Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

We, the Cloud Platform Engineering team at Calix are responsible for the Platforms, Tools, and CI/CD pipelines at Calix. Our mission is to enable Calix engineers to accelerate the delivery of world-class products while ensuring the high availability, reliability, security, and performance expected by our customers.

We are seeking Cloud Engineers with proven expertise in the design and building of large-scale Cloud Infrastructure Platforms to join our team and help us deliver the foundation on which Calix products can thrive. You will help us achieve our mission through innovative solutions.

Responsibilities:

• Design our infrastructure platform components to be highly available, scalable, reliable, and secure.
• Automate the entire lifecycle of platform components from provisioning through decommissioning.
• Ensure Observability is an integral part of the infrastructure platforms and provides adequate visibility about their health, utilization, and cost.
• Build Cloud native CI/CD pipelines, tools and automation that enables developer autonomy and improves their productivity.
• Build tools that predict saturations/failures and take preventive actions through automation.
• Collaborate extensively with cross functional teams to understand their requirements; educate them through documentation/training and improve the adoption of the platforms/tools.
• Provide technical leadership for your peers and help them deliver the best solutions to the rest of Calix.

Qualifications:

• 7+ years of experience in building large scale distributed systems in an always available production environment.
• 3+ years of experience in building Infrastructure Platforms and CI/CD pipelines in a major public cloud provide – AWS preferred; hands-on expertise in commonly used Cloud infrastructure/platforms services (e.g., EC2, S3/EBS/EFS, ELB/DNS/NAT/WAF, RDS/Aurora, IAM/KMS/SecretsManager, SNS/SQS, Elasticache, Lambda etc.)
• In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes and its ecosystem – Containerd/Docker, Helm/Plulumi, ServiceMesh, Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD/Workflow, Tekton, Keptn etc.
• Hand-on experience with observability platforms/tools like ELK/Fluentd/Fluenbit, Grafana/Prometheus/OpenTelemetry, Cortex/InfluxDB and Jaeger/Zipkin etc.
• Experience in Python, Golang or a similar language.
• Proven experience in leading major initiatives from requirements, design, and implementation to ongoing lifecycle management.
• Experience in coaching and mentoring junior engineers; strong verbal and written communications.
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or equivalent.

Location:

• This position is based in Bengaluru, India.