Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

We, the Cloud Platform Engineering team at Calix are responsible for the Platforms, Tools, and CI/CD pipelines at Calix. Our mission is to enable Calix engineers to accelerate the delivery of world-class products while ensuring the high availability, reliability, security, and performance expected by our customers.

We are seeking Cloud Engineers with proven expertise in the design and building of large-scale Cloud Infrastructure Platforms to join our team and help us deliver the foundation on which Calix products can thrive. You will help us achieve our mission through innovative solutions.

• Design our infrastructure platform components to be highly available, scalable, reliable, and secure.
• Automate the entire lifecycle of platform components from provisioning through decommissioning.
• Ensure Observability is an integral part of the infrastructure platforms and provides adequate visibility about their health, utilization, and cost.
• Build Cloud native CI/CD pipelines, tools and automation that enables developer autonomy and improves their productivity.
• Build tools that predict saturations/failures and take preventive actions through automation.
• Collaborate extensively with cross functional teams to understand their requirements; educate them through documentation/training and improve the adoption of the platforms/tools.
• Provide technical leadership for your peers and help them deliver the best solutions to the rest of Calix.

• 7+ years of experience in building large scale distributed systems in an always available production environment.
• 3+ years of experience in building Infrastructure Platforms and CI/CD pipelines in a major public cloud provide - AWS preferred; hands-on expertise in commonly used Cloud infrastructure/platforms services (e.g., EC2, S3/EBS/EFS, ELB/DNS/NAT/WAF, RDS/Aurora, IAM/KMS/SecretsManager, SNS/SQS, Elasticache, Lambda etc.)
• In-depth knowledge of Kubernetes and its ecosystem - Containerd/Docker, Helm/Plulumi, ServiceMesh, Terraform, Ansible, ArgoCD/Workflow, Tekton, Keptn etc.
• Hand-on experience with observability platforms/tools like ELK/Fluentd/Fluenbit, Grafana / Prometheus / OpenTelemetry , Cortex/InfluxDB and Jaeger/Zipkin etc.
• Experience in Python, Golang or a similar language.
• Proven experience in leading major initiatives from requirements, design, and implementation to ongoing lifecycle management.
• Experience in coaching and mentoring junior engineers; strong verbal and written communications.
• Bachelor s degree in computer science or equivalent.

• This position is based in Bengaluru, India.