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 design and implement end-to-end container management solution with Kubernetes, Docker, and Go-based Kubernetes operators using the kube-builder SDK.

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
• 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 programming languages such as Go, Python, PHP, Ruby and shell scripting
• Proficient with object oriented programming and Software design patterns
• Proficient with service discovery, networking in Kubernetes or equivalent, monitoring, logging, scheduling
• Experience in container architecture, docker engine, runtime, container orchestration, and microservice patterns
• Experience working with AWS services such as - EC2, EBS, ALB, ECS, EKS, VPC, S3
• 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
• Strong Knowledge on the network layers, varnish and nginx
• Experience with distributed System Management/tracking and monitoring such as ELK Stack, Prometheus
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Strong team collaboration and leadership skills
• Familiarity with Agile processes (Kanban, Scrum, etc.)
• BS in Computer Science (preferred), or a comparable field of study, or equivalent practical experience

Responsibilities

• Participate in designing and implementing solutions for modernizing Acquia infrastructure and drive adoption of Kubernetes and Cloud-Native Technologies
• Design and implement end-to-end container management solution with Kubernetes, Docker
• Design and develop Go based Kubernetes operators using the kube-builder SDK
• Set up Kubernetes as a platform with enterprise-level reliability, availability, scalability and performance requirements
• Support engineering teams to design and implement application prototypes, using modern application development practices and open source emerging technologies, covering domains like microservices, API management, web-scale architectures
• Debug technical issues inside a very deep and complex technical stack involving containers, microservices, AWS services across the different layers of a web stack (Edge, Data, etc.)
• Contribute as part of a larger team to maintain a deep understanding of system functionality and architecture, with a primary focus on the operational aspects of the service (availability, performance, change management, emergency response, capacity planning, etc)
• Evaluate new technologies and provide a recommendation to management including planning and execution of proof of concept activities

Preferred Qualifications

• Networking experience (configuring TLS Certificates, reverse-proxies, subnetting, L4/L7 load-balancing configuration)
• Linux administration (troubleshooting workloads in a linux-based hosting environment, bonus in Kubernetes)
• PHP, Ruby, Golang or any C-based programming experience
• Helm chart development and Kustomize development for deploying Kubernetes workloads
• Hands-on experience working with metrics and creating dashboards (Prometheus/Sumologic/Splunk etc)
• Hands-on experience configuring and deploying nginx and/or nginx-ingress-controller as reverse proxy
• Strong understanding of L.A.M.P. stack hosting model

Benefits

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