Platform Engineer II - Cloud Ecosystems

Job Title: Platform Engineer II - Cloud Ecosystems About the team - Cloud Ecosystems: The Cloud Ecosystems group builds, operates and enables use of private and public cloud infrastructure. Compute capabilities are provided on platform instances that are privately owned and centrally managed. These platform instances, and the workloads running on them, are hosted both in datacenters (on-premises) and on public cloud infrastructure (AWS). The Cloud Ecosystems team in Bangalore is responsible for shaping the future of Kubernetes-based container orchestration platform, Virtual Machine as a Service offering (spanning private data centers and AWS EC2) and various disaster recovery solutions that ensure Customer’s RTO/RPO driven recoverability against large-scale risks such as ransomware attacks. Key Job Responsibilities and Duties: The core premise for the Platform Engineer lies in designing, building, and maintaining internal platforms, to provide developers with self-service tools and automation for deploying and running software efficiently and reliably. We code our way out of problems where operations are concerned, addressing availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency challenges within the vast infrastructure. You will impact millions of people all over the globe with your creative solutions You will solve exciting problems at scale by writing and deploying code across tens of thousands of servers Ensuring an “everything as code” mindset for yourself and your team You will have the opportunity to collaborate with many of the world’s leading SREs, SWEs and Platform Engineers You will be free to launch your own ideas and solutions within our sophisticated production environment Here are some of the tools and technologies we use to achieve this: Python, Go, Puppet, Kubernetes, Elasticsearch, Prometheus, HAProxy, Cassandra, Kafka etc What you’ll be doing: Design, develop and implement highly distributed, large scale platforms that have a major impact on developers Deliver a fully integrated, end-to-end developer focused engineering experience to make common things simple and complex things possible Embed operational resilience and service reliability directly into the development lifecycle; Build effective monitoring to supervise the health of your system, and jump in to handle outages; Build and run capacity tests to manage the growth of your systems; Embed Business Continuity and IT Disaster Recovery (DR) planning into the full engineering lifecycle; Embed security and privacy directly into service bootstrapping and delivery pipelines by automating controls and reducing manual decision points; Be an advocate of engineering standard processes; Share the on-call rotation and be an escalation contact for incidents: Contribute to growth through interviewing, on-boarding or other recruitment efforts. What you’ll bring: 5-8 years of hands-on experience in software, platform or site reliability engineering within the technology sector, coupled with expertise in building, operating and maintaining sophisticated and scalable systems. Solid experience in at least one programming language. We use Go, Python, Java, Ruby, Perl; Experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies; Knowledge of cloud computing fundamentals; Solid foundation in Linux administration and troubleshooting; Understanding of Service level agreements and objectives; Additional experience in AWS solutions, Kubernetes, Networking, Security or Storage is desirable; Supervising / observability technologies like Prometheus, Graphite, Grafana, Kibana, Elasticsearch are a plus; Good interpersonal skills Proficient command of the English language, both written and spoken