Senior System Engineer

Responsibilities
Design and build automated code deployment systems that simplify development work and make our work more consistent and predictable
    Create mechanisms/architectures that enable rapid recovery, repair and cleanup of faulty migrations with good understanding of fault tolerance and failure domains
    Identify opportunities to deliver self-service capability for the most common infrastructure and application management tasks
    Improve the predictability and reliability of software releases with the implementation of automated build, test and deployment tools and processes
    Engage with Software Engineering in the design and development of software tools to reliably manage application delivery
    Engage with Production Engineering in the design, implementation and maintenance of the build/release infrastructure
    Write code, integrate systems and build configurations to drive and innovate around Public Cloud based platform across the organization
    Move fast, break things, and determine how to fix them, test everything
    Work with stakeholders including the Data Science teams, Business Systems Analysts, and Architecture teams to assist with data platform technical and organizational issues, and support the company’s data and analytics needs.
    Educate, train, and mentor members of the Data Engineering and Analytics teams in the design, implementation, and usage of modern data systems.

Qualifications

    10+ years of experience. 4+ year of hands on professional software development experience architecting, building, deploying, and maintaining customer facing applications at scale in an innovative engineering environment, hands-on experience with Java is a plus
    Fluency at the unix command line, including basic text manipulation utilities and system performance analysis.
    Experience in managing Big data platform or Cloud PaaS / IaaS/ SaaS
    Experience in managing Databases like MySQL, Exasol, Cassandra, Mongo is a plus.
    Hands on experience with Strong technical skills in SQL and Informatica 10 x
    Advanced working SQL knowledge and experience working with relational databases query authoring SQL as well as working familiarity with a variety of databases(oracle, exasol)

Administration, Configuration Management And Automation

    Knowledge on Ansible – create, maintain and run Ansible playbooks (tasks, handlers, conditionals, loops and registers)
    You have experience in describing the infrastructure configuration as a code with Hashicorp Terraform with the usage of different providers
    Experience in administration & scaling of clusters like Kafka, Apache Spark, Storm and Flink.

Software Engineering

You have knowledge of

    Common API concepts and standards as well as aspects of data storage, service status and session handling
    How to operate with CI/CD pipelines, Jenkins experience is a plus
    Understanding of the components of a CI/CD pipeline
    Deployment best practices/strategies
    The Twelve-Factor app methodology

Architecture Of The Infrastructure

    Experience in building and running production systems utilizing microservices and distributed systems architecture at scale
    You have a background in workload based on cloud-based system with at least one of the leading public cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Container And Machine Deployment

    You have working experience with containers and orchestrators:
    You know how to build and operate Docker containers – architecture, construction and optimization
    You have experience with defining and manage applications that operate on orchestration platforms – Kubernetes, Rancher
    Experience with service-mesh architecture is a plus

Must Have

    Cloud Service Knowledge -GCP or AWS
    Infrastructure Automation Tools - Terraform
    Orchestration Tools - Kubernetes, Docker Compose
    Scripting - Bash, Shell, Python
    CI & CD - GitHub Action, Jenkins
    Database - SQL (MySQL/MariaDB/ PostgreSQL), NoSQL (Cassandra, HBase)
    Configuration Management & Admin -Kafka, Ansible
    SCM Tools - Git/GitHub, SVN
    Operating System - CentOS, RHEL
    Monitoring - Prometheus/ Grafana
    Logging - ELK, Fluentd
    ML Ops - Kubeflow, ML Flow

Good to Have

    Cloud Service Knowledge - Azure
    Infrastructure Automation Tools - Terragrunt or Terraspace
    Orchestration Tools - GKE, RKE
    Scripting - JavaScript, Ruby
    Database - Exasol, Mongo
    Configuration Management & Admin - Apache Spark, Storm, Flink
    Service Mesh - Istio, Any API Gateway
    Operating System - Debian
    ML Ops - Tensorflow, Pytorch
Leadership Competencies
Collaborative: Facilitates effective collaboration among coworkers and external partners by encouraging to work together as a team, to share their honest views and reacts in a non-defensive way, involves others as appropriate when making decisions on behalf of the team. Makes sure that both individuals and the team receive credit for contributions and accomplishments.
    Cultivates Innovation: Motivates others to find new and better ways to address challenges. Encourages people to incorporate varied perspectives to strengthen the innovation process. Provides support and resources for promising ideas through prototyping and experimentation. Challenges the team/ others to develop breakthrough solutions.
    Drives Results: Emphasizes the importance of achieving results; challenges poor outcomes or unproductive behaviors in workgroups. Provides assistance and encouragement to help workgroups/ project groups over obstacles. Takes steps to promote urgency in workgroups to reach goals and meet deadlines. Generally, overcomes obstacles and delivers results through a team.

    Other Leadership Competencies:
        Results
            Taking Initiative: Action Oriented, Resourcefulness
        Self
            Being Authentic: Instills Trust
            Being Flexible and Adaptable: Being Resilient, Manages Ambiguity, Nimble Learning
            Being Open: Demonstrates Self-Awareness, Self-Development, speak up & step up.
        Thought
            Making Complex Decisions: Balances Stakeholders, Decision Quality
            Understanding the Business: Business Insight, Customer Focus, Financial Acumen, Tech Savvy