Software Development Engineer II Lead

NPG Consultants is seeking an experienced Software Development Engineer II to join our team. As a key member of our development team, you will be responsible for designing and implementing high-quality software solutions using Linux and Docker.

Responsibilities:

Maintain and enhance the SLA of ++.++% for offered services and managed platforms.
Design systems architecture for projects using Linux and Linux application stacks (Linux, Docker, Python, Golang, Postgres, Redis etc).
Proficient in capacity planning.
Design, implement and enhance CI and CD platforms.
Understand and automate solutions for permanently fixing outages/downtimes.
Responsible for architecting deployments for High availability, scalability and reliability.
Design and implement platforms for monitoring, log processing, metrics collection and data visualization.
Script and code automation tools (in shell/perl/ruby/python etc) for automation and efficient management of sites/products.
Infrastructure and platform security.
Ansible configuration management.
Liaise with application development teams to drive operational best practices.
Requirements:

You take pride in calling yourself expert/master in most of the below technologies/skills.
Minimum 3 years of relevant experience in most of the following:
Linux: In-depth Linux fundamentals, good understanding of various Linux kernel subsystems (memory, storage, network etc), understanding of various distributions nuances (Ubuntu/Fedora/Centos etc), package management etc.
Fundamentals: DNS & Networking Fundamentals, TCP/UDP, IP Routing, HA & Load Balancing Concepts.
Very good knowledge of container technology (Docker).
Good knowledge of nginx server.
Cloud Infrastructure: OpenStack.
Edge Cache - Redis.
Databases: Postgres.
Configuration management: Ansible.
Tools/Utilities: Jenkins, Zabbix, GIT/SVN.
Scripting/Programming: Extensive work done on two or more of these scripting/programming languages - Bash/PERL/Ruby/Python.
Others: Regular expressions, excellent troubleshooting skills.
Good To Have:

Some familiarity with IOT devices like raspberry pi.
Knowledge of message queue systems and MQTT protocol.
A deep knowledge of AWS Cloud services would be an added advantage.
Have previously worked in a Startup.
Desired Skills and Experience: Linux, Docker, Ansible, Nginx, Bash, Ruby, Python