Software System Principal Engineer

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, Argo, Continuous Integration & Continuous Delivery - CI/CD, DevOps, Docker, IaaS, Jenkins, Kubernetes-K8s, Machine learning techniques, PaaS, Python Programming, Red Hat OpenShift, SaaS

Job Description

What you’ll achieve

The TechOps organization plays a fundamental role in delivering IaaS/PAAS/SAAS for the ISG Development teams. We accelerate the pace of development to meet their needs by ensuring all critical systems are running 24x7 in support of Engineering Development while at the same time driving division wide Transformation Initiatives to modernize Engineering Operations across multiple lines of business.

You will:

• Be responsible for the sustainment and maintenance of our core Kubernetes (K8s) infrastructure platforms orchestrated via OpenShift, Rancher & Tanzu to appropriate standards and best practices in a fast-paced work environment.
• Be a technical lead for Kubernetes as a Service offering for the internal customers in assisting the requirements for On Demand K8s Cluster on On-prem cloud (OpenShift, VMware Tanzu & Rancher) with its different phases providing expert guidance.
• Responsible for Implementing GitOps principle to centralize the enterprise-wide cluster provisioning/automation and day 2 life cycle management using K8s native CI/CD tools like ArgoCD, Jenkins.
• Ensure the necessary security procedures are implemented and enforced across their work, Patch management while assisting in documentation of project requirements, statements of work, and service descriptions, and ensure backup and recovery for critical assets to include Disaster Recovery Plan.
• Provide Linux system administration on physical and virtual servers to include installation and maintaining the hardware, software, and applications, as well as troubleshoot, diagnose, and resolve problems with any Kubernetes objects like deployments, pods, namespaces, replication controllers, daemon sets, schedulers etc.

Take the first step towards your dream career

Every Dell Technologies team member brings something unique to the table. Here’s what we are looking for with this role:

Essential Requirements

• 8-12 years of experience with cloud-native architectures, services-based architecture, container-based solutions development, delivery, and operations as deployed for a variety of environments and use cases with a Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• Expert working knowledge in OpenShift, VMware Tanzu Kubernetes (K8s) Grid Services, Working knowledge of ACM, ACS, Tanzu application services, and Rancher with a strong background in VMWare virtualization, networking/SAN, security, containerization technologies, automation, and high-value Artificial Intelligence / Machine Learning (AI/ML) workloads like Codeium and Copilot
• Hands on experience with designing, developing, and delivering global-scale platforms for Software-defined data centre, container technologies in the industry (Docker, containerd, postman, Kubernetes, NSX-T, Calico, OVN, etc), Argo/Argoevents, DevOps practices, and CI/CD tools.
• Experience with DevOps, including continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) for container workloads using Jenkins or ArgoCD, as well as programming/scripting experience with Yaml, Python, Shell; configuration management/orchestration tools, Ansible automation platform/AWX.
• Understanding of Infrastructure, Network & Application monitoring. Hands on experience with Ingress Controllers like NGINX / HAProxy software load-balancer, ALB ingress controllers. Work experience on PPDM backup tool, Velero, MiniIO.

Desirable Requirements

• RedHat OpenShift Certifications & Kubernetes certifications like CKA, CKD or CKS are plus
• Experience using ServiceNow, Jira, Infoblox