Senior Software Engineer- Cloud

Summary

One of Ansys’ newest products, Discovery, is a unique real-time easy-to-use simulation tool that will make engineering simulation as pervasive as Excel. Some analysts have called it “one of the biggest breakthroughs in design and engineering technology in the last ten years.” Come and join the team that will transform how the products of tomorrow are engineered.

The Live Technologies team seeks a cloud software engineer who will contribute to the development of our products and supporting systems in the cloud on AWS. You will operate under general supervision but will have a reasonable amount of discretion to take independent action. The overall goal of your responsibilities is to define and develop the next-generation cloud software, architecture, and tools for Ansys and its customers, with the clear intent of leap-frogging the competition.

Ansys is the world leader in engineering simulation. Up to 80% of the cost of a product’s development is determined by the decisions you make early in the design process, and Ansys helps its customers reduce this cost with physical simulation tools to make better decisions quicker. Customers use Ansys simulation products to digitally explore design concepts and test critical design choices early in the product life cycle.

Responsibilities

• Design, code, test, document, implement, and maintain cloud software and supporting systems
• Ensure that cloud solutions follow security and compliance controls, as well as best practices
• Comfortable contributing to (and learning where necessary) anywhere within the full software stack (API design, database implementation, business logic, etc.)
• Improve software development processes with tools and best practices
• Perform basic bug verification, deployment testing and support. Investigate problems discovered by QA or support and develop solutions

Minimum Qualifications 

• BS in computer science or equivalent software programming related program with 5+ years of software development experience or MS in computer science or equivalent software programming related program with 3+ years of software development experience
• Experience with the AWS Console, CLI and SDK
• Knowledge of coding, security, and performance best practices for cloud architectures
• Knowledge of or experience with full life-cycle software engineering practices including packaging, coding standards, unit/system/integration testing, source control management, and operations for cloud

• Strong understanding of data structures and algorithms
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently and manage one’s time
• Driven and willing to learn
• Effective verbal and written communication skills

• Strong interpersonal skills
• Ability to learn quickly and to collaborate with others in a geographically distributed team

Preferred Qualifications 

• Knowledge of or experience with CAE
• Knowledge of or experience with AWS products such as Lambda, SQS, SNS, ECS, DynamoDB, etc.

• Knowledge of or experience with AWS services such as CloudFront, S3, Cognito, KMS, Transit Gateway, RDS, ElastiCache, ElasticSearch, EC2, Auto Scaling Groups, Load Balancers, etc.
• AWS Certification