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Senior Staff Engineer

Posted: 3 weeks ago
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Remote Work Policy

Remote only

Company Location
Visa Sponsorship

Not Available

RelocationAllowed
Skills
Azure
ec2
AWS
Kubernetes
Go
GCP
Golang
Kubernetes Controllers
Admission Webhooks

About the job

Job Title: Senior Staff Engineer with Cloud Infra and Kubernetes compute Platform + Go Lang

Full remote

Duration: 1 Year, possible extension

Location: Remote

Why Zensar?

We’re a bunch of hardworking, fun-loving, people-oriented technology enthusiasts. We love what we do, and we’re passionate about helping our clients thrive in an increasingly complex digital world. Zensar is an organization focused on building relationships with our clients and with each other—and happiness is at the core of everything we do. In fact, we’re so into happiness that we’ve created a Global Happiness Council, and we send out a Happiness Survey to our employees each year. We’ve learned that employee happiness requires more than a competitive paycheck, and our employee value proposition—grow, own, achieve, learn (GOAL)—lays out the core opportunities we seek to foster for every employee. Teamwork and collaboration are critical to Zensar’s mission and success, and our teams work on a diverse and challenging mix of technologies across a broad industry spectrum. These industries include banking and financial services, high-tech and manufacturing, healthcare, insurance, retail, and consumer services. Our employees enjoy flexible work arrangements and a competitive benefits package, including medical, dental, vision, 401(k), among other benefits. If you are looking for a place to have an immediate impact, to grow and contribute, where we work hard, play hard, and support each other, consider joining team Zensar!

Zensar is looking for a Seasoned Staff Engineer to Work in Cloud Infrastructure Compute team as Lead in the United States (%100 Remote role, Anywhere in US but available during Business hours of client). This position is open for contract to hire and Full Time /Permanent role with excellent benefits and professional growth opportunities.

The Difference You Will Make:

As a Senior Staff Engineer on the Cloud Infrastructure Compute team, you’ll be the technical leader for the lifecycle management of our Kubernetes compute platform. You will enable the Cloud Infrastructure organization to work efficiently and effectively by enhancing all aspects of the engineering experience. This compute platform is the foundation for all of the features that Cloud Infrastructure delivers in security, networking, developer experience, and efficiency. This compute platform ensures the consistency required to enable delivery across multiple cloud vendors. Your peers will rely on you to provide a quality platform that makes it easy to deliver quality features to our product teams across the company. Your team will provide the reliability, scalability, security, and developer experience necessary for infrastructure teams to deliver enhancements to the platform and product teams.

Targeting candidates with experience at cloud-native, DevOps, or infrastructure-focused companies and organizations where Kubernetes is used at scale in production environments. Not targeting candidates whose Kubernetes experience is limited to UI tools, basic cluster ops, or non-engineering functions.

A Typical Day:

  • Provide technical leadership on high-impact projects.
  • Influence and coach a distributed team of engineers.
  • Deliver enhancements that drive the cost efficiency of our cloud platform.
  • Facilitate alignment and clarity across teams on goals, outcomes, and timelines.
  • Manage project priorities, deadlines, and deliverables.
  • Contribute to the multi-year strategy to evolve client’s Cloud Platform
  • Design, develop, test, deploy, maintain, and enhance the compute platform.

Your Expertise:

  • BS, MS or Ph.D. in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
  • 12+ years of relevant work experience in infrastructure
  • 4+ years of expertise with a public cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure) and their infrastructure as a service offering (e.g. EC2).
  • Experience setting technical direction, planning, and successfully executing on large projects spanning multiple teams
  • Kubernetes Experience is required.
  • Istio/Envoy Experience is preferred.
  • Passionate about efficiency, availability, quality and developer experience.

Please factor in the following feedback from the hiring manager when sourcing and screening candidates:

  • Strong preference for candidates proficient in Go (Golang)-MUST
  • Must have advanced Kubernetes expertises
  • Hands-on experience writing Kubernetes controllers
  • Experience building and working with admission webhooks
  • We are not looking for candidates whose Kubernetes experience is limited to:
  • UI-based management “Clicking buttons” or basic cluster operations

Zensar believes that diversity of backgrounds, thought, experience, and expertise fosters the robust exchange of ideas that enables the highest quality collaboration and work product. Zensar is an equal opportunity employer. All employment decisions shall be made without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, disability status, veteran status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, genetic information, marital status, citizenship status or any other basis as protected by federal, state, or local law. Zensar is committed to providing veteran employment opportunities to our service men and women. Zensar is committed to providing equal employment opportunities for people with disabilities or religious observances, including reasonable accommodation when needed. Accommodation made to facilitate the recruiting process are not a guarantee of future or continued accommodation once hired.

All applicants must be legally authorized to work with Zensar. Visa sponsorship may be available for qualified applicants for certain positions.

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Ashish Jha |Talent Acquisition |US ,Canada and Latam-TAG|

Zensar Technologies, 2635 Meridian Pkwy Durham, NC

Landline:508-329-8791

E: [email protected]| www.zensar.com