Senior Software Engineer - Infrastructure
- Location
- Redmond, WA
- Job type
- Full-time
- Level
- Lead / Staff
- Experience
- 5+ years
- Education
- Bachelor's degree
- Listed
- 28 days ago
Skills & highlights for this role
- Kubernetes
- Infrastructure as Code
- Helm
- Prometheus
- Azure Monitor
- CI/CD
Also useful
- Bicep
- Grafana
- Azure Data Explorer
About the role
Automate monitors and critical alerts using best in class observability tools such as: Azure Monitor, Prometheus, Azure Data Explorer, Grafana. Automate CI/CD deployments using YAML builds and releases. You'll work across teams to help make the whole organization successful. Your responsibilities will include the following: Extensive experience with Kubernetes cluster creation, management, and optimization.
Hands-on experience with CPU/GPU support in Kubernetes. Expert level knowledge around security and compliance experience for Kubernetes. Extensive experience developing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and Configuration as Code (CaC) solutions using tools like YAML, Bicep, and Helm. Solid understanding of networking in k8s for inter, intra and external pod-to-pod, control and data plane communications.
Write clean and concise code with unit tests. Design, implement, and support new features as well as extend existing systems. Investigate live site issues and implement and deploy fixes. Participate in an on-call rotation. Security Configuration and Compliance: Configure, update, and maintain security tools used for endpoint security, log collection and reporting, vulnerability, and compliance scanning.
Hardening and compliance with best practices, benchmarks, and remediate vulnerabilities as reported by security. Uses appropriate artificial intelligence (AI) tools and practices across the software development lifecycle (SDLC) in a disciplined manner. Takes responsibility for the content of their AI-generated changes to artifacts, reviewing all changes and applying appropriate tooling and processes with minimal guidance.
Own platform engineering areas including AKS fleet management, monitoring and alerting, CI/CD automation, and production operations. Drive operational excellence by troubleshooting live-site issues, participating in on-call, and continuously improving service quality and engineering practices.
Provide technical leadership through architecture decisions, cross-team collaboration, code and design reviews, and raising the engineering quality bar across the organization.
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 4+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python Master's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 6+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related technical field AND 8+ years technical engineering experience with coding in languages including, but not limited to, C, C++, C#, Java, JavaScript, or Python OR equivalent experience Experience in K8s platform design and implementation at scale 5+ years of experience with coding in one of C#, Python, Go, Rust, Java, C or C++.
Experience with improving service operations or engineering fundamentals Excellent collaboration skills, team player, thrive to make a difference Excellent architecture and design skills
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