Associate Director, Software Engineering Specialist

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