Staff Software Engineer - Cloud Platform Engineering

Harness is the AI Software Delivery Platform company, led by technologist and entrepreneur Jyoti Bansal. As a Staff Cloud Engineer at Harness, you will play a pivotal role in designing, building, and maintaining cloud infrastructure, ensuring reliability, scalability, and performance through Cloud Engineering and Site Reliability Engineering practices.

Responsibilities:

• Design, build, and manage scalable, secure, and reliable cloud infrastructure using GCP, AWS or Azure
• Develop infrastructure-as-code using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, or similar
• Implement SRE practices to ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of cloud services
• Develop and maintain monitoring, logging, and alerting systems to detect and address issues proactively
• Perform capacity planning and demand forecasting to ensure system scalability and performance
• Deploy, manage, and scale applications using Kubernetes (K8s)
• Utilize Helm for packaging, deploying, and managing applications on Kubernetes
• Design and implement continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to automate the delivery of applications and infrastructure
• Develop automation scripts and tools to streamline operations and improve efficiency
• Ensure cloud infrastructure and applications meet security and compliance standards
• Implement security best practices and perform regular security audits and assessments
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams including developers, product managers, and operations to deliver high-quality solutions
• Mentor and guide junior engineers, sharing best practices and fostering a culture of continuous improvement

Requirements:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience
• 7+ years of experience in cloud engineering, site reliability engineering, or related roles
• Strong experience with cloud platforms (AWS, GCP, Azure) and cloud-native services
• Proficiency in infrastructure-as-code tools (Terraform), Helm package manager and configuration management tools (Ansible, Chef, Puppet)
• Experience with SRE principles, including error budgets, SLIs, SLOs, and incident management
• Strong knowledge of monitoring and observability tools (Prometheus, Grafana, GCM)
• Expertise in building and managing CI/CD pipelines using tools like Jenkins, GitLab CI, CircleCI or Harness
• Strong coding skills (Python, Go, etc.) and familiarity with version control systems (Git)
• Understanding of security best practices for cloud infrastructure and applications
• Excellent problem-solving skills and attention to detail
• Strong communication and collaboration skills, with a proactive and innovative approach
• Experience with AI-OPS
• Experience with compliance frameworks (ISO 27001, SOC 2, PCI DSS) is a plus