# Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist

**Company**: GCIO
**Location**: Guangzhou, Guangdong
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Category**: IT
**Industry**: Technology

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## Description

We are currently seeking an experienced professional to join our team in the role of Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist.

Principal responsibilities:

- Design architecture for private cloud solutions and integrate with ecosystem

- Provide end-to-end platform engineering and lifecycle management on Internal Kubernetes Platform

- Develop tools and automation to manage platform infrastructure and services lifecycle

- Improve reliability, quality, and time to upgrade cluster and service versions

- Measure and optimise system performance and resource utilisation, and plan for future capacity

- Build dashboards and visualisations to provide transparency of platform status

- Define system alerts and automate responses where possible

- Provide operational support and engineering for multiple software development teams

- Gather and analyse metrics from cluster components and services to assist in performance tuning and fault finding

- Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning

- Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts

- Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service level objectives

Requirements:

- Experience of architecture design of large-scale distributed systems and cloud-native systems

- Administrative knowledge with practical hands-on of container and Kubernetes platforms engineering and management

- Core competencies: Linux OS, Container, Kubernetes and K8S native systems like Istio, engineering skillset to manage infrastructure as code

- Ability to script in one or more shell languages, such as Bash or PowerShell

- Ability to program (structured and OO) with one or more high-level languages, such as Python or Golang

- Experience with infrastructure support and operation automation following software lifecycle practice

- A proactive approach to spotting problems, areas for improvement, and performance bottlenecks

- Accept flexible working hours

- Good written and reading skills in English

## Skills

### Required
- Linux OS
- Container
- Kubernetes
- Istio
- Bash
- PowerShell
- Python
- Golang

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