Google announced today it was going to acquire Israeli cloud migration startup, Velostrata. The companies did not share the purchase price. Velostrata helps companies migrate from on-premises datacenters to the cloud, a common requirement today as companies try to shift more workloads to the cloud. It’s not always a simple matter though to transfer those […]
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StubHub bets on Pivotal and Google Cloud as it looks to go beyond tickets
StubHub is best known as a destination for buying and selling event tickets. The company operates in 48 countries and sells a ticket every 1.3 seconds. But the company wants to go beyond that and provide its users with a far more comprehensive set of services around entertainment. To do that, it’s working on changing […]
ServiceNow chatbot builder helps automate common service requests
When it comes to making requests inside a company for new equipment or to learn about HR policies, it can be a frustrating experience for both sides of the equation. HR and IT are probably tired of answering the same questions. Employees are tired of calling a help desk for routine inquiries and waiting for […]
Intel Capital pumps $72M into AI, IoT, cloud and silicon startups, $115M invested so far in 2018
Intel Capital, the investment arm of the computer processor giant, is today announcing $72 million in funding for the 12 newest startups to enter its portfolio, bringing the total invested so far this year to $115 million. Announced at the company’s global summit currently underway in southern California, investments in this latest tranche cover artificial […]
BotChain wants to put bot-to-bot communication on the blockchain
Increasingly we are going to be having bots conducting business on a company’s behalf. As that happens, it is going to require a trust mechanism to ensure that bot-to-bot communication is legitimate. BotChain, a new startup out of Boston wants to be the blockchain for registering bots. The new blockchain, which is built on Ethereum, […]
Microsoft and Red Hat now offer a jointly managed OpenShift service on Azure
Microsoft and Red Hat are deepening their existing alliance around cloud computing. The two companies will now offer a managed version of OpenShift, Red Hat’s container application platform, on Microsoft Azure. This service will be jointly developed and managed by Microsoft and Red Hat and will be integrated into the overall Azure experience. Red Hat […]
Watch the Microsoft Build 2018 keynote live right here
Microsoft is holding its annual Build developer conference this week and the company is kicking off the event with its inaugural keynote this morning. You can watch the live stream right here. The keynote is scheduled to start at 8:30 am on the West Coast, 11:30 am on the East Coast, 4:30 pm in London […]
Microsoft and DJI team up to bring smarter drones to the enterprise
At the Microsoft Build developer conference today, Microsoft and Chinese drone manufacturer DJI announced a new partnership that aims to bring more of Microsoft’s machine learning smarts to commercial drones. Given Microsoft’s current focus on bringing intelligence to the edge, this is almost a logical partnership, given that drones are essentially semi-autonomous edge computing devices. DJI […]
Microsoft brings more AI smarts to the edge
At its Build developer conference this week, Microsoft is putting a lot of emphasis on artificial intelligence and edge computing. To a large degree, that means bringing many of the existing Azure services to machines that sit at the edge, no matter whether that’s a large industrial machine in a warehouse or a remote oil-drilling […]
As Kubernetes grows, a startup ecosystem develops in its wake
Kubernetes, the open source container orchestration tool, came out of Google several years ago and has gained traction amazingly fast. With each step in its growth, it has created opportunities for companies to develop businesses on top of the open source project. The beauty of open source is that when it works, you build a […]
Mesosphere hauls in $125 M Series D investment
Mesosphere, a company that created an operating system of sorts for the modern datacenter, announced today that it has raised $125 million for their Series D round. Today’s investment brings total funding since it formed in 2013 to almost $250 million. The round was led by T. Rowe Price Associates and Koch Disruptive Technologies (KDT). […]
Kubernetes stands at an important inflection point
Last week at KubeCon and CloudNativeCon in Copenhagen, we saw an open source community coming together, full of vim and vigor and radiating positive energy as it recognized its growing clout in the enterprise world. Kubernetes, which came out of Google just a few years ago, has gained acceptance and popularity astonishingly rapidly — and […]
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A minimum of three (3) years of related work experience or any equivalent combination of education and experience which provides the following knowledge, skills and abilities:
- Experience in one or more software languages and technologies including Java, JavaScript, HMTL5, J2EE, Python, etc.
- Extensive experience in full-stack software development using Java, NodeJS, RESTful, HTML/HTML 5, Javascript, JSON, Ajax and CSS technologies.
- Experience building web services, like REST/OAuth/JSON, and a good understanding of microservices architecture.
- Experience with commonly used open source products like Hibernate, Angular, and Maven.
- Experience with automated test tools used during the development process (e.g., Selenium, Cucumber, JUnit).
- Extensive experience with relational database development, database queries, stored procedures, data modeling (e.g., MySQL, MS SQL).
- Experience with NoSQL database technologies like Cassandra, MongoDB, DynamoDB is a plus.
- Experience with application servers like Tomcat, Wildfly, etc.
- Experience with source code/configuration management tools (CVS, GitHub)
- Expertise in a DevOps environment.
- Experience with collaboration tools (e.g., Jenkins, JIRA, Confluence).
- Programming experience on/with Linux platforms.
- Experience and skill in the use of development tools (e.g., databases, report writers) and conventions for the PC, client/server and mainframe environments.
- Strong interpersonal skills.
Key Responsibilities:
· Work within and across teams to provide software solutions for our customers
· Participate in all aspects and ceremonies associated with Agile development
· Determine complexity level of a story in a Sprint/Development cycle
· Communicate with Project Managers on current project status
· Build scalable software through architecture discussions with the HCM team
· Apply test-driven development
· Manage work using JIRA, including tasks, bugs, estimates and actuals
· Have familiarity with continuous integration and deployment concepts.
Requirements:
· 3 or more years of professional software development experience
- Strong proficiency in developing and debugging JavaScript applications
- Ability to layout and style an HTML page by hand
- Experience building data intensive REST based applications
- Experience with current debugging tools
- Experience with one or more JavaScript frameworks (React, AngularJS, etc.)
- Experience with one or more distributed version controls (Git, etc.)
- Understanding of one or more server side programming languages
- Understanding of asynchronous and event driven programming
- Understanding of test driven design patterns
- Experience using Module Loaders (RequireJS, Almond, Bower, CommonJS, etc. )
- Bachelor’s Degree in CS, MIS or a related field
Preferred:
· Experience with Python and Python frameworks such as Django and Twisted
· Familiarity with PostgreSQL / NoSQL / MongoDB
· Experience using Creative Design tools (Photoshop, Illustrator, etc.)
· Understanding of ORM concepts and data driven applications
· Experience working using an Agile development methodology
Google-led Kubeflow, machine learning for Kubernetes, begins to take shape
Ever since Google created Kubernetes as an open source container orchestration tool, it has seen it blossom in ways it might never have imagined. As the project gains in popularity, we are seeing many adjunct programs develop. Today, Google announced the release of version 0.1 of the Kubeflow open source tool, which is designed to […]
Datadog provides visibility into Kubernetes apps with new container map
As companies turn increasingly to containerization, it creates challenges in terms of monitoring each individual container and the impact on the underlying application. This is particularly difficult because of the ephemeral nature of containers, which can exist for a very short time. Datadog introduced a container map product today that could help by bringing visualization […]
SoundHound has raised a big $100M round to take on Alexa and Google Assistant
As SoundHound looks to leverage its ten-plus years of experience and data to create a voice recognition tool that companies can bake into any platform, it’s raising another big $100 million round of funding to try to make its Houndify platform a third neutral option compared to Alexa and Google Assistant. While Amazon works to […]
Upbound grabs $9M Series A to automate multi-cloud management
Kubernetes, the open source container orchestration tool, does a great job of managing a single cluster, but Upbound, a new Seattle-based startup wants to extend this ability to manage multiple Kubernetes clusters across multi-cloud environment. It’s a growing requirement as companies deploy ever-larger numbers of clusters and choose a multi-vendor approach to cloud infrastructure services. […]
Cisco is acquiring business intelligence startup Accompany for $270M
Cisco just announced an agreement to acquire Accompany, which uses artificial intelligence to build databases of people and relationships at companies. Founder and CEO Amy Chang has compared the product to a digital chief of staff or personal assistant, giving executives the context they need before conversations and meetings. Cisco plans to incorporate Accompany technology […]
Workplace, Facebook’s enterprise version, now has 52 SaaS apps and bots, opens up for more integrations
Workplace, the more secure, closed enterprise version of Facebook that competes against the likes of Slack, Microsoft Teams and Hipchat as a platform for employees to communicate and work on things together, says that it today has tens of thousands of organisations using its platform. Now to pick up more, and to bring more of […]
ScienceLogic release gives IT view across entire stack
It’s tough being part of IT Ops these days. Your company could be operating across public and private clouds, and in many cases, an internal datacenter too. Meanwhile your developers are generating more code ever faster. ScienceLogic wants to help with it latest release, ScienceLogic SL1. As company CEO Dave Link sees, we are seeing this […]