Cloud Lead

HARMAN International; Bloemfontein; On-site; ZAR 600,000 - 800,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology solutions provider in Bloemfontein is seeking a Software lead (Developer Experience) to drive Kubernetes initiatives. This role emphasizes customer-centric solutions, collaboration across teams, and project ownership. The ideal candidate has a strong background in Golang and Python, with extensive experience in cloud technologies and ownership of innovative projects. Competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits package are offered.

Benefits

Medical Check-up

Group Life and Medical Insurance

Pension

Annual leave

Mobile phone usage

Team meal

Qualifications

• Minimum 6 years of engineering experience.
• Experience running Kubernetes workloads on various clouds.
• Basic project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Manage tasks and timelines effectively.
• Drive innovation and propose creative solutions.
• Participate in cloud initiatives utilizing Kubernetes.

Skills

Golang knowledge

Python experience

Kubernetes workloads

Customer focus

Teamwork

Leadership

Terraform and Infrastructure as Code

Linux Administration

Communication skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering

Tools

Jenkins

Ansible

GitHub actions

Hashicorp Vault

Job description

Introduction

HARMAN’s engineers and designers are creative, purposeful and agile. As part of this team, you’ll combine your technical expertise with innovative ideas to help drive cutting-edge solutions in the car, enterprise and connected ecosystem. Every day, you will push the boundaries of creative design, and HARMAN is committed to providing you with the opportunities, innovative technologies and resources to build a successful career. A Career at HARMAN: As a technology leader that is rapidly on the move, HARMAN is filled with people who are focused on making life better. Innovation, inclusivity and teamwork are a part of our DNA. When you add that to the challenges we take on and solve together, you’ll discover that at HARMAN you can grow, make a difference and be proud of the work you do everyday.

Introduction: A Career at HARMAN Digital Transformation Solutions (DTS)

We’re a global, multi-disciplinary team that’s putting the innovative power of technology to work and transforming tomorrow. At HARMAN DTS, you solve challenges by creating innovative solutions.

• Combine the physical and digital, making technology a more dynamic force to solve challenges and serve humanity’s needs
• Work at the convergence of cross channel UX, cloud, insightful data, IoT and mobility
• Empower companies to create new digital business models, enter new markets, and improve customer experiences

Customer powers the global cloud infrastructure and developer platform providing back-end services for Samsung\'s billions of devices. Customer\'s data center footprint is within 100ms latency to 70% of the world\'s population, while our multi-cloud, Kubernetes-based developer platform extends our reach to additional resource regions. We\'re operating at hyperscale to power workloads that bring capability and delight to Samsung\'s employees and customers.

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• 홈페이지: https://info.services.harman.com/korea.html
• 매출액: 약 381억 원
• 직원 수: 약 261명 (한국 기준)
• 위치: 분당 야탑역(수인분당선 야탑역 1번 출구)

About the Role

Client powers the global cloud infrastructure and developer platform providing back-end services for Samsung\'s billions of devices. Client\'s data center footprint is within 100ms latency to 70% of the world\'s population, while our multi-cloud, Kubernetes-based developer platform extends our reach to additional resource regions. We\'re operating at hyperscale to power workloads that bring capability and delight to Samsung\'s employees and customers.

What You Will Do

Our team is experiencing great growth, and we need a Software lead (Developer Experience) to help with the new initiatives. This position is heavily utilizing Kubernetes technologies and will be focused on working with newer technologies and solving problems related to CICD.

You will participate in Samsung’s cloud initiatives to utilize Kubernetes.

What You Need to Be Successful

• Skills & Competencies Developer experience with Golang and python or similar programming languages.
• Designing Micro Architecture experience.
• Customer focus - Understand and prioritize customer needs, striving to exceed expectations in every interaction. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure the delivery of customer-centric solutions.
• Teamwork - Embrace a collaborative and inclusive approach, working seamlessly with colleagues to achieve common goals.
• Leadership - Lead individuals during team building.
• Experience running Kubernetes workloads on various clouds including AWS, GCP and Azure.
• Experience with custom integrations such as slack, bots, Jira or any other tooling that may be required.
• Familiarity with GitOps and utilizing GitHub action runners (and knowledge on self-hosted runners) particularly for Kubernetes related workloads.
• Understanding of cicd pipeline concepts. (Jenkins knowledge is also helpful)
• Experience with security with tools such as Hashicorp Vault and understanding of security policies on various cloud providers.
• Experience with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code methodologies.
• Understanding of Linux Administration. (rocky/centos/rhel and ubuntu)
• Experience with making cloud-init based images and automation of software installation on Linux.
• Familiar with configuration management tools. (Ansible preferred)
• Able to communicate effectively with members of the team in different time zones.
• Ability to analyze complex problems and come up with effective solutions in a cloud context.
• Able to communicate effectively with members of the team in different time zones and cross-functionals teams including DevOps, architects, and business stakeholders.
• Basic project management skills to manage tasks, timelines, and priorities effectively.
• The ability to analyze data and metrics to make data-driven decisions for optimizing cloud resources and performance.
• Ownership -Take ownership of projects, ensuring excellence in execution and accountability for results. Foster a sense of responsibility and pride in delivering high-quality work.
• Innovation - Drive innovation by proposing and implementing creative solutions to challenges. Stay abreast of industry trends and technologies, bringing fresh ideas to the table.

Bonus Points if You Have

• Bilingual in English and Korean

What Makes You Eligible

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, or any related discipline.
• Minimum of 6 years of industry experience in engineering

What We Offer (This is subject to change)

• Medical Check-up (for employee and one dependent)
• Group Life and Medical Insurance
• Pension
• Annual leave, Congratulatory & condolences leave
• Mobile phone usage
• HARMAN Welcome Kit
• Be-Brilliant
• Team meal
• Late commute and late meal allowance
• Breakfast service
• Benefit point (SK Benepia)
• Samsung Mall to purchase Samsung and HARMAN products
• Holiday voucher for Lunar New Year and Chuseok
• Exclusive employee discounts and promotions at our partner global chain hotels

HARMAN is proud to be an Equal Opportunity / Affirmative Action employer . All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or other applicable legally protected characteristics.