Software Engineer (Observability Platform Engineer)

Job Title: Software Engineer (Observability Platform Engineer)

Job Location: Pleasanton, CA 94588

Job Type: Contract

Duration: 6 Months

Work Type: Hybrid

Pay Rate: $60-70/ Hourly/ W2

Overview:

TekWissen is a global workforce management provider headquartered in Ann Arbor, Michigan that offers strategic talent solutions to our clients world-wide. Client is an American on‑demand financial management, human capital management, and student information system software vendor.

Job Description:

• The Data Platform and Observability (DPOE) team enables insight into the operation and performance of Client's increasingly sophisticated computing infrastructure and application environment.
• Our large-scale distributed data platform digests hundreds of terabytes of structured and unstructured data in the form of billions of messages produced daily by Client applications and infrastructure services.
• We develop software and fully coordinate solutions for the entire data pipeline from data collection to visualization and reporting.
• If you enjoy writing efficient software, crafting innovative capabilities by integrating the latest cloud-native technologies, and tuning and scaling large distributed systems, you will enjoy working with us!
• Observability Platform Engineering (PPE) team deploys and operates Observability cloud infrastructure (Kubernetes, CI/CD tooling, networking, security) for the DPOE observability teams.
• Additional engineers are needed to handle the transition to full availability of all Observability services and the now-growing scalability and performance challenges.
• PPE team is a modern full-service DevOps team responsible for the development, creation, and operation of Client Observability Services (Metrics, Logs, Traces, Stats & other Services).
• As a DPOE team member and specialist in Cloud Platform Engineering, you will play a key role in developing the agile automation that underpins and enables our next-generation observability platform.
• As the common cloud platform infrastructure team, we own everything from virtualized compute and storage to critical infrastructure observability to governance to CI/CD.

You will:

• Collaborate with the security and networking teams to configure and deploy defense-in-depth security controls and highly performant networking infrastructure.
• Develop an architecture, configuration standards, and automation to enable low-risk agile service deployment by all DPOE teams.
• Create infrastructure monitoring and tooling for platform performance tuning and debugging.
• Drive problems impacting critical systems to solution and implement automation to prevent reoccurrence.
• Participate in the on-call rotation to support DPOE critical systems.
• Research, evaluate, and develop new open source and cloud native tools and technologies as needed to meet new requirements.

Basic Qualifications:

• 3 years of software engineering experience using one or more of the following: Java, Python, Golang.
• 3 years of AWS public cloud engineering DevOps experience with extensive expertise in networking and security architecture, configuration, and deployment
• 3 years of Design, Build & Maintain large scale Kubernetes clusters
• 3 years with container orchestration platforms like - EKS/ECS/GKE etc
• 3 years hands on experience with Terraform and/or Ansible and/or Pulumi and/or other IaC technologies.
• 3 years in Cloud native Open Source tools
• 3 years of Hands-on experience with ArgoCD for continuous deployment and orchestration

Other Qualifications:

• Expertise in TCP/IP protocol debugging, IP routing configuration, and firewall/proxy/load balancer configuration
• Deep knowledge in the configuration of security services such as key management systems, AWS IAM policies, Kerberos, and LDAP/AD integration
• Experience with public cloud provider technology stacks at scale, especially VM provisioning, Kubernetes, data storage, and stream processing services
• Distributed system performance analysis and optimization experience
• Development experience with a wide range of programming languages, for example, Java, Python, Golang, etc.
• Experience learning complex open-source service internals via code inspection.
• Experience with modern software development tools including CI/CD and methodologies like Agile.
• Experience with Linux system internals and tuning.
• Strong written and oral communication skills and the ability to explain esoteric technical details clearly to engineers without a similar background.

TekWissen® Group is an equal opportunity employer supporting workforce diversity.