Kubernetes Expert

Role : Senior Engineer Infrastructure

Key Responsibilities:

● Infrastructure Development and Management: Design, implement, and manage robust and scalable infrastructure solutions, ensuring optimal performance,security, and availability. Lead transition and migration projects, moving legacy systemsto cloud-based solutions.

● Develop and maintain applications and services using Golang.

● Automation and Optimization: Implement automation tools and frameworksto optimize operational processes. Monitorsystem performance, optimizing and modifying systems as necessary.

● Security and Compliance: Ensure infrastructure security by implementing industry best practices and compliance requirements. Respond to and mitigate security incidents and vulnerabilities.

Qualifications:

● Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent practical experience).

● Good understanding of prominent backend languageslike Golang, Python, Node.js, or others.

● In-depth knowledge of network architecture,system security, infrastructure scalability.

● Proficiency with development tools,server management, and database systems.

● Strong experience with cloud services(AWS.), deployment,scaling, and management.

● Knowledge of Azure is a plus

● Familiarity with containers and orchestration services,such as Docker, Kubernetes, etc.

● Strong problem-solving skills and analytical thinking.

● Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

● Ability to thrive in a collaborative team environment.

● Genuine passion for backend development and keen interest in scalable systems. 

Responsibilities

• Implement various development, testing, automation tools, and IT infrastructure
• Design, build and automate the AWS infrastructure (VPC, EC2, Networking, EMR, RDS, S3, ALB, Cloud Front, etc.) using Terraform
• Manage end-to-end production workloads hosted on Docker and AWS
• Automate CI pipeline using Groovy DSL
• Deploy and configure Kubernetes clusters (EKS)
• Design and build a CI/CD Pipeline to deploy applications using Jenkins and Docker

Eligibility

• At least 8 years of proven experience in AWS-based DevOps/cloud engineering and implementations
• Expertise in all common AWS Cloud services like EC2, EKS, S3, VPC, Lambda, API Gateway, ALB, Redis, etc.
• Experience in deploying and managing production environments in Amazon AWS
• Strong experience in continuous integration and continuous deployment
• Knowledge of application build, deployment, and configuration using one of the tools: Jenkins

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At Toast, our Site Reliability Engineers (SREs) are responsible for keeping all customer-facing services and other Toast production systems running smoothly. SREs are a blend of pragmatic operators and software craftspeople who apply sound software engineering principles, operational discipline, and mature automation to our environments and our codebase. Our decisions are based on instrumentation and continuous observability, as well as predictions and capacity planning.

About this roll* (Responsibilities) 

• Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplift
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives

Troubleshooting and Supporting Escalations:

• Gather and analyze metrics from both operating systems and applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
• Diagnose performance bottlenecks and implement optimizations across infrastructure, databases, web, and mobile applications
• Implement strategies to increase system reliability and performance through on-call rotation and process optimization
• Perform and run blameless RCAs on incidents and outages aggressively, looking for answers that will prevent the incident from ever happening again

Do you have the right ingredients? (Requirements)

• Extensive industry experience with at least 7+ years in SRE and/or DevOps roles
• Polyglot technologist/generalist with a thirst for learning
• Deep understanding of cloud and microservice architecture and the JVM
• Experience with tools such as APM, Terraform, Ansible, GitHub, Jenkins, and Docker
• Experience developing software or software projects in at least four languages, ideally including two of Go, Python, and Java
• Experience with cloud computing technologies ( AWS cloud provider preferred)

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Roles & Responsibilities :

• Champion engineering and operational excellence.
• Establish a solid infrastructure framework and excellent development and deployment processes.
• Provide technical guidance to both your team members and your peers from the development team.
• Work with the development teams closely to gather system requirements, new service proposals and large system improvements and come up with the infrastructure architecture leading to stable, well-monitored fly, performant and secure systems.
• Be part of and help create a positive work environment based on accountability.
• Communicate across functions and drive engineering initiatives.
• Initiate cross team collaboration with product development teams to develop high quality, polished products, and services.

Required Skills :

• 5+ years of professional experience developing and launching software products on Cloud.
• Basic understanding Java/Go Programming
• Good Understanding of Container Technologies/Orchestration platforms (e. g Docker, Kubernetes)
• Deep understanding of AWS or Any Cloud.
• Good understanding of data stores like Postgres, Redis, Kafka, and Elasticsearch.
• Good Understanding of Operating systems
• Strong technical background with track record of individual technical accomplishments
• Ability to handle multiple competing priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Ability to establish credibility with smart engineers quickly.
• Most importantly, ability to learn and urge to learn new things.
• B.Tech/M.Tech in Computer Science or a related technical field.

Job Description:

• Hands on experience with Ansible & Terraform.
• Scripting language, such as Python or Bash or PowerShell is required and willingness to learn and master others. 
• Troubleshooting and resolving automation, build, and CI/CD related issues (in cloud environment like AWS or Azure).
• Experience with Kubernetes is mandate.
• To develop and maintain tooling and environments for test and production environments.
• Assist team members in the development and maintenance of tooling for integration testing, performance testing, security testing, as well as source control systems (that includes working in CI systems like Azure DevOps, Team City, and orchestration tools like Octopus).
• Good with Linux environment.

Rules & Responsibilities:

• Design, implement and maintain all AWS infrastructure and services within a managed service environment
• Should be able to work on 24 X 7 shifts for support of infrastructure.
• Design, Deploy and maintain enterprise class security, network and systems management applications within an AWS environment
• Design and implement availability, scalability, and performance plans for the AWS managed service environment
• Continual re-evaluation of existing stack and infrastructure to maintain optimal performance, availability and security
• Manage the production deployment and deployment automation
• Implement process and quality improvements through task automation
• Institute infrastructure as code, security automation and automation or routine maintenance tasks
• Experience with containerization and orchestration tools like docker, Kubernetes
• Build, Deploy and Manage Kubernetes clusters thru automation
• Create and deliver knowledge sharing presentations and documentation for support teams
• Learning on the job and explore new technologies with little supervision
• Work effectively with onsite/offshore teams

Qualifications:

• Must have Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field and 4+ years of experience in IT
• Experience in designing, implementing, and maintaining all AWS infrastructure and services
• Design and implement availability, scalability, and performance plans for the AWS managed service environment
• Continual re-evaluation of existing stack and infrastructure to maintain optimal performance, availability, and security
• Hands-on technical expertise in Security Architecture, automation, integration, and deployment
• Familiarity with compliance & security standards across the enterprise IT landscape
• Extensive experience with Kubernetes and AWS(IAM, Route53, SSM, S3, EFS, EBS, ELB, Lambda, CloudWatch, CloudTrail, SQS, SNS, RDS, Cloud Formation, DynamoDB)
• Solid understanding of AWS IAM Roles and Policies
• Solid Linux experience with a focus on web (Apache Tomcat/Nginx)
• Experience with automation/configuration management using Terraform\Chef\Ansible or similar.
• Understanding of protocols/technologies like Microservices, HTTP/HTTPS, SSL/TLS, LDAP, JDBC, SQL, HTML
• Experience in managing and working with the offshore teams
• Familiarity with CI/CD systems such as Jenkins, GitLab CI
• Scripting experience (Python, Bash, etc.)
• AWS, Kubernetes Certification is preferred
• Ability to work with and influence Engineering teams