Specialist - Cloud Engineering

Platform Engineer II Cloud Ecosystems

Our mission is to create transformative innovative and personalized travel experiences for millions of customers all across the world. We want customers to have an amazing experience wherever and whenever they choose mobile web and through partners and 3rd parties

About the team Cloud Ecosystems

The Cloud Ecosystems group builds operates and enables use of private and public cloud infrastructure within Compute capabilities are provided on platform instances that are privately owned and centrally managed by us. These platform instances and the workloads running on them are hosted both in datacenters onpremises and on public cloud infrastructure AWS

The Cloud Ecosystems team in Bangalore is responsible for shaping the future of our Kubernetes based container orchestration platform our Virtual Machine as a Service offering spanning private data centers and AWS EC2 and various disaster recovery solutions that ensure RTO RPO driven recoverability against largescale risks such as ransomware attacks

Key Job Responsibilities and Duties

The core premise for the our Platform Engineer lies in designing building and maintaining internal platforms to provide developers with selfservice tools and automation for deploying and running software efficiently and reliably. We code our way out of problems where operations are concerned addressing availability scalability latency and efficiency challenges within the vast infrastructure here.

You will impact millions of people all over the globe with your creative solutions

You work in one of the biggest ecommerce companies in the world

You will solve exciting problems at scale by writing and deploying code across tens of thousands of servers

Ensuring an everything as code mindset for yourself and your team

You will have the opportunity to collaborate with many of the worlds leading SREs SWEs and Platform Engineers

You will be free to launch your own ideas and solutions within our sophisticated production environment

Here are some of the tools and technologies we use to achieve this Python Go Puppet Kubernetes Elasticsearch Prometheus HAProxy Cassandra Kafka etc

What youll be doing

Design develop and implement highly distributed large scale platforms that have a major impact on developers

Deliver a fully integrated endtoend developer focused engineering experience to make common things simple and complex things possible

Embed operational resilience and service reliability directly into the development lifecycle

Build effective monitoring to supervise the health of your system and jump in to handle outages

Build and run capacity tests to manage the growth of your systems

Embed Business Continuity and IT Disaster Recovery DR planning into the full engineering lifecycle

Embed security and privacy directly into service bootstrapping and delivery pipelines by automating controls and reducing manual decision points

Be an advocate of engineering standard processes

Share the oncall rotation and be an escalation contact for incidents

Contribute to oraganization growth through interviewing onboarding or other recruitment efforts

What youll bring

5-8 years of hands-on experience in software platform or site reliability engineering within the technology sector coupled with expertise in building operating and maintaining sophisticated and scalable systems

Solid experience in at least one programming language we use Go Python Java Ruby Perl

Experience with Infrastructure as Code technologies

Knowledge of cloud computing fundamentals

Solid foundation in Linux administration and troubleshooting

Understanding of Service level agreements and objectives

Additional experience in AWS solutions Kubernetes Networking Security or Storage is desirable

Supervising observability technologies like Prometheus Graphite Grafana Kibana Elasticsearch are a plus

Good interpersonal skills

Proficient command of the English language both written and spoken