Staff Engineer
Staff Engineer building scalable, resilient cloud architecture and distributed systems on AWS/Azure/GCP with Kubernetes for Illumio's Zero Trust cybersecurity platform. Requires strong cloud programming experience, distributed systems expertise, and 7+ years overall experience.
About the job
Your Impact
- Deliver cloud architecture that solves business problems while balancing architecture and business margins.
- Collaborate with cross-functional teams, including Product Managers, developers, and DevOps engineers to understand business requirements and architect scalable cloud solutions.
- Design, deploy, and manage cloud-based architecture using industry best practices, focusing on efficiency, scalability, availability, performance, and security.
- Evaluate and select appropriate cloud technologies, platforms, and tools, including Kubernetes, to meet the company's needs and drive innovation.
- Optimize cloud-based systems for high availability, fault tolerance, and disaster recovery.
- Implement and manage monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to ensure the health and performance of the cloud infrastructure.
- Identify and resolve performance bottlenecks, security vulnerabilities, and other operational issues in the cloud environment.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest trends, technologies, and best practices in cloud computing, distributed systems, and cybersecurity.
Your Toolkit
- Proven experience as a Cloud Architect or similar role, designing and implementing cloud-based solutions in a production environment.
- AWS / Azure / GCP cloud experience: extensively used one of these platforms at the API/programming level.
- Experience with networking and security controls is a plus.
- Experience in one or more programming languages: Java, Python.
- REST API client experience.
- CloudFormation, Terraform are nice to have.
- Working knowledge of Spring or similar ecosystems.
- Knowledge of Kubernetes and Docker containers is good to have.
- Gang of Four design patterns.
- Strong expertise in cloud platforms such as Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
- In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes and containerization technologies.
- Built highly scalable distributed systems from the ground up.
- Experience with building highly scalable and resilient cloud services.
- Excellent problem-solving and troubleshooting skills.
- Strong communication and collaboration abilities.
- Ability to work in an agile environment and drive initiatives with clarity and purpose.
Skills
AWS, Azure, GCP, Kubernetes, Docker, Java, Python, Terraform, CloudFormation, REST APIs, Spring
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