Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - Periscope

Overview

Driving lasting impact and building long-term capabilities with our clients is not easy work. You are the kind of person who thrives in a high performance/high reward culture - doing hard things, picking yourself up when you stumble, and having the resilience to try another way forward.

In return for your drive, determination, and curiosity, we'll provide the resources, mentorship, and opportunities you need to become a stronger leader faster than you ever thought possible. Your colleagues—at all levels—will invest deeply in your development, just as much as they invest in delivering exceptional results for clients. Every day, you'll receive apprenticeship, coaching, and exposure that will accelerate your growth in ways you won’t find anywhere else.

When you join us, you will have:

• Continuous learning: Our learning and apprenticeship culture, backed by structured programs, is all about helping you grow while creating an environment where feedback is clear, actionable, and focused on your development. The real magic happens when you take the input from others to heart and embrace the fast-paced learning experience, owning your journey.
• A voice that matters: From day one, we value your ideas and contributions. You’ll make a tangible impact by offering innovative ideas and practical solutions. We not only encourage diverse perspectives, but they are critical in driving us toward the best possible outcomes.
• Global community: With colleagues across 65+ countries and over 100 different nationalities, our firm’s diversity fuels creativity and helps us come up with the best solutions for our clients. Plus, you’ll have the opportunity to learn from exceptional colleagues with diverse backgrounds and experiences.
• World-class benefits: On top of a competitive salary (based on your location, experience, and skills), we provide a comprehensive benefits package to enable holistic well-being for you and your family.
  
  

You will be a core member of Periscope’s technology team with responsibilities that range from developing and deploying our core enterprise products to ensuring that McKinsey’s craft stays on the leading edge of technology.

In this role, you will be involved in software development projects in a hands-on manner. You will spend about 80% of your time building and improving our deployment scripts and toolsets for cloud-based solutions on AWS and Azure platforms. Your expertise will expand into database management, Kubernetes cluster setup and monitoring, performance tuning, and continuous delivery domains over time.

You will be an active learner, tinkering with new open-source libraries, using unfamiliar technologies without supervision, and learning frameworks and approaches. You will also have a strong understanding of key agile engineering practices to guide teams on improvement opportunities in their engineering practices. You will also provide ongoing coaching and mentoring to the other DevOps engineers to improve our organizational capability.

You will be based in our Bengaluru or Gurugram office as a member of Periscope’s technology team.

Periscope is the asset-based arm of McKinsey’s Marketing & Sales practice and is at the leading edge of the new ways we serve clients. This integrated model of serving clients, i.e. combining our generalist consulting approaches with the solutions, is proof of the firm’s commitment to continuous innovation in the spirit of bringing the best of the firm to our clients.

Periscope® By McKinsey enables better commercial decisions by uncovering actionable insights. The Periscope platform combines world leading intellectual property, prescriptive analytics, and cloud-based tools to provide more than 25 solutions focused on insights and marketing, with expert support and training. It is a unique combination that drives revenue growth both now and in the future. Customer experience, performance, pricing, category, and sales optimization are powered by the Periscope platform. Periscope has a presence in 26 locations across 16 countries with a team of 600+ business and IT professionals and a network of 300+ experts. To learn more about how Periscope’s solutions and experts are helping businesses continually drive better performance, visit their site.

Your Qualifications and Skills

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or equivalent area
• 6+ years of experience in technology solutions preferably working with microservice architectures focusing on SaaS delivery models
• Demonstrate extensive experience working with leading Cloud Providers, particularly AWS and Azure
• Very strong in Linux systems and a wide range of DevOps tools, including Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Docker, Kubernetes, and ArgoCD
• Production grade experience and knowledge of load balancing, network security, standard network protocols (HTTP/s, DNS, etc.)
• Experience in supporting web front-end and data-intensive applications, including Ingress traffic, REST APIs, Postgres, and ETL workloads
• Leverage your programming skills in Python or Golang to contribute to development tasks and enhance system functionality
• Exceptional troubleshooting and debugging skills, effectively resolving complex issues to ensure uninterrupted system operation
• Strong experience in automation ensuring to uphold system quality attributes such as performance, scalability, availability, fault-tolerance, security, deployment, and maintainability
• Exposure to modern monitoring, alerting, and logging tools: Elastic, NewRelic, Dynatrace
• Ability to collaborate in an inclusive team environment, where listening, communication, evaluation, and prioritization thrive even in high-pressure, mission-critical situations
• Strong communication skills to effectively convey technical constraints and decisions, fostering alignment and collaboration across all levels