[Jobs] Sr. Software Engineer-Cloud Infrastructure

Hello All,
CC Pace is an IT Consulting Firm located in Fairfax, Va. We have been
in business for 30 years providing different companies with IT
solutions/SME in business and systems analysis, software development,
project management and more.

As a result of some of our long-term relationships with clients over
the years, a staff augmentation division has developed. We are
currently tier 1 vendors to several companies in the DC Metro area,
Richmond Va. and other cities across the Eastern Seaboard. Our
staffing clients look to us for assistance in finding top technical
talent for their permanent, contract and contract-to-hire
opportunities.

We are in need of a Sr. Software Engineer with Cloud Infrastructure
experience and Ruby. This is a permanent posiiton with a streaming
media client of ours located in Dulles, Va. The detailed job
description is below. If you are interested in speaking about this
opportunity further please email us and include your resume and a good
time and phone number where you can be reached. Thank you!

Software Engineer (Design/Development 8-10 yrs exp)– Cloud
Infrastructure (Elasticity/Virtualization)

Looking for analytical individuals with strong computational skills to
work on cloud infrastructure projects at a premier video technologies
company. Come join a team filled with incredibly talented individuals
which are focused on a singular goal: delivering the best video
experience to the web. Software engineers have the satisfaction of
knowing that their efforts play a large part in the success of a small
and incredibly efficient company. Through us you could have the
opportunity to affect people all over the world.

Required Skills:
• provable programming prowess in Ruby (1-2 yrs) and exp with dynamic
scripting languages
• experience working on infrastructure projects; building the
foundational pieces and middleware that run scalable applications
• experience with Unix/Linux
• ability to analyze, troubleshoot and design experiments to quickly
validate ideas
• experience with a sizable source code base (1/2 milliion lines of
code)
Desirable Skills:
• experience working on large data sets (pedabyte of data, millions
of assets, a lot of transactions happening, 10’s of thousands a
minute)
• experience with Rails, MySQL
• experience with Amazon Web Services (EC2, S3, SQS, SDB) Savvis Web
services good substitute
• software engineering practices
Education Level:
• hold or are finishing a M.S. or Ph.D. degree in computer science is
not required, but is a plus
• degree in an analytical subject (e.g., engineering, math, statistics
or physics) and have worked on projects requiring a software
development effort of non-trivial size

Responsibilities:
Candidates will need to apply all manners of software engineering
techniques to add new features and to maintain a state of the art
infrastructure project. Infrastructure sits at the center of the team
thus the candidate needs to have exception communication skills. This
is a great opportunity to work on challenging and market-relevant
problems as the web-based video industry is taking off! Candidates
should be open minded and eager to learn.