Responsibilities

• Actively contribute to design & development Cloud Native applications leading a development team to build and run scalable applications in modern, dynamic environments such as public, private, and hybrid clouds.
• Build reusable robust software components, APIs, Microservices with a key focus on automation to containerise, deploy, monitor applications running in an orchestration engine like Kubernetes.
• Stay abreast of latest Cloud Native technologies and patterns and proactively find ways to apply them to the business problem.
• Build a deep understanding of Hexagon’s IoT based Cloud Systems covering domain, workflows, infrastructure, and processes and lead the team to further strengthen these systems.
• Work closely with stakeholders, other development teams, architects to better understand business requirements and help translate these into technical requirements for the development team.
• Self-starter who can think outside of the box, and come up with a solution to resolve and mitigate complex problems
• Consciously apply the best patterns & practices to build robust high quality software components
• Perform detailed analysis and design of assigned tasks and updates all appropriate documents (including design, analysis, and unit test documents) in a timely manner. Ensure completed modules provide all functionality described and meet performance guidelines
• Practice standard development process leveraging agile methodologies such as SCRUM and TDD
• Maintain existing software systems by identifying and correcting software defects.

Educational Qualifications

• B.Tech /M.Tech in Computer Science from a reputed institute.
• Nice to have certifications in one or more of the following:
• AWS/AZURE Administrator
• AWS/Azure Solution Architect
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator

Overview

As a Cloud Native Architect, you will help design solutions for divisions going through a technological as well as organisational transformation. Working in a small, you’ll guide our development groups through creating and automating their cloud infrastructure.

Skills Required

• Overall, 10+ years of software development experience with due focus on building robust distributed applications.
• At least 5 years of proven experience in building Cloud based systems targeting Public, Private & Hybrid Cloud environments.
• Proven skills as team lead, leading a development team providing needed oversight to day-to-day project activities.
• Should be well-versed with Cloud Native technologies/tools to build robust software components
• Proficiency in design & development of core platform components using Java backend technologies /tools like Core Java, Spring Boot, Hiberate etc..
• Proficiency in design & development of REST API, Microservices and well versed in containerization & automated deployment of the applications in a container platform.
• Should have hands-on experience with Kubernetes, IAC tools like Terraform, Terragrunt etc.. and application deployment tools like Helm to streamline the installation & management applications running in Kubernetes environment.
• Strong knowledge of troubleshooting applications hosted in a Kubernetes container platform and related tools for Cluster management, application deployment, Load balancing etc.
• Solid understanding of Public Cloud platforms like Azure /AWS from a development and operations perspective.
• Strong understanding of principles of DevOps and Continuous Delivery using tools like GitLab, Jenkins, ArgoCD etc..
• Proven skills observability tools like Prometheus, New Relic, Thanos, Grafana,  etc..
• Experience with service mesh like Istio, envoy, Nginx service mesh
• Proficiency in building core backend components using industry standard messaging frameworks like Kafka, RabbitMQ and authorization frameworks like OAuth,
• Possess a good understanding of networking & protocols (DNS, Firewalls, VPN, TCP/IP, Security, IP Routing, SSH, FTP, HTTP/HTTPS, DHCP etc).
• Working knowledge of Secure IoT operations for Cloud Auto-provisioning, Connectivity and Data Streaming etc.
• Strong understanding and experience of release engineering and continuous delivery process.
• Strong understanding of static code analysis, unit testing and Test-Driven Development, Security testing and automated test frameworks
• Strong verbal and written communications skills are a must.