Lead Software Engineer – Kubernetes
Company | Appian |
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Location | McLean, VA, USA |
Salary | $Not Provided – $Not Provided |
Type | Full-Time |
Degrees | |
Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
Requirements
- Expertise in working with AWS or other cloud infrastructures like Azure or Google Cloud, and using Infrastructure-as-Code tools
- Expertise working in Kubernetes ecosystem (e.g. Cilium, Istio, Knative, Keda)
- Experience coaching junior engineers and driving projects to impact
- Fluency in reviewing architecture / designs from team members, identify problems, and make suggestions for better practices
- Familiarity with conducting code reviews looking out for the elegant approach, performance, maintainability, and security
- Familiarity with DevOps, Release Engineering and trends including CI/CD
- Familiarity with infrastructure as code (e.g. Terraform)
- Familiarity with networking and information security in the cloud (e.g. VPN, compliance, etc.)
- Focus on keeping automated infrastructure up-to-date as dependent technologies evolve and scale
- Interest in automating every aspect of our development lifecycle and help us in our mission to achieve continuous delivery
- Excellent spoken and written communication with both technical and non-technical people
- Ability to identify dependencies between multiple teams. Ability to communicate blockers and escalate as needed
- Familiarity with leading response for severe issues, minimizing pain for the customer, weighing trade-offs in the moment; communicating clearly and concisely to the customer about the problem and solution
Responsibilities
- Helping re-architect the platform on public clouds to allow for frequent, predictable and high impact changes
- Ensuring that our world-class infrastructure is always available, responsive, and capable of meeting the diverse needs of a dynamic and high-powered development team
- Working as part of an agile and global team to transform our architecture to a modern services architecture that makes it easy for feature teams to leverage microservices and containerization technologies
Preferred Qualifications
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No preferred qualifications provided.