Overview
What would you be doing/ Expected from this role?
- Be responsible for Platforms Team roadmap and engineering execution from conceptualization to delivery of current and next-generation tools & technologies.
- Manage release planning, execution, deployment of all tools maintained by Platforms Team, for running production and non-production environments without any performance, reliability issues.
- Provide technology thought leadership.
- Build and mentor high performance engineering teams.
- Work with the team to design, build and deliver software that keeps all user-facing services (most notably BigBasket.com) and many other big basket production systems running smoothly
- Work together with our Software Engineers to ensure reliability, availability and performance of our services.
- Automate our processes to stabilize our production and prevent problem recurrence.
- Influence and create new designs, architectures, standards and methods for large-scale distributed systems.
- Engage in service capacity planning and forecasting, software performance analysis and system tuning.
- Have in mind the big picture of how systems are related to each other and use a breadth of tools and approaches to solve a broad spectrum of problems.
- Practicing processes like limiting time spent on operational work, blameless postmortems and proactive identification of potential outages factor into iterative improvement.
- Be an advocate of automation principles, best practices and constantly improve on all engineering processes related to platform/cloud infrastructure.
Who are we looking for ?
- Experience designing, analyzing and troubleshooting large-scale distributed systems.
- Experience and understanding of Agile development concepts and Cloud environments, ideally from a development background.
- Ability to systematically approach problem-solving and take initiative with a sense of accountability.
- Experience with AWS Cloud Services, Containers.
- Bonus points with Linux, Networking & Cloud administration skills.
- Bonus points with proven experience on microservices.
- Excellent communication and interpersonal skills.