Associate Lead Application Engineer

Are you our “TYPE”?

Brands constantly seek to achieve deeper appeal and connection with their target audience and customers. They express themselves in unique ways, in ways that are meaningful, attractive, and compelling to their audience. Fonts play a key role in this and are central to every brand’s visual identity and expression.

Headquartered in the Boston area of the United States and with offices across 4 continents, Monotype is the world’s leading company in fonts. It’s a trusted partner to the world’s top brands and was named “One of the Most Innovative Companies in Design for 2018” by Fast Company.

Monotype brings brands to life through the type and technology that consumers engage with every day. The company's rich legacy includes a library that can be traced back hundreds of years, featuring famed typefaces like Helvetica, Futura, Times New Roman, and more. 

Monotype also provides a first-of-its-kind service that makes fonts more accessible for creative professionals to discover, license, and use in our increasingly digital world. We work with the biggest global brands, and with individual creatives, offering a wide set of solutions that make it easier for them to do what they do best: design beautiful brand experiences. 

Monotype Solutions India is a strategic center of excellence for Monotype and is a certified Great Place to Work® three years in a row.   The India center is the largest headcount location of Monotype.  It is based in NOIDA, Sector 125 (Delhi/NCR). The focus of this fast-growing center spans Product Development, Product Management, Experience Design, User Research, Market Intelligence, Research in areas of Artificial Intelligence and Machine learning, Innovation, Customer Success, Enterprise Business Solutions, and Sales.

We are looking for an experienced Associate Lead Application Engineer who will be responsible for technical, architectural and operational aspects of application stack on AWS.

What you’ll be doing:

• You’ll be responsible to handle the custom application stack in AWS.

• You’ll oversee governance of AWS implementation and mitigate any risks of the project.

• Should have the ability to design new workflows, in compliance with AWS specific services.

• Should provide System support, manage Incident, Change, Service Request and Problem Ticket.

• Should provide your expertise in debugging application in case of any major issues reported on the application.

• Should be able to provide suggestions and inputs to the frontend & backend team when integrating with AWS stack.

• You’ll be closely working with our in-house Devops team.

• You’ll be responsible for maintaining the usage of cloud services and implementing cost-saving strategies.

• You’ll take care of any new developments on AWS stack with complete E2E design and solutions.

• Understanding the application life cycle and utilizing APIs.

• Identifying potential bottlenecks in applications’ performance and providing remediations.

• Should handle all the integrations of AWS stack with SaaS products as well as with any other custom-built integrations.

• You’ll be working in a fast paced environment where the application rollout to users and adoption is critical for success. The value delivered will make you to look forward to technical architect role as per business demands.

• You’ll have a well rounded peer on all aspects of AWS ensuring learning and problem solving.

• Should have relevant AWS Certifications.

What we’re looking for:

• Should have 7+ years of total IT experience with 3+ years of it in AWS who can handle end-toend solution hosted on AWS infrastructure using best practices.

• Should have strong solution architecture acumen in terms of applications set-up and scaling as per the required traffic and be able to mitigate existing issues in current solution.

• Minimum of 2 years' experience with Kubernetes with production workloads.

• Ability to take care of production environments by troubleshooting failures alongside with practicing post-mortems to prevent incidents in future.

• The frontend JS knowledge and experience like – React.js.

• Good hand on knowledge on backend knowledge like – Node.js.

• Good hands on to integrate technical knowledge and business understanding to create superior solutions for the company.

• Should have experience in working with any code review tool and its quality gate check adherences for ex – Sonarqube.

• An inquisitive mind who loves to learn the latest AWS technologies.

• Good knowledge on the cloud technology, different patterns, deployment methods, compatibility of the applications

• Good knowledge of the major AWS technologies and associated components and variations

• Preferably with experience in AWS RDS with MySQL Server

• Ability to understand and articulate the different functions within AWS and design appropriate solution, HLD, LLD around it.

• Must have experience in CloudWatch.

• Must have experience in Lambda, API Gateways, SNS, SQS.

• Good to have experience in AWS Elastic Cache using Redis.

• Good to have experience in integration of SSO.

• Must be familiar with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, Git, GitHub).

• Must have experience or familiarity in IaaC tools (Ansible, Terraform, Packer).

Monotype is an Equal Opportunities Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.

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