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Senior Software Engineer

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Design and implement container management solutions, modernize infrastructure with cloud-native technologies, support engineering teams, and evaluate new technologies at Acquia.
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Acquia empowers the world’s most ambitious brands to create digital customer experiences that matter. With open source Drupal at its core, the Acquia Digital Experience Platform (DXP) enables marketers, developers, and IT operations teams at thousands of global organizations to rapidly compose and deploy digital products and services that engage customers, enhance conversions, and help businesses stand out.

Headquartered in Boston, MA, Acquia is a Great Place to Work-CertifiedTM company, is listed as one of the world’s top software companies by The Software Report, and is positioned as a market leader by the analyst community. We are Acquia. We are building for the future and we want you to be a part of it! 

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Our recruitment process is designed to empower you in making the most informed decisions. Acquia is committed to providing an inclusive, transparent, efficient, and educational interview experience that cultivates exploration into career opportunities at Acquia

You will discover the opportunity to grow your career here and learn from a global team that empowers you to exceed boundaries and achieve the extraordinary.

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, and Golang 
  • 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 (Edge, Data, etc.)
  • 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. 

Requirements:

  • 3-4 years of experience in design and Software Development Background and over 1 years of experience in working with Containers and Cloud-Native Development 
  • Experience in developing applications using Golang
  • Experience with Kubernetes/Swarm architecture with hands-on production experience with container technologies and the tools and challenges around them 
  • Experience with object oriented programming and Software design patterns
  • Experience 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 
  • Knowledge of configuration management tools such as Ansible, Terraform, Puppet and Cloudformation 
  • Experience operating with TCP/IP, load balancing, security and operating production environments
  • Experience with distributed System Management/tracking and monitoring such as ELK Stack, Prometheus
  • Strong oral and written communication skills 
  • Strong team collaboration skills 
  • Familiarity with Agile processes (Kanban, Scrum, etc.) 

Good to have: Experience working with 

  • Operator-SDK/Kubebuilder/Metacontroller
  • Kubernetes controller development

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

We are an organization that embraces innovation and the potential of AI to enhance our processes and improve our work. We are always looking for individuals who are open to learning new technologies and collaborating with AI tools to achieve our goals.

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! 

Acquia is an equal opportunity (EEO) employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, protected veterans status or any other protected status or characteristic under federal, state or local law unrelated to the ability to perform the job.

Interested residents of Colorado may contact [email protected] as it relates to regulation C.R.S. § 8-5-201. Information regarding benefits are linked here.

Top Skills

Ansible
AWS
CloudFormation
Docker
Elk Stack
Go
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Prometheus
Puppet
Terraform

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