Applications and DevOps Engineer

Job Overview

Plan A Technologies is looking for a Applications and DevOps Engineer to design, build, and maintain software that integrates network platforms, IT systems, and data stores. This role owns end-to-end integrations—including APIs, events, and ETL—to ensure reliable data flow and deliver performant, secure services across cloud and on-prem environments.

You will deploy services using AWS compute and maintain integrations with tools like Jira, ServiceNow, Kafka, and GitHub. This position requires operating and optimizing Postgres SQL/MySQL and focusing on high-throughput reads/writes. You will lead technical conversations, gather requirements, and translate operational workflows into scalable integrations while collaborating across NetOps, Cloud, Security, and Data Engineering teams.

Please note: you must have at least 5+ years of experience as a Network Software Engineer to be considered for this role.

Job Responsibility & Experience

• Design, build, and maintain software that integrates network platforms, IT systems, and data stores.
• Own end‑to‑end integrations (APIs, events, ETL), ensure reliable data flow, and deliver performant, secure services across cloud/on‑prem environments.
• Strong experience designing and deploying services using AWS compute, IAM, Lambda, API Gateway, Step Functions, S3, RDS, VPC, etc.
• Build/maintain integrations with: Jira, ITSM (ServiceNow/Jira Service Management), messaging (Kafka/RabbitMQ)observability (Prometheus/Grafana, ELK/EFK), CMDB/asset (ServiceNow CMDB), source control/CI (GitHub) .
• Design/consume REST and RPC APIs; author OpenAPI/Swagger.
• Strong SQL and data modeling, query tuning with execution plans and indexes.
• Operate and optimize Postgres SQL/MySQL.
• Focus on high‑throughput reads/writes, and time‑series databases.
• Practical understanding of TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP(S), TLS, load balancers, proxies, and service discovery.
• Proficiency in C# / JS, React/typescript. Python (nice to have).
• Ability to leverage Co-Pilot and guide agentic AI.
• Microservices, containers, and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes).
• Robust testing (unit/integration/contract/e2e) and rollback strategies.
• Strong communicator who can lead technical conversations, gather requirements, and translate operational workflows into scalable integrations.
• Collaborates across NetOps, Cloud, Security, and Data Engineering teams.
• Excellent verbal and written English communication skills.
• Excellent organizational, problem solver, and analytical abilities.
• Outstanding communication, and interpersonal skills.
• Initiative and drive to do great things.

About The Company/Benefits

Plan A Technologies is an American software development and technology advisory firm that brings top-tier engineering talent to clients around the world. Our software engineers tackle custom product development projects, staff augmentation, major integrations and upgrades, and much more. The team is far more hands-on than the giant outsourcing shops, but still big enough to handle major enterprise clients.

Read more about us here: www.PlanAtechnologies.com .

Location: Work From Home 100% of the time, or come in to one of our global offices. Up to you.

Great colleagues and an upbeat work environment: You'll join an excellent team of supportive engineers and project managers who work hard but don't ever compete with each other.

Benefits: Vacation, Brand New Laptop, and More: You’ll get a generous vacation schedule, and other goodies.

If this sounds like you, we'd love to hear from you!