Cache/API architect per Scrum team - Long tgerm Contract

Pyramid is a leading Information Technology Consulting services company headquartered in metropolitan Atlanta, GA with prime emphasis on the following service offerings:
• Staff Augmentation
• Lifecycle IT solutions
o Application Development & Support
o Outsourced Testing
• Mobile Development and Test Automation

The company was incorporated in the State of Georgia in 1996 and has grown to over 2500 Information Technology consultants serving clients across the United States and around the globe. In addition to Atlanta, Pyramid has offices worldwide including Charlotte, NC; Chicago, IL; Dallas, TX; Richmond, VA; San Francisco, CA and Somerset, NJ in the United States, London in the United Kingdom, Singapore, and three offices in India (New Delhi, Hyderabad and Chandigargh).

Pyramid has been ranked by Staffing Industry Analysts as one of the largest diversity staffing firms specializing in IT and among the fastest growing U.S. staffing firm overall. In addition, Pyramid is a previous winner of the National Minority Supplier Development Council’s Supplier of the Year and has won numerous Supplier of the Year awards from the Georgia Minority Supplier Development Council.see less

SpecialtiesIT Staff Augmentation, Application Management Services, Enterprise Project Solutions, Mobile Development, Mobile Test Automation, Product and Engineering Services, Enterprise Mobility, Test Automation, QA - Manual and Automated Testing, QA Strategy

• Websitehttp://www.pyramidci.com

• IndustryInformation Technology and Services

• TypePrivately Held

• Company Size1001-5000 employees

• Founded1996

Job Description:Responsible for the performance of any/all functions involved in the development and/or maintenance of new or existing capabilities associates with the GRID application. Using programming language and technology, writes code, completes programming and documentation, and performs testing and debugging of applications. Analyzes, designs, programs, debugs and modifies software enhancements and/or new products used in local, networked, or Internet-related computer applications. Will interact with users to define system requirements and/or necessary modifications.Required Skills:8+ Years Experience designing, developing , deploying & Supporting large scale distributed systems8+ Years with Java in a distributed environment 5+ Years of LAN/WAN protocols (TCP, UDP, FTP, JMS etc)5+ Years of Data Serialization formats (Avro, POF, Thrift, JSON, XML etc…)5+ Building fault tolerance and failover patterns into Distributed Systems3+ Years of Distributed Database Design and Development at large scale (Coherence, Cassandra etc..)3+ Years of Data Loading experience in a Distributed Data Base environment3+ Years of Data scalability and multi-tenant data architectures3+ Years of Data architecture and implementation using local or cloud-based storage and NoSQL data stores3+ Years of Performance and optimization in a large distributed system environmentThe Ideal candidate will also have:Experience with or Knowledge of ZooKeeperExperience with Hardware (specifically tailoring HW for Distributed Systems)Experience with creating Tools, Test Harnesses and Developer utilitiesExperience with Machine Learning methods and toolsExperience with Agile & Test Driven Development Excellent Communication and Presentation skillsExperience with Git and Gerrit

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