Job responsibilities
- Regularly provides technical guidance and direction to support the business and its technical teams, contractors, and vendors
- Develops secure and high-quality production code, and reviews and debugs code written by others
- Drives decisions that influence the product design, application functionality, and technical operations and processes
- Automating Infrastructure-as-code, using Terraform, VRA, ansible and other infrastructure automation tools. Automating networking and O/S configuration from building images, configuring file system layouts and automating BGP peering up through CRI, CNI & CSI configuration for Kubernetes clusters
- Automating the installation, upgrade, scaling and management of a large and rapidly growing fleet of Kubernetes clusters. Develop custom platform control plane webhooks, CRDs and operators and more that provide a secure opinionated platform
- Produces architecture and design artifacts for complex applications while being accountable for ensuring design constraints are met by software code development
- Adds to the team culture of diversity, equity, inclusion, and respect
Required qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Formal training or certification on software engineering concepts and 5+ years applied experience.
- Hands-on practical experience delivering system design, application development, testing, and operational stability
- Proficiency in multiple modern programming languages, ideally including one of Go, Python, React, Java,
- Experience working with modern private & public cloud infrastructure platforms - Kubernetes, AWS EKS Terraform, Ansible and other automation tools
- Experience in developing, debugging, and maintaining code in a large corporate environment with one or more modern programming languages and database querying languages
- Ability to tackle design and functionality problems independently with little to no oversight
- Practical cloud native experience
- Experience in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field
Preferred qualifications, capabilities, and skills
- Experience in Infrastructure Architecture designs
- Experience in GCP GKE ecosystems a plus
- Knowledge of industry-wide technology trends and best practices
- Knowledge of multiple Cloud Platforms