Virtana

Position Overview:

As a Senior Support Engineer specializing for Storage and Network monitoring in an AI enabled Data center as well as Cloud, you will play a critical role in interacting with Customer on routine basis to support the product. Your expertise in debugging and solving complex problems is essential to address the complex product issues when pitched in real world. With a methodical approach on problem solving and being Customer’s advocate in the organization is crucial for success of the position

Work Location: Pune

Job Type: Hybrid

Key Responsibilities:

- Monitor for, triage, and resolve live issues in mission critical enterprise environments.

-Active Customer engagements: Work daily with customers in a proactive manner providing full lifecycle support and implementing solutions to maximize value to the customer.

-Debug issues and propose solutions: Understand the domain, product, key customer use-cases, and success-criteria, work towards these by implementing solutions the current issues and in time propose new solutions.

-Agile Development: Collaborate within an agile development environment to deliver on aggressive schedules, maintaining a high standard of quality in communications, documentation and tracking various issues.

-Feature Ownership: Take ownership of features, customers ask from inception to delivery, working with Product Management, Engineering stakeholders, Ensuring product meets the customers’ requirements and align with the overall product vision.

-Problem Solving and Optimization: Tackle complex technical challenges related to data processing, storage, and real-time monitoring, and optimize backend systems for high throughput and low latency.

-Implement Best Practices & focus on automation: In cross geo, multi-product support org, propose and implement Support centric best practices on collaboration, documentation, tracking and measuring success, and automate the repetitive tasks to ensure efficiency.

-Collaboration and Communication: Work closely with cross-functional teams, including UI/UX designers, product managers, and QA engineers, to ensure smooth integration and alignment with product goals.

-Documentation: Create and maintain technical documentation, including system architecture, design decisions, and API documentation, to facilitate knowledge sharing and onboarding.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field.

- Strong domain knowledge in Networking and/or Storage Networking technologies and practices.

- 5+ years of practical experience in networking domain (an additional storage networking experience is a plus), with a focus on supporting enterprise customers.

-Strong Linux system administration skills with focus on Full-Stack troubleshooting, LAMP style hosted applications, shell scripting and performance tuning.

-Experience with Windows administration including but not limited to AD, Group Policy administration, performance monitoring, and performance tuning

- Broad experience with monitoring fundamentals and familiarity with data collection methods for key infrastructure technologies from AJAX to Xenserver

- Proven experience in troubleshooting and debugging enterprise products deployed in AWS, Cloud, and Kubernetes environments.

- Strong communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to interact effectively with customers and internal teams across geographies and time zones.

-Excellent problem-solving abilities, with a keen attention to detail and a systematic approach to issue resolution

- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a fast-paced environment, managing multiple priorities and deadlines effectively.

-Customer-centric mindset, with a passion for delivering exceptional technical support and ensuring customer satisfaction.

Why Join Us:

- Opportunity to be a key contributor in the development of a leading performance monitoring company specializing in AI-powered Storage and Network monitoring.

- Collaborative and innovative work environment.

- Competitive salary and benefits package.

- Professional growth and development opportunities.

- Chance to work on cutting-edge technology and products that make a real impact.

If you are a hands-on technologist with a proven track record of designing and delivering high-quality features on aggressive schedules and possess strong expertise in microservices-based streaming architectures, we invite you to apply and help us redefine the future of performance monitoring.

Senior Software Engineer 

Challenge convention and work on cutting edge technology that is transforming the way our customers manage their physical, virtual and cloud computing environments. Virtual Instruments seeks highly talented people to join our growing team, where your contributions will impact the development and delivery of our product roadmap. Our award-winning Virtana Platform provides the only real-time, system-wide, enterprise scale solution for providing visibility into performance, health and utilization metrics, translating into improved performance and availability while lowering the total cost of the infrastructure supporting mission-critical applications.  

We are seeking an individual with expert knowledge in Systems Management and/or Systems Monitoring Software, Observability platforms and/or Performance Management Software and Solutions with insight into integrated infrastructure platforms like Cisco UCS, infrastructure providers like Nutanix, VMware, EMC & NetApp and public cloud platforms like Google Cloud and AWS to expand the depth and breadth of Virtana Products. 

Work Location: Pune/ Chennai

Job Type: Hybrid

Role Responsibilities: 

• The engineer will be primarily responsible for architecture, design and development of software solutions for the Virtana Platform 
• Partner and work closely with cross functional teams and with other engineers and product managers to architect, design and implement new features and solutions for the Virtana Platform. 
• Communicate effectively across the departments and R&D organization having differing levels of technical knowledge.  
• Work closely with UX Design, Quality Assurance, DevOps and Documentation teams. Assist with functional and system test design and deployment automation 
• Provide customers with complex and end-to-end application support, problem diagnosis and problem resolution 
• Learn new technologies quickly and leverage 3rd party libraries and tools as necessary to expedite delivery 

Required Qualifications:    

• Minimum of 7+ years of progressive experience with back-end development in a Client Server Application development environment focused on Systems Management, Systems Monitoring and Performance Management Software. 
• Deep experience in public cloud environment using Kubernetes and other distributed managed services like Kafka etc (Google Cloud and/or AWS) 
• Experience with CI/CD and cloud-based software development and delivery 
• Deep experience with integrated infrastructure platforms and experience working with one or more data collection technologies like SNMP, REST, OTEL, WMI, WBEM. 
• Minimum of 6 years of development experience with one or more of these high level languages like GO, Python, Java. Deep experience with one of these languages is required. 
• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in computer science, Computer Engineering or equivalent 
• Highly effective verbal and written communication skills and ability to lead and participate in multiple projects 
• Well versed with identifying opportunities and risks in a fast-paced environment and ability to adjust to changing business priorities 
• Must be results-focused, team-oriented and with a strong work ethic 

Desired Qualifications: 

• Prior experience with other virtualization platforms like OpenShift is a plus 
• Prior experience as a contributor to engineering and integration efforts with strong attention to detail and exposure to Open-Source software is a plus 
• Demonstrated ability as a lead engineer who can architect, design and code with strong communication and teaming skills 
• Deep development experience with the development of Systems, Network and performance Management Software and/or Solutions is a plus 

About Virtana:  Virtana delivers the industry’s only broadest and deepest Observability Platform that allows organizations to monitor infrastructure, de-risk cloud migrations, and reduce cloud costs by 25% or more. 

Over 200 Global 2000 enterprise customers, such as AstraZeneca, Dell, Salesforce, Geico, Costco, Nasdaq, and Boeing, have valued Virtana’s software solutions for over a decade. 

Our modular platform for hybrid IT digital operations includes Infrastructure Performance Monitoring and Management (IPM), Artificial Intelligence for IT Operations (AIOps), Cloud Cost Management (Fin Ops), and Workload Placement Readiness Solutions. Virtana is simplifying the complexity of hybrid IT environments with a single cloud-agnostic platform across all the categories listed above. The $30B IT Operations Management (ITOM) Software market is ripe for disruption, and Virtana is uniquely positioned for success.