SaaS Platform DevOps Lead Engineer

Position Role/Title: SaaS Platform DevOps Lead Engineer

Location: San Jose or San Diego, CA.

Job Description

As a SaaS Platform DevOps Lead Engineer , you will be responsible for delivering technology solutions by working closely with Product and Platform teams.

About The Role

• The role is of a DevOps engineer to work on enabling SaaS products to run on the SaaS Platform.
• The role needs an expert understanding of Docker and experience on running applications in Kubernetes.
• The role also involves cloud technologies - strong working experience in a public cloud (Google Cloud is preferred) is essential.
• The candidate should have strong experience of DevOps technologies like Ansible, Terraform, Terragrunt, and Jenkins.
• The candidate is expected to have a working understanding of data and messaging technologies like Kafka, Zookeeper, Elasticsearch. Understanding container monitoring and metrics solutions like Prometheus will be a plus.
• Design custom automation solutions based on the application/business requirements and workload characteristics.
• Understanding of High Availability architectures to maintain 99.99% availability SLA.
• Strong experience in performance tuning, identifying bottlenecks, and minimizing response time meeting performance SLAs as per business requirements. This requires close collaboration with Product Architects.
• Excellent application architecture and development awareness - architectural patterns, development lifecycle and tools, programming techniques, methods, languages, DevOps methods and tools, Agile / SAFe etc.
• Demonstrate and cultivate a passion for delivering high-quality products aligned with customer needs; increase customer exposure to build empathy.
• Employ continuous learning; build domain expertise and keep abreast on new technology, processes, systems, and tools.

How You'll Stand Out

• BS degree in Computer Science or related degree preferred.
• Minimum 12 years of experience in programming and DevOps technologies.
• Strong communication skills and ability to work effectively across multiple business and technical teams.
• Expertise in working with Agile/Scrum teams.
• Strong understanding of systems fundamentals including OS, networking, storage, load balancing, etc.
• Proficient in following technologies:
• Orchestration – Kubernetes, OpenShift, Docker.
• Languages – Python, Shell, Ant; Java or Golang will be a plus.
• DevOps tools – Ansible, Terraform, Terragrunt, Helm & Docker Compose, Jenkins (CI/CD).
• Cloud/PaaS Environments – Working knowledge of Google Cloud Platform (preferred), Amazon Web Services & Microsoft Azure.
• Middleware technologies – Elasticsearch, Logstash, Kibana, Kafka, RabbitMQ, Redis.
• A passion for automation to reduce repeatable mundane day-to-day tasks and improve consistency and results.
• Experience in any/combination of Monitoring tools – Stackdriver, Cloudwatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Alert Manager, AIOps.
• Experience with Migration of workloads across different Cloud platforms.
• Experience with running services in large Kubernetes clusters.
• Experience with documentation of standard procedures, architecture, design, and deployments.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, tight deadline delivery environment.