Principal Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - Hyderabad, India - Splunk Inc

Description

Join us as we pursue our ground-breaking vision to make machine data accessible, usable, and valuable to everyone.

We are a company filled with people who are passionate about our product and seek to deliver the best experience for our customers.

At Splunk, we are committed to our work, customers, having fun, and most significantly to each other's success.

The provides full-fidelity monitoring and fixing across infrastructure, applications, and user interfaces, in real-time and at any scale, to help our customers keep their services reliable, innovate faster, and deliver great customer experiences.

Infrastructure Software Engineers at Splunk are cloud-native systems engineers who use infrastructure-as-code, microservices, automation, and efficient design to build, operate, and scale our products.

RoleYou will help us run one of the largest and most sophisticated cloud-scale, bigdata, and microservices platforms in the world.

You will be responsible to maintain and provision the base infrastructure that runs, including cloud compute platforms, managed services, Kubernetes, and required tooling.

You will be a key part of the team that strives to offer a fully automated and self-serve, secure, performant, compliant, and cost-efficient Platform-as-a

• Service that follows cloud native best practices and empowers product teams to easily and quickly deploy and operate workloads.

You are passionate about automation, infrastructure-as-code, microservices, and getting rid of tedious, manual tasks.

You will:
Set technical direction, author design docs, and get consensus from internal and external partners.
Develop new processes to make the team more efficient and effective.
Collaborate with other team leaders to orchestrate large system changes.
Spend a significant amount of time on technical leadership activities in addition to hands-on technical work.
Mentor new engineers to achieve more than they thought possible. You enjoy making other teams successful and are fulfilled through the success of others.

You will work on infrastructure projects, including:

Adopting new cloud-native frameworks and servicesAutomating cloud provider infrastructure via Terraform, Kubernetes, and HelmDeveloping code for tools and automation to reduce manual tasks and reduce human errorEstablishing and documenting run books and guidelines for using the multi-cloud infrastructure and microservices platform.

Improve the resiliency of multi-cloud microservices platformNetworking, routing, and load balancingSecurity vulnerability remediation and patching automationAutomating deployment of our services in new provider zones/regionsDesigning and productionizing access tiers to provide appropriate permissions across rolesQualificationsMust

• Have:7+ years of strong hands on cloud infrastructure experience on public cloud platforms specifically AWS or GCP.

3+ years of strong hands-on experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting large-scale Kubernetes clusters in the public cloudExperience with Infrastructure-as

• Code using Terraform and/or Helm.

Experience with infrastructure automation and scripting using Python and/or bash scripting.

Knowledge of microservices fundamentals including Service Mesh using Istio, service discovery, deployment strategies, monitoring, scheduling, and load balancingExperience leading large-scale technical initiatives across multiple teams.

Excellent problem-solving, triaging, and debugging skills in large-scale distributed systemsPreferred:AWS Solutions Architect certification preferred.
CKA and HashiCorp-certified Terraform Associate certifications preferredExperience with Infrastructure-as

• Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, Google Deployment Manager, Pulumi, Packer, ARM, etc.

Experience with developing infrastructure or platform services using GoLang or Python.
Experience with CI/CD frameworks and Pipeline-as

• Code such as Jenkins, Spinnaker, Gitlab, Argo, Artifactory, etc.

Exposure to monitoring tools such as Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack, etc. in order to build observability for large-scale microservice deployments.

Experience with one or more security/compliance frameworks such as SOC2, PCI, and/or FedRAMP.Proven skills to effectively work across teams and functions to influence the design, operations, and deployment of highly available software.

Bachelors/Masters in Computer Science, Engineering, or related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.