Key Responsibilities
- Frontend Development: Design and implement high-performance, scalable, and responsive user interfaces using Nest.js.
- Backend Development: Develop and maintain robust, scalable APIs and microservices using Node.js and Python, ensuring high availability and performance.
- GKE & Kubernetes Expertise: Design, deploy, and manage highly available, scalable, and secure GKE clusters. Implement best practices for Pod security, networking, and resource management for Nest.js/Node.js/Python applications.
- Application Refactoring: Collaborate with application teams to adapt services for optimal performance and adherence to cloud-native best practices within the GKE environment.
- Monitoring & Logging: Configure and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting solutions, primarily using GCP's Operations suite (Cloud Monitoring/Logging/Trace), to ensure system reliability and performance.
- Documentation & Knowledge Transfer: Create comprehensive technical documentation for the environment, procedures, and operational runbooks, and mentor junior team members.
Full Stack Application & Programming
- 4+ years of hands-on experience developing full-stack applications.
- Deep expertise with Nest.js, React, and associated ecosystem tools.
- Strong working knowledge of Node.js application architecture, package management (npm/yarn), and building scalable backend services.
- Proven experience with Python for backend development, scripting, or data processing tasks.
- Understanding of microservices architecture.
- Experience with Git and standard branching/merge strategies.
Cloud & Platform Expertise
- 4+ years of hands-on experience with a major public cloud provider; strong preference for Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- Must-Have GCP Services: GKE, Cloud IAM, Cloud Build, Artifact Registry, and Cloud Monitoring/Logging.
- Deep expertise with Kubernetes deployment, scaling, security, and operations.
Desired Skills (Good to Have)
- GCP Cloud certification.
- Familiarity with container security scanning tools and vulnerability management in a Kubernetes context.
- Experience with advanced Kubernetes networking concepts like NetworkPolicy, CNI plugins, and exposure to service discovery tools.
- Familiarity with relational and NoSQL databases in a cloud context (e.g., Cloud SQL, MongoDB, PostgreSQL).
Education
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
Top Skills
What We Do
Egen is a data engineering and cloud modernization firm partnering with leading Chicagoland companies to launch, scale, and modernize industry-changing technologies. We are catalysts for change who create digital breakthroughs at warp speed. Our team of cloud and data engineering experts are trusted by top clients in pursuit of the extraordinary.
Our mission is to be an enabler of amazing possibilities for companies looking to use the power of cloud and data. We want to stand shoulder to shoulder with clients, as true technology partners, and make sure they succeed at what they have set out to do. We want to be disruptors, game-changers, and innovators who have played an important part in moving the world forward.
