Remote Senior Staff Engineer

Summary

Join our dynamic and non-hierarchical team as a Cloud Infrastructure Lead! We're looking for someone with 10+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure management, strong leadership skills, and expertise in ELK stack, Kubernetes, New Relic, and OpenTelemetry. If you have relevant certifications like CKA or AWS Certified Solutions Architect, that's a plus!

Requirements

• Experience: 10+ Years
• Proven experience as a Cloud Infrastructure Lead or similar role, with a strong background in cloud infrastructure management
• Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure services and best practices
• Proficiency with the ELK stack (Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana) for monitoring and log management
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes for container orchestration, including deployment, scaling, and management
• Experience with New Relic for application performance monitoring
• Familiarity with OpenTelemetry for observability and tracing
• Excellent leadership and team management skills, with the ability to mentor and guide junior engineers
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively in a cross-functional team environment
• Relevant certifications such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), AWS Certified Solutions Architect, or similar are a plus

Responsibilities

• Understanding the client’s business use cases and technical requirements and be able to convert them into technical design which elegantly meets the requirements
• Mapping decisions with requirements and be able to translate the same to developers
• Identifying different solutions and being able to narrow down the best option that meets the client’s requirements
• Defining guidelines and benchmarks for NFR considerations during project implementation
• Writing and reviewing design document explaining overall architecture, framework, and high-level design of the application for the developers
• Reviewing architecture and design on various aspects like extensibility, scalability, security, design patterns, user experience, NFRs, etc., and ensure that all relevant best practices are followed
• Developing and designing the overall solution for defined functional and non-functional requirements; and defining technologies, patterns, and frameworks to materialize it
• Understanding and relating technology integration scenarios and applying these learnings in projects
• Resolving issues that are raised during code/review, through exhaustive systematic analysis of the root cause, and being able to justify the decision taken
• Carrying out POCs to make sure that suggested design/technologies meet the requirements