Software Engineer III- Eng

Ukg-6; Dadri; On-site; INR 1,500,000 - 2,200,000; Full time

Job summary

UKG in Noida, India is seeking a Software Engineer III- Eng to design, develop, and operate networked infrastructure services using IaC and cloud-native tools. You will write clean code, lead initiatives, review peers, and automate tests with Terraform, Ansible, Python, and Golang, while ensuring reliability and observability.

This role requires 5–7+ years of experience and strong collaboration across teams.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field.
• 5+ years of software and IaC development experience.
• Strong programming in Python, Terraform, and Ansible.
• Experience with GitHub and Jira or similar tools.
• Experience with cloud platforms (AWS/Azure/GCP) and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Software Development: write clean, maintainable code for applications and systems.
• Technical Leadership: contribute to design, development and deployment of infrastructure apps with high quality.
• Project Management: lead features/projects, set objectives and deadlines.
• Architectural Design: participate in design reviews for scalable cloud network features.
• Code Review: review peers' code to ensure quality and standards.
• Testing: define and automate tests for IaC using Terraform, Ansible, Python, Golang, Helm.
• Service Health and Quality: monitor cloud network services, investigate incidents and improve reliability.
• Documentation: document features and fixes; contribute to training materials.
• Leadership: take the lead on projects and ensure timely delivery with quality.
• On-call: participate in on-call rotations.

Skills

Python

Terraform

Ansible

GitHub

CI/CD

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or Engineering

Tools

Golang

Jinja

Helm

Terraform

Job description

Job description Company and benefitsJob IDSOFTW020282Employment TypeRegularWork Styleon-siteLocationNoida,UP,IndiaTravelUp to 25%RoleSoftware Engineer III- EngWhy UKG:At UKG, the work you do matters. The code you ship, the decisions you make, and the care you show a customer all add up to real impact. Today, tens of millions of workers start and end their days with our workforce operating platform. Helping people get paid, grow in their careers, and shape the future of their industries. That’s what we do.We never stop learning. We never stop challenging the norm. We push for better, and we celebrate the wins along the way. Here, you’ll get flexibility that’s real, benefits you can count on, and a team that succeeds together. Because at UKG, your work matters—and so do you.About the team:We are seeking engineers with diverse specialties and skills to join our dynamic team to innovate and solve complex challenges. This is a Staff Software Engineer - Network role is responsible for developing, automating, and scaling network and infrastructure services using software engineering and infrastructure-as-code. This individual should have a software engineering mindset and leverage code and AI tooling to design, develop, deploy, manage and support services via pipelines. Our team is looking for strong talent with expertise in the following areas:Responsibilities:• Software Development: Write clean, maintainable, and efficient code or various software applications and systems.• Technical Leadership: Contribute to the design, development, and deployment of complex Infrastructure applications and systems, ensuring they meet high standards of quality and performance. Identifies opportunities to advocate for efficient process change and improvements.• Project Management: Voluntarily takes the lead in a project, Manage execution and delivery of features and projects, Sets and communicates project objectives, negotiating project priorities and deadlines, ensuring successful and timely completion, with quality.• Architectural Design: Participate in design reviews with peers and stakeholders and in the architectural design of new features in Google cloud and its network systems, ensuring scalability, reliability, and maintainability.• Code Review: Diligent about reviewing code developed by other developers, provide feedback and maintain a high bar of technical excellence to ensure code is adhering to industry standard best practices like coding guidelines, elegant, efficient and maintainable code, with observability built from ground up, unit tests etc.• Testing: Build testable IaC ( Infrastructure as code) define tests, participate in the testing process, automate tests using, tools like Terraform, Ansible, Python, Golang, Jinja, Helm and Design Patterns leveraging the test automation as the guide.• Service Health and Quality: Maintain the health and quality of Cloud Network infrastructure services and incidents, proactively identifying and resolving issues. Utilize service health indicators and telemetry for action providing recommendations to optimize performance. Conduct thorough root cause analysis and drive the implementation of measures to prevent future recurrences.• Documentation: Properly document new features, enhancements or fixes to the product, contributing to training materials in Confluence, Sharepoint, Github repo.• Leadership capabilities: Takes the lead in projects, Manage execution and delivery of features and projects, sets and communicates objectives, commits (and delivers) on priorities and deadlines, ensuring successful and timely completion, with quality.• On-call support: Rotation On-Call duty for incidents.Basic Qualifications:• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.• 5-7+ years of professional software and IaC development experience.• Deep expertise in one or more programming languages such as Python, Terraform, Ansible and GitHub.• Extensive experience with software development practices and design patterns.• Proficiency with version control systems like GitHub and bug/work tracking systems like JIRA.• Any Public Cloud Certification.• Proven 2+ years recent experience triaging cases that come from incidents or product defects in public cloud platforms.Preferred Qualifications:• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work effectively in a collaborative team environment.• Experience with cloud platforms like Azure, AWS, or GCP.• Experience in both private and public cloud infrastructure.• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and automation tools.• Experience with test automation frameworks and tools.• Knowledge of agile development methodologies.• Strong skills in problem solving and leading a multi-disciplinary room.Company Overview:UKG is the Workforce Operating Platform that puts workforce understanding to work. With the world's largest collection of workforce insights, and people-first AI, our ability to reveal unseen ways to build trust, amplify productivity, and empower talent, is unmatched. It's this expertise that equips our customers with the intelligence to solve any challenge in any industry — because great organizations know their workforce is their competitive edge. Learn more at ukg.com.UKG is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and is committed to promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace, including the recruitment process.Disability Accommodation in the Application and Interview ProcessFor individuals with disabilities that need additional assistance at any point in the application and interview process, please email [e-mail] ON HIRING SCAMSUKG will never ask you for a copy of your driver’s license, social security card, or passport during a job interABOUT OUR JOB DESCRIPTIONSAll job descriptions are written to accurately reflect the open job and include general work responsibilities. They do not present a comprehensive, detailed inventory of all duties, responsibilities, and qualifications required for the job. Management reserves the right to revise the job or require that other or different tasks be performed if or when circumstances change.