Senior Software Engineer (K8s)

Summary

Join Acquia's Cloud Edge Team as a Senior Software Engineer and contribute to designing and implementing solutions for modernizing Acquia infrastructure, driving adoption of Kubernetes and Cloud-Native Technologies. As a key member of the team, you will work collaboratively with front and back-end engineers, product managers, and product owners to develop secure and performant applications and APIs using Go, Ruby, AngularJs/ReactJS.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in design and Software Development Background
• Over 1-2 years of experience in working with Containers and Cloud-Native Development
• 2+ years of experience working with frontend technologies preferred AngularJs
• Proficient with Kubernetes/Swarm architecture with hands-on production experience with container technologies and the tools and challenges around them
• Experience in developing applications using Go,Python/PHP/Ruby and shell scripting
• Proficient with object oriented programming and microservices design patterns
• Proficient with service discovery, networking in Kubernetes or equivalent, monitoring, logging, scheduling
• Experience working with AWS services such as - EC2, EBS, ALB, EKS, VPC, S3, WAF etc
• Knowledge of CI/CD tools like Jenkins (preferred), Bamboo, Gitlab
• Experience working with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet and Cloudformation
• Experience operating with TCP/IP, load balancing, security and operating production environments
• Knowledge on the network layers, varnish and nginx
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong team collaboration and leadership skills
• Familiarity with Agile processes (Kanban, Scrum, etc.)

Responsibilities

• Participate in designing and implementing solutions for modernizing Acquia infrastructure
• Drive adoption of Kubernetes and Cloud-Native Technologies
• Work in a highly collaborative environment with front and back-end engineers, product managers, and product owners
• Develop secure and performant, world-class modern Applications and APIs using Go, Ruby, AngularJs/ReactJS
• Debug technical issues inside a very deep and complex technical stack involving containers, microservices, AWS services across the different layers of a web stack
• Work with other teams in deciding, developing integrations with other subsystems
• Provide product support to internal and external stakeholders
• Contribute to system architecture discussions, lead projects, mentor junior team members, and deliver high quality, tested code
• Evaluate new technologies and provide a recommendation to management including planning and execution of proof of concept activities

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working with any CDN such as - CloudFront, CloudFlare etc
• Experience in monitoring and observability with Sumologic/Prometheus/Grafana
• Experience working with helm, ingress, cert-manager, autoscaling, external-dns and logging operator in Kubernetes
• AWS/CKAD professional certification

Benefits

• Competitive healthcare coverage
• Wellness programs
• Take it when you need it time off
• Parental leave
• Recognition programs