Acquia
Software Engineer
Job Summary
This role involves designing and implementing infrastructure solutions using Kubernetes and Cloud-Native Technologies, with a focus on container management and microservices architectures. The candidate should have experience with programming languages like Go, Python, and PHP, and be proficient in Kubernetes, Docker, and AWS services such as EC2, EKS, and VPC. Responsibilities include supporting application development, debugging complex systems, evaluating new technologies, and ensuring system availability, performance, and security. The position emphasizes collaboration, agility, and continuous improvement within a dynamic technical environment.
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Job Description
Acquia NGC Web Team - Software Engineer
Department: Engineering
Location: Remote, Costa Rica
Acquia is the open-source digital experience company. We provide the world's most ambitious brands with technology (built around Drupal) that allows them to embrace innovation and create customer moments that matter. At Acquia, we believe in the power of community and collaboration - giving our customers the freedom to build tomorrow on their terms.
Headquartered in the U.S., we have been named as one of North America’s fastest-growing software companies as reported by Deloitte and Inc. Magazine, and have been rated a leader by the analyst community and named one of the Best Places to Work by the Boston Business Journal. We are Acquia. We are building for the future of the web, and we want you to be a part of it.
Acquia runs one of the world's largest Platform as a Service (PaaS) offerings. Our Drupal optimized cloud runs on over 18,000 AWS instances and delivers billions of page views per month, running some of the largest and most mission-critical websites in the world. We are seeking exceptional professionals who desire to deliver world-class performance and reliability while building powerful tools that enable our customers effortlessly to scale their web applications. At Acquia, we are obsessive about providing our customers with security, availability, and scalability that is second to none and are looking for engineers who are equally passionate.
Acquia’s products run 100% on Amazon Web Services using EC2, EKS, CloudFormation, and various other technologies and best practices. Since each product is built and maintained by its own engineering team, the ideal candidate for this position would need to be proactive in familiarizing themselves with those services and have the ability to coordinate and collaborate with multiple teams.
Job Responsibilities:
- Participate in designing and implementing solutions for modernizing Acquia infrastructure and drive adoption of Kubernetes and Cloud-Native Technologies
- Design and implement end-to-end container management solution with Kubernetes, Docker
- Design and develop Go based Kubernetes operators using the kube-builder SDK
- Set up Kubernetes as a platform with enterprise-level reliability, availability, scalability and performance requirements
- Support engineering teams to design and implement application prototypes, using modern application development practices and open source emerging technologies, covering domains like microservices, API management, web-scale architectures
- Debug technical issues inside a very deep and complex technical stack involving containers, microservices, AWS services across the different layers of a web stack including TLS management, Service Mesh, Secrets Management and VPN technologies
- Contribute as part of a larger team to maintain a deep understanding of system functionality and architecture, with a primary focus on the operational aspects of the service (availability, performance, change management, emergency response, capacity planning, etc)
- Evaluate new technologies and provide a recommendation to management including planning and execution of proof of concept activities.
Requirement:
- 3+ years of experience in design and Software Development Background and over 1-2 years of experience in working with Containers and Cloud-Native Development
- Proficient with Kubernetes/Swarm architecture with hands-on production experience with container technologies and the tools and challenges around them
- Experience in developing applications using programming languages such as Go, Python, PHP, Ruby and shell scripting
- Proficient with object oriented programming and Software design patterns
- Proficient with service discovery, networking in Kubernetes or equivalent, monitoring, logging, scheduling
- Experience in container architecture, docker engine, runtime, container orchestration, and microservice patterns
- Experience working with AWS services such as - EC2, EBS, ALB, ECS, EKS, VPC, S3
- Knowledge of CI/CD tools like Jenkins (preferred), Bamboo, Gitlab
- Experience working with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet and Cloudformation
- Experience operating with TCP/IP, load balancing, security and operating production environments
- Strong Knowledge on the network layers, varnish and nginx
- Experience with distributed System Management/tracking and monitoring such as ELK Stack, Prometheus
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Strong team collaboration and leadership skills
- Familiarity with Agile processes (Kanban, Scrum, etc.)
Good to have:
- Networking experience (configuring TLS Certificates, reverse-proxies, subnetting, L4/L7 load-balancing configuration)
- Linux administration (troubleshooting workloads in a linux-based hosting environment, bonus in Kubernetes)
- PHP, Ruby, Golang or any C-based programming experience
- Helm chart development and Kustomize development for deploying Kubernetes workloads
- Hands-on experience working with metrics and creating dashboards (Prometheus/Sumologic/Splunk etc)
- Hands-on experience configuring and deploying nginx and/or nginx-ingress-controller as reverse proxy
- Strong understanding of L.A.M.P. stack hosting model
Qualifications:
- BS in Computer Science (preferred), or a comparable field of study, or equivalent practical experience
- Certification in AWS would be a plus
- CKA Professional certification would be plus
Acquia is proud to provide best-in-class benefits to help our employees and their families maintain a healthy body and mind. Core Benefits include: competitive healthcare coverage, wellness programs, take it when you need it time off, parental leave, recognition programs, and much more!
Individuals seeking employment at Acquia are considered without regard to race, color, religion, caste, creed, national origin, age, sex, marital status, ancestry, physical or mental disability, veteran status, gender identity, or sexual orientation. Whatever you answer will not be considered in the hiring process or thereafter.
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