Acquia Cloud Edge Team - Senior Software Engineer

Acquia empowers the worlds most ambitious brands to create digital customer experiences that matter. With open source Drupal at its core, the Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) enables marketers, developers, & IT operations teams at thousands of global organizations to rapidly compose & deploy digital products & services that engage customers, enhance conversions, & help businesses stand out.

Headquartered in the U.S., Acquia is a Great Place to Work-Certified^TM company in India, is listed as one of the worlds top software companies by The Software Report, & is positioned as a market leader by the analyst community. We are Acquia. We are building for the future & we want you to be a part of it!

Job Responsibilities: 

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

Requirement: 

• 5+ years of experience in design & Software Development Background & over 1-2 years of experience in working with Containers & Cloud-Native Development 
• Proficient with Kubernetes/Swarm architecture with hands-on production experience with container technologies & the tools & challenges around them 
• Experience in developing applications using programming languages such as Go, Python, PHP, Ruby & shell scripting
• Proficient with object oriented programming & Software design patterns
• Proficient with service discovery, networking in Kubernetes or equivalent, monitoring, logging, scheduling
• Experience in container architecture, docker engine, runtime, container orchestration, & 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 & Cloudformation 
• Experience operating with TCP/IP, load balancing, security & operating production environments
• Strong Knowledge on the network layers, varnish & nginx
• Experience with distributed System Management/tracking & monitoring such as ELK Stack, Prometheus
• Strong oral & written communication skills 
• Strong team collaboration & leadership skills 
• Familiarity with Agile processes (Kanban, Scrum, etc.) 

Good to have: 

• 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 & Kustomize development for deploying Kubernetes workloads
• Hands-on experience working with metrics & creating dashboards (Prometheus/Sumologic/Splunk etc) 
• Hands-on experience configuring & deploying nginx and/or nginx-ingress-controller as reverse proxy
• Strong understanding of L.A.M.P. stack hosting model

Qualifications: 

• BS in Computer Science (preferred), or a comparable field of study, or equivalent practical experience 
• Certification in AWS would be a plus 
• CKA Professional certification would be plus.

Acquia is proud to provide best-in-class benefits to help our employees & their families maintain a healthy body & mind. Core Benefits include: competitive healthcare coverage, wellness programs, take it when you need it time off, parental leave, recognition programs, & much more!

Individuals seeking employment at Acquia are considered without regard to race, color, religion, caste, creed, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Whatever you answer will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter.