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Metropolitan Transportation Authority · 1 day ago

Specialist Platform Engineer

New York, NY

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid Level

$114K/yr - $134K/yr

3+ years exp

Metropolitan Transportation Authority is seeking a Specialist Platform Engineer to design, develop, optimize, and maintain middleware solutions for seamless integration across enterprise systems. The role involves configuring, troubleshooting, and enhancing middleware platforms while collaborating with development and infrastructure teams to deliver high-performance integration services.

Transportation/Trucking/Railroad

Responsibilities

Requirements Management: Defines and manages scoping and requirements definition and ensures traceability to source

Software Design & Development: Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, amends, and refactors complex programs/scripts and integration software services. Uses appropriate modelling techniques following agreed software design standards, guidelines, patterns, and methodology

Testing: Develops and executes test plans and test cases; implements scalable and reliable automated tests and frameworks

Acceptance Testing: Develops acceptance criteria related to functional and non-functional requirements, business processes, features, user stories and business rules

User Experience Evaluation: Selects appropriate tools and techniques to evaluate user experiences of systems, products, services, or devices, and validates that security, usability and accessibility requirements have been met

Configuration Management: Develops, configures, and maintains tools to identify, track, log and maintain accurate, complete, and current system information; develops and maintains associated operational documentation

Application Support: Maintains application support processes and uses application management software tools to investigate issues, prioritize and diagnose incidents, collect performance statistics, and create reports

Project/Product Management: Defines, documents, and executes small projects or sub-projects. May act as product owner for one or more lower-value products or services, managing elements of the product life cycle to meet customer/user needs and achieve financial or other targets

Quality & Safety Assurance: Plans, organizes, and conducts quality and safety assessments, and suggests opportunities for improvement. Contributes to identifying, analyzing, and documenting hazards and safety risks

Supplier Management: Monitors and reports on supplier performance, customer satisfaction, adherence to security requirements and market intelligence

Skills Development: Continuously develops and maintains personal knowledge of software engineering practices, emerging trends, and technologies

May mentor less experienced staff

Performs other duties and tasks

May need to work outside of normal work hours (i.e., evenings and weekends)

Travel may be required to other MTA locations or external sites

Performs other duties and tasks as assigned

Observes the work performed by the contractor. Addresses performance issues with the contractor when possible

Reviews invoices and approving them if the work has contractual standards

Escalates issues to other parties as needed

Qualification

Middleware SolutionsKubernetesDockerTerraformAPI GatewaysMessage BrokersService MeshesData StructuresDatabase ManagementWeb DevelopmentDevOpsCloud ComputingCybersecurityAI/ML Model ServingOpen-source ContributionsEdge Computing MiddlewareInnovationDiversity ValuesCollaborationCustomer FocusEffective Communication

Required

Education: Bachelor's Degree

Experience: At least 3 years of relevant experience. An equivalent combination of education and experience may be considered in lieu of a degree

Preferred

Data Structures and Algorithms (Thorough Knowledge/Fully Proficient)

Database Management (Thorough Knowledge/Fully Proficient)

Web Development (Thorough Knowledge/Fully Proficient)

DevOps (Thorough Knowledge/Fully Proficient)

Operating Systems (Thorough Knowledge/Fully Proficient)

Cybersecurity, including encryption and authentication (Thorough Knowledge/Fully Proficient)

Cloud Computing (Thorough Knowledge/Fully Proficient)

Company

Metropolitan Transportation Authority

Glassdoor3.6

The Metropolitan Transportation Authority is North America's largest transportation network, serving a population of 15.3 million people in the 5,000-square-mile area fanning out from New York City through Long Island, southeastern New York State, and Connecticut.

Founded in 1834

New York, NY, US

10001+ employees