Sr Principal Systems Engineer

Job Description

Our Digital & Technology organization sits at the heart of CBRE. As part of our team, you'll be able to learn from the most brilliant engineers, designers, and product managers while solving tough problems that will drive our technology forward.

About The Role

CBRE Global Workplace Solutions (GWS) works closely with clients to develop solutions that make real estate a significant contributor to organizational productivity and performance. We strive to develop foundational and breakthrough products that add new value for our customers.

We are forming a team of creative individuals with full-stack expertise and knowledge to help innovate and develop an applications suite for Facilities Management. You will be part of a Scrum team as a part of scaled, globally distributed Agile teams and will have the opportunity to be hands-on with various technologies. A desire to learn new technologies is required.

What We Do

• Build cloud-native applications using Open source and Microsoft technologies across multiple cloud platforms.
• Modernize monolith legacy applications to highly scalable distributed applications on microservices-based architecture and deploy them on cloud platforms.
• Implement projects on Agile standard methodologies and embrace the DevOps culture across the software delivery lifecycle
• Build and develop integration frameworks for 3rd party vendor applications.
• Design and implement new features/applications based on industry standards.
• Create modern, responsive web applications to provide real estate services to our internal and external clients.
• Develop and distribute Mobile apps built on native or react native architecture for both iOS and Android platforms.
• Implement Continuous Security, Integration, Deployment & Monitoring for the software products

What You'll Do

• Lead and manage a team, providing direction, mentorship, and performance feedback.
• This role has the overall responsibility for managing Production Support. This is a hands-on role, and the individual needs to feel comfortable with solving issues and providing leadership to the production support teams.
• Conduct daily reviews of production tickets, weekly reviews with Senior Management on the trend, and report progress on improvement areas and actions.
• Ensures that the production tickets are monitored and brought under the threshold.
• Manage the application lifecycle, including upgrades, patches, and enhancements, while minimizing disruptions to business operations.
• Guide Shift Left adoption for Security by introducing and continuously improving on security testing process within the CI / CD pipelines (SAST, DAST).
• Ensure early detection of the security vulnerabilities across application code as well as infrastructure and track it to remediation based on established SLAs.

What You'll Need

• Bachelor's degree (BA/BS) in a related field such as information systems, mathematics, or computer science or equivalent work experience
• Solid technical background in application administration, including experience with enterprise applications, databases, and cloud-based platforms.
• In-depth knowledge of ITIL or other IT service management frameworks
• 7-10 years demonstrated ability in Designing, Development, and Maintenance of Scalable, Distributed applications.
• Strong Java / Spring Boot development background with proven track record on delivering common frameworks and utilities that improves developer productivity.
• Experience with both Static, Dynamic as well as Interactive Security Testing Tools such as Snyk, Veracode etc... to help build integrations within our CI / CD Pipelines.
• Solid knowledge on docker based containerization on linux base images and security hardening process.
• Experience working in performance testing tools like JMeter and strategizing performance testing process for both http based as well as messaged driven applications.
• Experience deploying applications on cloud-based environments on Kubernetes platform.

Why CBRE?

CBRE is the world's largest commercial real estate services and investment firm, and we have been ranked #1 on Fortune's World's Most Admired Company: (2019, 2020, 2021,2023). Once again, CBRE has been named to 3BL's annual 100 Best Corporate Citizens ranking for the fifth consecutive year. CBRE was the only real estate company to earn a place among the top 100. With services, insights, and data that span every dimension of the industry, we build digital solutions for clients of every size, in every sector, and across every geography.

Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States without the need for visa sponsorship now or in the future.

CBRE is an equal opportunity employer that values diversity. We have a long-standing commitment to providing equal employment opportunity to all qualified applicants regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy, age, citizenship, marital status, disability, veteran status, political belief, or any other basis protected by applicable law. We also provide reasonable accommodations, as needed, throughout the job application process. If you have a disability that inhibits your ability to apply for a position through our online application process, you may contact us via email at recruitingaccommodations@cbre.com or via telephone at +1 866 225 3099 (U.S.) and +1 866 388 4346 (Canada).

NOTE: Some, but not all, of our positions may have an additional requirement to comply with COVID-19 health and safety protocols, including COVID-19 vaccination proof and/or rigorous testing. If you have questions about the requirement(s) for this position, please inform your Recruiter.