Microsoft/ Cloud Engineer

About Astra:

Astra is a cyber security SaaS company that makes otherwise chaotic pentests a breeze with its one of a kind Pentest Platform. Astra's continuous vulnerability scanner emulates hacker behavior to scan applications for 9300+ security tests. CTOs & CISOs love Astra because it helps them fix vulnerabilities in record time and move from DevOps to DevSecOps with Astra's CI/CD integrations.

Astra is loved by 650+ companies across the globe. In 2023 Astra uncovered 2 million+ vulnerabilities for its customers, saving customers $69M+ in potential losses due to security vulnerabilities. 

We've been awarded by the President of France Mr. François Hollande at the La French Tech program and Prime Minister of India Shri Narendra Modi at the Global Conference on Cyber Security. Loom, MamaEarth, Muthoot Finance, Canara Robeco, ScripBox etc. are a few of Astra’s customers.

Role Overview:

As a Tech Lead/Principal SDE, you'll be leading the engineering team for the 0->1 journey of an upcoming product in our platform. You will be the owner of the product and would requires a unique balance between hands-on development, architecture knowledge and production support.

You would be ensuring technical excellence, innovation, and alignment within your team. Drive feature design, ensuring regular releases, system optimization, and mentorship while shaping our overall tech strategy along with the Technical Program Manager (TPM).

This is a high visibility & high impact role, where you will be working with the founders & TPM directly. You will be leading the 0->1 journey of an upcoming product in our platform.

Love solving hard problems? Want to build high impact products rooted in first principles? Is coding your poetry? Join us in shaping the future of cyber security.

Roles & Responsibilities:

• Specialization in Technology: Act as the go-to person for specific technologies and proactively learn new ones to stay ahead in the industry.
• Technical Architecture: Create the technical architecture for the product, and keep evolving it to meet future requirements, defining and ensuring adherence to SLAs. Focus on reducing technical debt within the product.
• Ownership and Monitoring: Take ownership of production operations, releases, ensuring system uptime, and being mindful of Service Level Agreements (SLAs).
• Hands-On Coding: Engage in hands-on coding activities, contributing 30% to 70% of your time to development tasks.
• Be like Yoda: The wise and learned mentor who guides others through challenges. If the engineering team is stuck, you should be able to step in, and show them how it's done.
• Team Coordination: Coordinate team members, providing constructive feedback, and facilitate productive discussions.
• Process Adjustment: Adapt and refine team processes based on feedback, guiding the team through necessary changes.
• Technology Evangelism: Research, create proofs of concept, and introduce innovative technologies to the team.
• Process Definition: Define and implement appropriate processes for the team’s maturity level, balancing agility and discipline.
• Company-wide Impact: Contribute to the overall tech organization, influencing its direction and strategies.

Role Expectations:

• Quarterly Co-working: You would be expected to work for 1-2 weeks out of Bengaluru once every quarter depending on the requirements. Rest of the time will be fully remote.
• Architecture and Integration: Lead architectural discussions and ensure seamless product integration.
• Tech Mentoring and Alignment: Mentor team members, drive technology adoption, and ensure alignment with company goals.
• Technical Experiments: Conduct technical experiments, and drive innovation within the team.
• Code Reviews and Feedback: Conduct thorough code reviews and provide constructive feedback to team members.
• System Design Presentations: Present and communicate system designs effectively within the team and to stakeholders.
• Technical Capacity Planning: Plan and forecast technical resource requirements, contributing to hiring decisions.
• Production Issue Management: Manage and escalate production issues, ensuring timely resolution and minimal downtime. What you build is what you own.
• System SLAs and Monitoring: Define and monitor system SLAs, metrics, and performance indicators.
• Product Direction and Practices: Define product direction & roadmap, establish best practices, and drive continuous improvement.
• Cross-team collaboration: Collaborate with other Tech leads, Technical Program Manager, Product manager, leadership to ensure alignment and synergy
• Development Process Improvement: Continuously improve the development process, promoting efficiency and quality.

Required Qualifications & Skills:

• 5+ years experience in a similar role or similar working experience
• Strong product & development background preferably in dev-tools or infra product is highly desirable (as a developer, SDET, architect, etc).
• Experience with OpenTelemetry, eBPF, Kong, Envoy, AWS Mirroring etc.
• Familiarity with cloud platforms such as AWS, Google Cloud, Azure etc.
• Knowledge of application & infrastructure security is preferred - helps you stand out 😉
• Knowledge of GoLang, Python, JavaScript
• Experience with DevOps - Docker, Kubernetes, GitHub Actions.
• Proven experience in leading and managing technical teams, including mentoring and coaching team members.
• Strong understanding of software architecture principles and design patterns. Experience leading change in large-scale systems.
• Experience with database technologies (SQL, NoSQL) and data modeling.
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
• Excellent problem-solving skills and the ability to think strategically about technical solutions.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional remote teams.
• Demonstrated track record of delivering high-quality software products on schedule.
• Experience with system monitoring and performance optimization.
• Knowledge of industry best practices in software development, security, and compliance.

What We offer:

• Adrenalin rush of being a part of a fast-growing company.
• Fully remote & agile working environment.
• A wholesome opportunity in a fast-paced environment where you get to build things from scratch, improve and influence product design decisions.
• Holistic understanding of SaaS and enterprise security business.
• Opportunity to engage and collaborate with developers globally.
• Experience with security side of things.
• Annual trips to beaches or mountains (last one was Chikmangaluru).
• Open and supportive culture.
• Health insurance & other benefits.

One of our premium-based customers, we are looking to hire a team of Azure .Net Architects in Bangalore/Pune/Noida, looking for Tech Geeks, who have 14+ years of experience full-time.

PFB the JD: Proven Full Stack development skills and have solid business acumen and hands-on experience in architecting solutions

-14+ years Exp

-Expertise in designing and developing Cloud Native applications using Azure Services and managing IaC using Terraform modules and ARM templates

 -Cloud Technologies: Azure Services(-(Paas Services, At least experience in some of the services is good enough - Logic Apps, API Management Service, Microsoft Graph API, Azure AD, Azure functions, Cosmos db(mongo db API), Event hub, Stream Analytics, Azure SQL Server, Azure storage table, Azure Storage Queue, Azure blob storage, Azure Event grid, Azure App Service, Application Insights, Azure ARM templates, Azure Worker Roles, Azure web jobs, Azure Relay services, Azure KeyVault, Azure App Services, Logic Apps)

- App Service, Azure Functions, VMs, ASF, AKS, Azure Container Registry, Key Vault, Cosmos DB, Azure SQL, Azure AD, Azure B2C and B2B, APIM, Azure Monitor and App insight

-Containerization tools: Docker, Azure Kubernetes Services, Azure Container Registry

-Infrastructure as Code tools: Terraform, and ARM templates

-DevOps tools: Azure DevOps, CI/CD using Git and Azure Pipeline, Azure Repos

-Microsoft Technologies: ASP.NET Core, .NET Core Web API, .NET, ASP.Net MVC, ADO.Net, TPL, LINQ, PLINQ, WCF Services, ASP .Net Web API, Angular

-Databases: NoSQL/document Databases Azure Cosmos DB, Oracle

 -Strong experience in SQL -Experience in Integration or service layer is recommended

CoreStack, an AI-powered multi-cloud governance solution, empowers enterprises to rapidly achieve Continuous and Autonomous Cloud Governance at Scale. CoreStack enables enterprises to realize outcomes such as 40% decrease in cloud costs and 50% increase in operational efficiencies by governing operations, security, cost, access, and resources. CoreStack also assures 100% compliance with standards such as ISO, FedRAMP, NIST, HIPAA, PCI-DSS, AWS CIS & Well Architected Framework (WAF). We work with many large global customers across multiple industries including Financial Services, Healthcare, Retail, Education, Telecommunications, Technology and Government.

Responsibilities:

• Part of a Cloud Governance product team responsible for installing, configuring, automating and monitoring various Cloud Services (IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS)
• Be at the forefront of Cloud technology, assisting a global list of customers that consume multiple cloud environments.
• Ensure availability of internal & customers' hosts and services thru monitoring, analysing metric trends, investigating alerts.
• Explore and implement a broad spectrum of open source technologies. Help the team/customer to resolve technical issues.
• Extremely customer focused, flexible to be available on-call for solving critical problems.
• Contribute towards the process improvement involving the Product deployments, Cloud Governance & Customer Success.

Skills Required

• Minimum 3+ Years of experience with a B.E/B.Tech
• Experience in managing Azure IaaS, PaaS services for customer production environments
• Well versed in DevOps technologies, automation, infrastructure orchestration, configuration management and CI/CD
• Experience in Linux and Windows Administration, server hardening and security compliance
• Web and Application Server technologies (e.g. Apache, Nginx, IIS)
• Good command in at least one scripting language (e.g. Bash, PowerShell, Ruby, Python)
• Networking protocols such as HTTP, DNS and TCP/IP
• Experience in managing version control platforms (e.g. Git, SVN)

Responsibilities:

• Investigate technologies and solutions which help the team achieve deliverables and results.
• Working with business process analysts and technical leads to derive conceptual designs and solutions.
• Assisting project managers with sizing estimates and work-breakdown structures.
• Develop and unit test software within teams of varied sizes and geographical distributions.
• Benchmarking and load testing developed modules and integrated applications.
• Assisting quality assurance team in the conduct of solution testing.
• Documenting software specifications and requirements.
• Working with infrastructure teams to define and establish application environments and implementation of software applications.
• Provide post-implementation support for developed software applications and solutions.

Measures of Success:

• The delivery of software solutions that meets requirements and are within budget and project timeline.
• Achieves good quality development metrics and standards that are aligned with industry best practices.
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  Skill Requirements:
• Knowledge of General Open System / Distributed systems platforms
• Knowledge of cloud service like AWS, Azure, GCP
• Experience in developing and implementing Restful APIs
• Good understanding of Network ports/Transfer protocols.
• Ability to process/analyze large amounts of data and logs.
• UI and Backend Development experience (Full stack).
• 6+ years of experience in software development within Linux environment; with a strong focus on development using JAVA, Javascript, C and BASH shell & Python scripting.
• Experienced in structured and agile development methodologies.
• Experienced in load testing and benchmarking tools such as JMeter, Loadrunner, etc.
• Experienced in Linux-based database technology and versed with stored procedures.
• Experienced in web services developments using XML, SOAP, JSON.
• Knowledge of application security setup using common security standards like SSL, TLS, secured ciphers, etc.
• Experienced with software versioning control using GIT.

Soft Skills:

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills.
• Strong problem solving and analytical skills.
• Self-motivated and detail-oriented with a desire to design and develop top quality software products.

Basic Qualifications for Consideration:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Computer Science or related
• Minimum 4 years of experience