Philips Senior Specialist - Edge Light weight stack 

India, Karnataka 

130742806

Senior Specialist 1 - Edge (Light weight stack)

Key Areas of Responsibilities

• Responsible for Requirements, Design, implementation, test and integration of design Units in accordance with the higher-level Requirement and - Design specifications / architectures including alignment with all the relevant internal and external stakeholders.
• Ensures the mutual consistency and efficient integration of the separate modules in modular, easy-to-maintain units that meets the product specification.
• Work with multiple stakeholders who develop SW Infrastructure components (OS, Control plane SW etc.), Application containers from businesses to install and upgrade Software on an On Prem device connected to modalities.
• Subject matter expert on Software packaging, use of Containerization and deployment via a Control plane based on Kubernetes.
• Develop in depth knowledge on various Kubernetes platforms, product security needs across BUs, working closely with the architects of BUs.
• Track, Analyze & integrate regular security patches.
• Provide inputs to the technology roadmap for compute platform (OS, Security & LWS) aligning business needs with the current & future trends.
• Support the standardization in the LWS (Kubernetes on the Edge) baselines, leveraging the commonality in the requirements across businesses, resulting in cost & effort optimization in R&D.
• Has in depth understanding of the complete stack (Kubernetes on the Edge) and the influence of each other.
• Has strong focus in optimization and drives efficiency bringing in automation in the realization steps & release activities.
• Understands and communicates consequences of his/her design on the architecture.
• Determines the Unit interfaces, in close consultation with relevant disciplines.
• Ensures that there is proper documentation for his/her design.
• Defines, executes, and takes the lead in concept and feasibility studies with a limited scope to investigate the usability of new technologies.
• Defines test/verification specification documents, performs verification, and generates verification reports of hardware components/peripherals.
• Contributes to technology roadmaps and other strategic related activities.
• Contributes to the Work Breakdown Structure, the planning process of his, her area.
• Reviews detailed design and critical artefacts from team.
• Support risk management, feature integration, sub-system verification and defect management activities.
• Responsible for quality and stability of the platform in the install base.
• Responsible for bringing in continuous improvements in release quality, release efficiency and cost efficiency.
• Obtains and maintains internal and external network for knowledge build-up.
• Support lead specialist/architect in setting long-term directions for technologies and methodologies including tools used during design phase.
• Establish a strong technical organization and sustain it with highest level of competency.
• Assist management team in identifying current and future competency needs of the team
• Hire, coach and mentor other team members in the R&D teams.
• Collaborate across all cross functions and with customers to deliver solutions that grows business + improves customer satisfaction.
• Performs work in line with the processes defined in the department.

Role Competency:

In addition to specific electrical areas specific job knowledge, skills and experience are:

• At least a bachelor’s degree in informatics, Computer Science or equivalent
• Understand the basics of Edge Computing and Platforms used for Edge deployment.
• Including deploying SW features and updates automatically to a device in the installed base.
• Ability to understand and work with other SME’s on security, OS, CI-CD etc.
• Detailed know how of Kubernetes, able to deploy and manage operations (fine tune for memory, cost etc.) post deployment.
• Understand how the relationship and differences between deploying on the device, On-Prem and Cloud differs.
• Understand Linux in this context (optional).
• Good experience in integrating, configuring, optimizing 3rd party software as per functional & non-functional requirements.
• Strong experience in scripting languages, in the Linux and Kubernetes domain.
• Knowledge on Kubernetes security configurations, STIG, CIS guidelines & policies.
• Experience in working with tools like TFS, GIT, GitHub.
• Strong Kubernetes debugging skills, with experience in using various debugging tools to analyze – performance, memory & security issues.
• Configure / implement, test and integrate Kubernetes clusters system.
• Analyze & solve problems on system level related to the Kubernetes.
• Document according to departmental procedures.
• Define and implement build, infrastructure and script improvements that will improve and speed-up the LWS lifecycle.
• Experience working with Scaled Agile.

Personal Characteristics:

• Ability to plan, organize and prioritize work.
• Quality conscious and Process & customer Oriented.
• Excellent verbal, written communication, and presentation skills.
• Proactive and self-driven, possesses due sense of urgency.
• Self-starter, quick learner, ability to work independently.
• Ability to solve a wide range of complex technical problems, requiring ingenuity and innovation.
• Ability to work in evolving areas with potentially high ambiguity levels.
• Effectively work locally and with global teams.
• Eagerness to continuously develop self and team.
• Analytical and Creative.
• Good Team player.

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