System Engineer

About the team:

The Flipkart Cloud Platform team is an amalgam of software development, networking and systems engineering, and needs expertise to build and run large scale, massively distributed, fault-tolerant software and hardware systems scaling to 10s of thousands of servers and 100s of petabytes of storage spanning across multiple data centers. You would be solving problems of systems at scale and would need the ability to think outside the box.

The team is looking for a System Engineer to design, implement, maintain, and support our growing private cloud infrastructure. You will be part of the team that is responsible for designing and developing the compute and storage infrastructure from hardware to operation systems and virtualisation stack that meet business objectives and SLAs. You will be part of the Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) team of Central Platforms Group (CPG).

About the Role:

• Building, Managing, Supporting & Monitoring all installed hardware systems and infrastructure
• Installing, configuring, testing and maintaining hardware management systems, operating system and container and virtualisation stack.
• Ensuring the highest levels of systems and infrastructure availability
• Review and influence new and evolving design, architecture, standards, and methods for operating services and systems
• Participate in software and system performance analysis and tuning, service capacity planning and demand forecasting
• Manage the availability, scalability, security and performance of our platforms and applications.
• Diagnose bottlenecks for the full stack and provide recommendations to overcome the bottlenecks as an interim work around, while a long-term solution is investigated.

Must have :

• BS/MS degree in Computer Science or related technical discipline (or equivalent)
• Work experience of 2.5 - 5 years (excluding internship)
• Experience in System programming, tuning and troubleshooting of Unix/Linux Operating systems.
• Exposure to the administration and performance tuning of storage systems.
• Strong understanding of networking and packet tracing.
• Strong working knowledge in any of the system programming languages like Go, Java, C++ and solid scripting skills in Python/Bash.
• Ability to pick up new software, frameworks and APIs quickly
• Sharp and tenacious troubleshooting skills: you can fix anything.
• Good verbal and written communication skills.

Good to have :

• Experience with virtualisation or containerisation systems (OpenStack/Kubernetes).
• Experience with network attached storage systems (NVMeoF/iSCSI)
• Experience server and storage hardware platform management systems (BMC/IPMI/Redfish)