Network Product Engineer

·        Practices self-leadership and promotes learning in others by building relationships with cross- functional stakeholders; communicating information and providing advice to drive projects forward; adapting to competing demands and new responsibilities; providing feedback to others; mentoring junior team members; creating and executing plans to capitalize on strengths and improve opportunity areas; and adapting to and learning from change, difficulties, and feedback.

·        Ensure appropriate translation of business requirements and functional specifications into physical program designs, code modules, stable application systems, and software solutions by partnering with Business Analysts and other team members to understand business needs and functional specifications.

·        Build use cases/scenarios and reference architectures to enable rapid adoption of cloud services

in Product’s cloud journey.

·        Provide insight into recommendations for technical solutions that meet design and functional needs.

·        Experience or familiarity with Firewall/NGFW deployed in a variety of form factors (Checkpoint, Imperva, Palo Alto, Azure Firewall).

·        Establish credibility & build deep relationships with senior technical individuals to enable them to be cloud advocates.

·        Participate in deep architectural discussions to build confidence and ensure engineering success when building new and migrating existing applications, software. and services to AWS and GCP.

·        Conduct deep-dive hands-on education/training sessions to transfer knowledge to DevOps and engineering teams considering or already using public cloud services.

·        Be a cloud (Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud Platform) and DevOps evangelist and advise the stakeholders on cloud readiness, workload identification, migration and identifying the right multi cloud mix to effectively accomplish business objectives.

·        Understands engineering requirements and architect scalable solutions adopting DevOps and leveraging advanced technologies such as AWS CodePipelines, AWS Code-Commit, ECS containers, API Gateway, CloudFormation Templates, AWS Kinesis, Splunk, Dome9, AWS-SQS, AWS-SNS, SonarCube, Microservices, and Kubernetes to realize stronger benefits and future proof outcomes for customer-facing applications.

·        Build use cases/scenarios and reference architectures to enable rapid adoption of cloud services in product’s cloud journey.

·        Be an integral part of the technology and architecture community in the public cloud partners (AWS, GCP, Azure) and bring in new services launched by cloud providers into 8K Miles Product Platform scope.

·        Capture and share best-practice knowledge amongst the DevOps and Cloud community.

·        Act as a technical liaison between product management, service engineering, and support teams.

·        Qualification:

o   Master’s Degree in Computer Science/Engineering with 12+ years’ experience in information technology (networking, infrastructure, database).

o   Strong and recent exposure to AWS/GCP/Azure Cloud platforms and designing hybrid multi cloud solutions. Preferred to be Certified AWS Architect professional or similar

·        Working knowledge of UNIX shell scripting.

·        Strong hands-on programming experience in Python

·        Working knowledge of data visualization tools – Tableau.

·        Experience working in cloud environment — AWS.

·        Experience working with modern tools in the Agile Software Development Life Cycle.

·        Version Control Systems (Ex. Git, Github, Stash/Bitbucket), Knowledge Management (Ex. Confluence, Google Docs), Development Workflow (Ex. Jira), Continuous Integration (Ex. Bamboo), Real Time Collaboration (Ex. Hipchat, Slack).

Responsibilities

• Plan & Write well-designed code.
• Design overall architecture of the web application and maintain quality and ensure responsiveness of applications.
• Collaborate with the rest of the engineering team and work on code versioning tools such as GIT.
• Carry out risk analysis of introducing new technology for development and infrastructure to ensure security and ultimate goal.
• Maintaining existing codebase, to include troubleshooting bugs and adding new features.
• Understanding and implementation of security and data protection.
• Documenting application changes and developing updates.
• Develop the quality product using best practices.
• Agile and Scrum development methodology (Working in Sprint) Scrum Planning /Refinement /Retrospective
• Understand company needs to define system specifications
• Plan and design the structure of a technology solution
• Communicate system requirements to software development teams
• Evaluate and select appropriate software or hardware and suggest integration methods
• Execute the programs with the highest process and standards for a successful delivery. 
• Oversee assigned programs (e.g. conduct code review) and provide guidance to team members.
• Assist with solving technical problems when they arise
• Ensure the implementation of agreed architecture and infrastructure.
• Address technical concerns, ideas, and suggestions.
• Monitor systems to ensure they meet both user needs and business goals.
• Participate in the process of defining, implementing, and enhancing across the organization.
• Involve in the hiring, training, and team-building exercises. 
• Strategic skills to study and grow processes, people, and technology at the organization.
• Establish and initiate the necessary research and development programs by external and internal communication to upbringing the organization in the technical and non-technical front.  
• Resource allocation, planning, and training as per the program requirement. 

• Responsible for the quality and quantity of the engineering output.
• Responsible for the continuous, iterative improvement of our engineering team.
• Responsible for the overall planning, execution, and success of complex technical projects.
• Work closely with the client & product management team to ensure we are building the best products & the team is aligned with product goals.
• When necessary, act as Programmer, QA, Architect, PM, etc for short periods.

• Talk to engineers to tease out concerns early, then fix them when possible.
• Resolve conflicts or performance problems with engineers.
• Embody the engineering culture and contribute to its advancement, inspiring everyone to live up to it.
• Maintainer and contributor to our company engineering internal and public artifacts such as our quality standards and guidelines.
• Represent the engineering with other departments and ensure we provide engineering support wherever necessary in the company.
• Support team happiness. :)

• Attract, nurture, coach, and retain talent.
• Ensure every assigned engineer has a career progression plan with regular check-in points and real-time feedback.
• Ensure engineers are provided with continuous and valuable learning opportunities.
• Contribute to determining engineering salary ranges and adjustments.
• Contribute to defining and building the vision for our engineering organization.
• Contribute to defining quality standards for our work.
• Contribute to creating training and learning material and opportunities for engineers.

• Run and/or participate in project kick-offs.
• Work with your team to select and design the software architecture, tools, and platforms used to deliver client projects.
• Define quality standards for client projects.

• BSc/BE/BTech in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field
• 10+ years of Experience with  at least one scripting language: PHP, JAVA, Angular, React, Ruby, Nodejs, Python, AppleScript, Unix shell, or similar
• Good knowledge of operating systems and networking concepts
• Aggressive problem diagnosis and creative problem-solving skills
• Startup mentality, high willingness to learn, and hardworking
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills
• Team player
• Good time-management skills
• Great interpersonal and communication skills
• Good to have - Experience with Google Maps API
• Good to have - Familiar with testing frameworks (Ex. Jasmine)