Description:

Concord is seeking a passionate and experienced Senior Software Engineer to join their Platform Engineering team.
The team focuses on delivering scalable and secure shared services across a suite of tax and accounting products in North America.
Responsibilities include designing and maintaining Azure-based IaaS/PaaS platforms, troubleshooting complex issues, and building containerized application deployments.
The role involves contributing to the development of RESTful APIs, ensuring automated test coverage, and supporting configuration-as-code efforts.
The engineer will respond to customer-reported escalations, address security vulnerabilities, and resolve issues flagged by various tools.
Participation in evening software releases may be required to oversee successful deployment.

Requirements:

Candidates must have strong troubleshooting skills across network, application, hardware, and service layers, with experience maintaining and troubleshooting production systems.
Knowledge of Azure architecture, Azure Kubernetes Services, and container orchestration is essential.
Proficiency in C#, .NET Framework, .NET Core, ASP.NET, WCF, WPF, Web API, and PowerShell is required.
Exposure to Angular or modern JavaScript front-end frameworks and technologies (HTML5, CSS, JS) is necessary.
Experience with security tooling and basic remediation practices is expected.
Candidates should have knowledge of authentication/identification concepts and their interaction with APIs.
Solid SQL Server experience, including basic performance tuning and schema familiarity, is required.
Experience with CI/CD pipelines, DevOps practices, and infrastructure automation is necessary.
Candidates should have experience with platform migrations or modernization within existing applications.
Understanding of distributed systems and cloud-native architecture patterns is essential.

The position is a 6-12 months contract with the possibility of renewal based on performance and business needs.
The role is remote, allowing for flexibility in work location.
Candidates must be able to work in US time zones, primarily Eastern or Central time.
Compensation is provided in USD as a contractor, and candidates must provide their own laptop.