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IllumioIllumioSunnyvale, CA

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.

194k – 233k
On-site7+ YOEDevOps / SRE

About the role

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

AWSAzureGCPKubernetesDockerJavaPythonTerraformCloudFormationREST APIsSpring

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