Staff Engineer, Infrastructure

What does a great Staff Engineer, Infrastructure do? The Staff Engineer, Infrastructure will expertly design and build large scale, distributed and highly fault tolerant systems to solve complex business problems and act as a Key contributor in developing the team’s technical strategic road map, partnering with the key stakeholders. Job Responsibilities: • Collaborate with partner teams to design, build and support microservice frameworks and orchestration. Evangelize the frameworks with Clover’s application development teams and bring adoption to the framework. • Work frequently with other teams to coordinate major changes to cross-system architectures, influencing upstream or downstream for the most efficient solutions • Scale systems sustainably through mechanisms like automation, and evolve systems by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity • Conduct blameless postmortems for incidents in the monoliths, and diligently follow through leanings and remediation. • Research and evaluate new technology products for pilot or proof of concept by technical teams. Bring a level of maturity around costs for scale into the evaluation at the POC as well as full scale use of a tool/technology. Basic Qualifications for Consideration: • Strong Computer Science fundamentals. • B.S.+ degree in Computer Science, or equivalent practical experience. • Strong Java coding, debugging and troubleshooting skills. • Experience working on a relational database (MySQL preferred). • Experience with algorithms, data structures, complexity analysis and software design. • A systematic problem-solving approach, coupled with strong communications skills and a sense of ownership and drive Preferred Qualifications for Consideration: • Previous experience working with • Microservice frameworks, decomposition and orchestration. • One of the leading Cloud provider technologies • Modern containerization technologies like Docker, Kubernetes • A total of 10yrs experience, with the following specific skills: • Linux Admin (CentOS): 7 years /Python: 7 years/ Puppet (or Chef): 7 years • MySQL / PostGreSQL Admin: 7 years • RDBMS / SQL / DDL / DML 7 years • Terraform: 6 years / Encryption/certs/security: 6 years • HAProxy: 6 years / Nginx: 6 years / TCP/IP: 6 years • Monitoring: TCollector/ DataDog/ Graphana: 5 years • YAML, XML: 5 years/ ELK Stack: 5 years • Git / Github / Gitlab Admin: 5 years • Bash, Shell, CL: 5 years / Java, JVM: 5 years • Ruby, Rake: 5 years /Yum: 5 years/ RPM: 5 years /Docker: 5 years • Kubernetes: 5 years /GCP,AWS: 5 years / DNS: 3 years • LDAP: 3 years /MQ Rabbit: 3 years /Redis: 3 years / Memcache: 3 years • C, C++, GNU Toolchains: 3 years / GNU Makefiles: 3 years • Wiki / Jira: 3 years