Cloud Automation Technical Lead

Company: Thoughtspot
Location: Sunnyvale
Posted on: November 19, 2021

Job Description:

We are looking for a well rounded senior software developer with a customer operations mindset to join our Cloud SystemsReliability Engineering (SRE) team.The right candidate for this role will have a passion to develop tools and automation to deploy/maintain/troubleshoot distributed services/applications in cloud and on-premise infrastructure. You will be responsible for the big picture of how the services in ThoughtSpot stack relate to each other and use a breadth of tools and approaches to solve a broad spectrum of problems. The use cases include, but not limited to, minimizing time spent on operational work, incident postmortems and proactive identification of potential issues. Ability to work with cross-functional teams in a rapidly growing environment is important. Responsibilities

• Take a customer-first approach in understanding the requirements, nuances of different public clouds (AWS, Azure, or GCP) features, operational costs, and then implement efficient solutions for running SaaS services. AWS is preferred.
• Develop tools and frameworks for distributed systems, services and applications.
• Maintain, monitor and troubleshoot Infrastructure (IaaS).
• Work with Engineering teams to define, architect and implement tools to enhance debuggability, supportability, availability, scalability and performance.
• Ensure all key services implement metrics, are monitored and raise appropriate alerts.
• Develop reliable and scalable systems to monitor production alerts and build to auto-remedy.
• Be an expert in cloud and on-premise infrastructure by developing automation and best practices.
• Participate in on-call rotation for critical SRE systems, lead incident review and root cause analysis.
• Handle cloud NetOps and SecOps aspects for Cloud and on-prem. Required skills/qualifications
  • B.Tech. degree in Computer Science or equivalent.
  • At least 5 years of software development experience including 2 or more years in a technical leadership role.
  • Prior experience being part of Cloud SecOps, NetOps team. Strong expertise in Cloud Security and/or Cloud Network.
  • Proficient in programming in C/C++, Python, Go or Java and familiarity with Kubernetes.
  • Ability to diagnose technical problems, debug code and automate tasks.
  • Strong problem solving skills, algorithmic thinking and a strong foundation in how systems should work.
  • Prior experience being part of Cloud SecOps, NetOps team. Strong expertise in Cloud Security and/or Cloud Network.
  • Understanding of tools & frameworks required to Operate and manage Cloud infrastructure.
  • Experience in linux, virtualization, DevOps tools and cloud technologies.
  • Solid communication skills and ability to work independently.
  • DevOps mindset. You are familiar with Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) concepts. You treat operational issues as if they are software problems. You view software as a primary tool to manage, maintain, fix and extend systems required to support large development environments. You promote operational excellence!
  • Automation. You leverage automation, monitoring and data analysis to ensure high availability (HA) for internal services and infrastructure.
  • Problem Solver. You love tackling the most difficult of challenges and know how to troubleshoot in order to get to the best solution. About ThoughtSpot With ThoughtSpot's next-generation Search & AI-driven analytics platform, business people can type a simple Google-like search in natural language to instantly analyze billions of rows of data, and leverage artificial intelligence to get trusted, relevant insights (at the speed of thought!) pushed to them as answers to thousands of questions they might not have thought to ask. ThoughtSpot is simple enough for any business person to use, yet powerful enough to handle even the largest, most complex enterprise data without sacrificing speed, security, or governance. At ThoughtSpot, we solve some of the hardest, most challenging problems in technology. The kind of problems we solve require diverse perspectives and the team-spirit to see those differences as opportunities rather than roadblocks. It's why diversity isn't a box to check; it's the heart of "Selfless Excellence," our core value we live every day. To make our dent in the universe, we seek employees with unique identities, backgrounds, and perspectives that want to build an inclusive, respectful company culture and truly challenge the status quo For more information please visit thoughtspot.com. #LI-RG1 #LI-REMOTE
    Category
    
    Software Developers
    Experience
    
    5 to 20+ years
    Job type
    
    Full time

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