Cloud Data Platforming Engineering Consultant - Full-time / Part-time

JOIN US AS A Cloud Data Platform Engineering Consultant - Cassandra

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You can be part of an exciting, fast moving team that enables innovation and transformation as Target leverages and creates and creates cutting edge technology solutions. We are looking for a highly motivated individual who can lead and do, is willing to learn, and wants to help build the craft of cloud technology within Target. The key to the success of this position is having strong & innovative approach to problem solving, great technical leadership, excellent communication (written and verbal, formal and informal), flexibility, and a self-motivated working style with attention to detail.

Use your skills, experience and talents to be a part of groundbreaking thinking and visionary goals. As a Cloud Data Platform Engineering Consultant, you'll take the lead as you…

• Design and build globally dispersed data platform to enable faster innovation, for all of our Consumer experiences, and delivery industry leading omnichannel experiences
• Define and build new and innovative ways to automate, measure and track stability and resilience of our APIs and platform
• Look across the team to drive innovation and improve our platform as well as proactively monitor the health of our APIs, and identify opportunities for improvements across the platform
• Manage our capacity and threshold metrics
• Full stack troubleshooting, issue resolution
• Assess and help drive adoption of new technologies within the team and across Target
• Refine and mature our continuous integration and deployment pipeline
• Mentor engineers on our team
• Build prototypes to prove out concepts
• Work with the following will be used and experience is preferred:
  • Experience using Splunk, Java, Jmeter, Tomcat, Cassandra, Jenkins, Kafka, GIT, *NIX OS’s, and various third party APIs
  • Experience using Chef, Storm, or Spock a plus
  • Has in-depth knowledge art engineering technical approaches in design, build, testing, debugging problems as required by domain
  • Maintains technical knowledge within areas of expertise

Requirements

• BA/BS or equivalent experience
• 8-10 years total work experience
• Passionate about new and evolving technologies and willing to push its application throughout the company
• Personal or professional experience contributing to open source projects
• Highly productive coder, self-starter and self-motivated
• Stays current with new and evolving technologies via formal training and self-directed education