Sr. Solutions Architect

Nasscomm; Oakland (CA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company in California is seeking a DevOps Toolchain Architect who excels at coaching teams and resolving configuration issues. The ideal candidate has over 8 years of experience and is proficient in Continuous Delivery practices. Responsibilities include maintaining software quality, automating infrastructure, and leading cross-functional DevOps teams. A strong understanding of software engineering and cloud APIs is essential. Join us to help brilliant companies build awesome software, contributing to delivery and maintenance excellence.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience.
• Passionate about software engineering and still hands-on.
• Ability to lead DevOps teams towards self-organization.

Responsibilities

• Coach teams to better analyze and resolve configuration issues.
• Build and maintain high-quality software systems.
• Automate processes to improve efficiency across teams.

Skills

Software engineering

Continuous Delivery

Leadership

Cloud APIs

Programming (Java, Ruby, Python, Perl)

Infrastructure automation

Tools

Puppet

Chef

Ansible

Jenkins/Hudson

Git

Subversion

Job description

As a DevOps Toolchain Architect, you are skilled at coaching teams and leading by example to better analyze and resolve software configuration and installation issues to maintain product integrity and overall rollout of software. Helping the important companies learn to build awesome every day, themselves, is what you do.

Qualifications

• Minimum of 8 years of relevant work experience
• You’re passionate about the craft of software engineering
• You’re still hands‑on with building modern bits using CD/CI and toolchains
• You can be a driver or a navigator, and know when to be each
• You get Continuous Delivery and know the difference from CI
• You work well within and across teams to deliver high-quality software
• You are a proven team leader, and know how to evolve cross functional DevOps teams to self‑organization
• You have a background in software design patterns
• You are a LINUX, LAMP…and .NET aficionado who knows what system administrators, QA and developers need to be able to do to get their jobs done. But you’re not religious about stacks
• You love working in cloud APIs, i.e. AWS, Azure, vSphere/vCloud, OpenStack
• You have built bridges of automation between Ops and Developers to the amazement and delight of onlookers
• You are no stranger to distributed systems and messaging
• You can articulate and debate software architectural decisions and the resulting tradeoffs across cost, performance, reliability, and other factors.
• You have experience building software in a high‑level programming language
• You have familiarity with build automation tools, including but not limited to autoconf, automake, make, cmake, lein, grunt, rake, ant
• You are familiar with Distributed and Centralized Version Control, issue trackers, mailing lists, IRC and the other common tools among open‑source users and developers
• You believe that the only way to go fast is to go well and regularly consider performance and portability issues, can recognize when refactoring is necessary, and generally care about the details of the craft
• You understand how great software is designed, built, delivered, and maintained, and care passionately about delivering an excellent user experience
• You use logic and reasoning to identify the strengths and weaknesses of alternative solutions, conclusions or approaches to problems
• You get Continuous Delivery and know that we live on main branch. You’ve read the book
• You can have contact with others (face‑to‑face, by telephone, virtual meetings, VOIP or otherwise) and the ability to work and interact in a distributed group or team
• Programming skills (Java, Ruby, Python, Perl, etc.)
• Large scale infrastructure automation experience
• Experience with Puppet, Chef, Ansible or other configuration management tools
• Experience with Jenkin/Hudson or other CI tools
• Experience working with version control/repos, i.e. Git, Subversion, Artifactory or Nexus
• Experience with test driven development, testing tools and frameworks like JUnit
• Knowledge of data center management, systems management, and monitoring, networking & security
• Professional services experience in an open source/enterprise software company, and you appreciate organizational complexities, being able to navigate through to solutions
• Experience in automating: LAMP stacks, Microsoft stacks, WebSphere, WebLogic

Additional Information

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