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 https://careers.bms.com/ways-of-working.

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