Senior 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.

Theprovides 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.
Role
You 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:

Design new services, tools, and monitoring to be implemented by the entire team.

Analyze the tradeoffs of the proposed design and make recommendations based on these tradeoffs.

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 services

Automating cloud provider infrastructure via Terraform, Kubernetes, and Helm

Developing code for tools and automation to reduce manual tasks and reduce human error

Establishing and documenting run books and guidelines for using the multi-cloud infrastructure and microservices platform.

Improve the resiliency of multi-cloud microservices platform

Networking, routing, and load balancing

Security vulnerability remediation and patching automation

Automating deployment of our services in new provider zones/regions

Designing and productionizing access tiers to provide appropriate permissions across roles

QualificationsMust-Have:

5+ years of solid hands-on cloud infrastructure experience on public cloud platforms specifically AWS or GCP.

2+ years of strong hands-on experience deploying, managing, and troubleshooting large-scale Kubernetes clusters in the public cloud

Experience 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 balancing

Excellent problem-solving, triaging, and debugging skills in large-scale distributed systems

Preferred:

AWS Solutions Architect certification preferred.

CKA and HashiCorp-certified Terraform Associate certifications preferred

Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, Google Deployment Manager, Packer, Pulumi, 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.

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.