Service Catalog experience is a big plus.

• Experience with automated testing and unit test tools and processes is a big plus

• Experience building and supporting serverless automation in AWS

• Expertise in PaaS, and SaaS methodologies, network integration and controls

• Experience architecting micro-service based cloud solutions

Responsibilities

• Be Developer & Engineer that the team depends on tackle difficult problems, produce automation, and prove out abstract solutions.

• Create and provide long-term technical leadership and vision for teams by guiding other internal development teams on cloud architecture, engineering, and operational standards.

• Troubleshoot difficult cases, especially those involving full range of cloud, system, network problems, including helping other teams with systems that we did not build.

• Architect, build, and support systems in collaboration with other departments and colleagues

• Consider designs for long term, scale, resiliency, Cost, Security, and maintainability.

• Quickly learn new services as they come out of AWS, Azure and GCP.

• Work on a wide range of innovative Cloud uses cases.

• Create code-assets and tools to accelerate cloud projects.

• Will be an automation advocate - you genuinely believe in removing operation load with software. Ability to automate manual processes and write code to expediate detection and mitigation of issues in the environment.

• Work with other app-dev teams to develop new cloud hosted services

• Partner with service providers both internal and external to design and implement cloud data systems in the BMS cloud environment.

• Education and training of teams

• Document, Design/Build automation tools and APIs Educational, Professional, and Technical Expertise:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or commensurate experience.

• At least 5+ years of experience in cloud computing, software development and/or Cloud Center of Excellence (COE) as a hands-on coding role.

• At least 3+ years of experience working with AWS as a senior developer

• Strong knowledge of cloud computing platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud

• Willingness to occasionally work in a 24x7 on-call cycle to manage escalations.

• Strong verbal and written communication skills (content creation such as whitepapers, system diagrams, etc.).

• Ability to explain complex technology concepts to both technical and non-technical audiences at all levels in the organization.

Preferred Certifications:

• AWS Certified Developer

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer; Associate or Professional

• AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate a plus

• Any Azure or Google Cloud certification a plus

• We hire for skills and capabilities, not just credentials – if this role excites you, but doesn’t perfectly match your resume, we encourage you to apply anyway.

• How We Work

• Where you work matters – because collaboration, innovation and patient impact happen in many settings. Our roles are structured across four work models: site-essential, site-by-design, field-based and remote-by-design. The model assigned to this role is based on its core responsibilities. Learn more at

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