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About us

Akvelon Inc (USA) works in the field of software engineering based on a variety of technologies. Our company is a member of the vendor program, which gives employees the opportunity to work with clients in the United States and other countries (Microsoft, Facebook, Airbnb, Dropbox, Pinterest, and many others). This is a great opportunity to transfer experience and experience with leading engineers of world-renowned companies.

About project

Team is looking for an experienced backend developer to build specific runners to validate KPI’s and integrate them with EV-2 deployments for a smoother release process and to scale to multiple regions.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain efficient, reusable, and reliable C#/Ruby code
• Ensure the best possible performance, quality, and responsiveness of the applications
• Identify bottlenecks and bugs, and devise solutions to these problems
• Help maintain code quality, organization, and automatization.
• Design and Implement Geneva synthetic runners
• Help with deployments of runners and product
• Livesite support and investigations for Geneva synthetic runner failures

Requirements

• Strong experience in Ruby and good understanding of its syntax and nuances. Coding/scripting (in Ruby/bash).
• Strong experience in Azure infrastructure operations, DevOps operations, Linux systems
• Familiarity with concepts of MVC, Mocking, ORM, and RESTful
• Understanding of fundamental design principles behind a scalable application
• Professional software development experience with C# will be a plus
• Experience in using automated testing platforms and unit tests (xUnit, nUnit, MSTest) will be a plus
• Experience of working with Geneva Synthetics/ICM/EV-2 will be a plus
• Good written and spoken communication in English

We offer

• Entering a professional level equivalent to world standards;
• High wages (we proceed from the wishes of the candidate and the level);
• LCA with dentistry;
• An excellent team of high-level professionals who have something to learn;
• Flexible working hours.

Responsibilities

• SDK  LiveSite  SRE  role:  troubleshooting,  triaging  SEV3  incidents.  Addressing  TSG  automation, Kepler automation, Grafana dashboard gaps.
• Cross  SDK  language/modes  consistency:  Framework  to  validate  scenarios  across  different  SDK languages and connection modes. Identify gaps, align with ThinClient mode validation. Including multi  region  validation  coverage  corpus  both  graceful  and  non-graceful  multi  region  scenario coverage.  Chaos integration, .NET workload, client telemetry on-boarding.
• Cloud  native  workloads:  Representative  workloads  on  cloud  native  platforms  (K8,  AppServices) with observability (AI, Client-Telemetry) integrated E2E. Chaos integration (CPU/memory eater, NW chaos)‍

‍Requirements

• 4+ years of professional software development experience with .NET Framework (C#) or Java
• Customer support/interaction experience (CX) + Strong troubleshooting
• Experience in at least one of the test frameworks (xUnit, nUnit, MSTest)
• Excellent knowledge of PowerShell/Batch scripts, YAML

• Experience  with dashboards/monitoring (Grafana, Kusto)

• Experience with networking
• Experience with performance benchmarking
• Experience with writing perf, stress, load tests
• Experience with Azure DevOps/Pipelines
• Experience with Kubernetes and Docker
• Experience with Azure is a plus
• Good written and spoken communication in English

We offer

• Entering a professional level equivalent to world standards;
• High wages (we proceed from the wishes of the candidate and the level);
• LCA with dentistry;
• 50% payment of sports or English courses;
• An excellent team of high-level professionals who have something to learn;
• Flexible working hours.

We are an international company providing professional services in medical affairs. Our clients are global pharma companies and US biotech companies.  

Key business focus is proprietary virtual platform for digital engagements for doctors and HCPs. Virtual platform disrupts decades-old traditions of life sciences industry through use of today’s modern technology.

We operate from few offices in Europe and US with a key IT hub located in Prague.

Job brief

We are looking for an IT Leader to oversee IT function in our company. You will be in charge of a team of IT specialists & developers (in-house and outsourced) and manage the company’s technology operations and the implementation of new IT systems and policies.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop & oversee IT policies & procedures
• Analyze IT related requirements of all company’ s functions to define their technology needs
• Manage continuous development & maintenance of the Virtual Advisory Board Platform and supporting systems
• Control IT budget and running costs
• Supporting external clients
• Penetration tests of company’s services
• Supporting internal infrastructure:

1. Users
2. Servers
3. Network equipment
4. Services

Key Requirements

• Proven experience and drive as IT leader or IT Manager
• Experience in platforms & software development
• Experience in writing technical specifications and working on processes in creating web platforms from scratch
• Development team management
• Understanding of ISO 27001 and experience in certification
• Experience in SOX audit is a must
• Experience in VPS/VDS/AWS are required
• Confident server administration on Unix and Windows operating systems
• Confident administration of the Office 365 service
• Experience in PowerShell scripting must have
• Python programming skills are required
• Knowledge in SiteBackUper system
• Good knowledge of the VABP platform
• First-hand understanding of computer systems (hardware/software), networks & IT administration
• Excellent organizational & leadership skills managing own and outsourced headcount
• Higher degree in computer science, mathematics, engineering or relevant field
• Professional experience in a managerial position in IT function of an international pharmaceutical or medical devices company is a must
• Professional experience in organizing digital events for international pharma company is essentially important
• Oral and written fluency in English is a must
• Oral and written fluency in Russian is a must
• Experience with the following systems preferred:

1. Zoho
2. Zadarma
3. Zoom
4. DailyCo
5. DocuSign
6. Transcribe

Lead’s Responsibilities:

• Taking part in executive meetings, dailies, leading the work sessions, etc.
• Communicating and reporting progress
• Processing risk assessment and developing risks mitigation strategies
• Team health support and maintenance
• Developing strategy & tactics for increasing efficiency of AppCenter functioning
• Taking responsibility for the team’s performance

General Responsibilities:

• 24/7 On-call Support for 1 week per 5 weeks (24/7 doesn’t mean that an engineer needs to sit in front of a workstation)
• Bugs fixing
• 2nd line of support for alerts and customer escalations for MS services
• Troubleshooting

Lead’s requirements:

• Proactivity
• Result-oriented approach
• Strong communication skills
• Business thinking
• Proven leadership experience of 3+ years
• Strategic & analytical mind

Requirements:

• Experience in the backend software development
• Experience with Node.js/JavaScript/Typescript
• Solid knowledge of Kusto
• Experience working with Linux, Mac and Windows
• Good knowledge of efficiently using PowerShell and Bash scripting
• Well-developed skills in troubleshooting
• Hand-on experience in Azure (mostly Azure DevOps)
• Ability to learn quickly (will need to learn a lot of new tools and materials)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills in English and a desire to create an open and collaborative team culture
• Nice to have:

• Kubernetes basic experience
• SQL basic experience

We offer:

• Possibilities of relocation to the USA;
• Entering a professional level equivalent to world standards;
• High wages (we proceed from the wishes of the candidate and the level);
• The choice of a remote job or office in Belgrade;
• An excellent team of high-level professionals and rich engineering culture.