Senior Staff Engineer – Performance and Observability

Qualifications

• Strong experience with monitoring, logging, alerting and observability in cloud environments
• Experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting in cloud environments
• Deep familiarity with tools like Grafana and Promethius
• Experience with performance tuning
• Proficiency in Python programming and scripting
• Experience with OpenStack administration and operations preferred
• Strong experience with Ansible f or automation and configuration management
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD tools and workflows (e.g., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD)
• Proficiency in Python programming or scripting
• Good understanding of networking and security best practices in cloud deployments
• Experience with containerization technologies (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes)
• Experience with infrastructure as code and deployment automation
• Excellent troubleshooting and problem-solving skills
• Strong communication and collaboration abilities
• Experience
• 8+ years of professional experience in cloud engineering, platform administration, or infrastructure automation
• 8+ years of experience with OpenStack or similar cloud platforms
• 8+ years of experience with Python and Ansible
• 8+ years of experience with CI/CD systems and containerization technologies
• Experience with hybrid or multi-cloud environments (AWS, GCP, Azure, or on-premises) is a plus
• Experience with low level virtualization technologies (QEMU/libvirt) is a plus
• Education
• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or equivalent education or work experience
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• Annual Salary
• The above annual salary range is a general guideline. Multiple factors are taken into consideration to arrive at the final hourly rate/ annual salary to be offered to the selected candidate. Factors include, but are not limited to, the scope and responsibilities of the role, the selected candidate’s work experience, education and training, the work location as well as market and business considerations.
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