Senior Cloud Infrastructure Engineer - Periscope

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor's or master's degree in computer science or equivalent area
• 6+ years of experience in technology solutions preferably working with microservice architectures focusing on SaaS delivery models
• Demonstrate extensive experience working with leading Cloud Providers, particularly AWS and Azure
• Very strong in Linux systems and a wide range of DevOps tools, including Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Docker, Kubernetes, and ArgoCD
• Production grade experience and knowledge of load balancing, network security, standard network protocols (HTTP/s, DNS, etc.)
• Experience in supporting web front-end and data-intensive applications, including Ingress traffic, REST APIs, Postgres, and ETL workloads
• Leverage your programming skills in Python or Golang to contribute to development tasks and enhance system functionality
• Exceptional troubleshooting and debugging skills, effectively resolving complex issues to ensure uninterrupted system operation
• Strong experience in automation ensuring to uphold system quality attributes such as performance, scalability, availability, fault-tolerance, security, deployment, and maintainability
• Exposure to modern monitoring, alerting and logging tools: Elastic, NewRelic, Dynatrace
• Strong communication skills enable you to effectively convey technical constraints and decisions, fostering alignment and collaboration across all levels
• The ability to collaborative in an inclusive team environment, where listening, communication, evaluation, and prioritization thrive even in high-pressure, mission-critical situations

WHO YOU'LL WORK WITH

You will be based in our Bangalore or Gurugram office as a member of Periscope’s technology team.
Periscope is the asset based arm of McKinsey’s Marketing & Sales practice and is at the leading edge of the new ways we serve clients. This integrated model of serving clients, i.e. combining our generalist consulting approaches with the solutions, is a proof of the firm’s commitment to continuous innovation in the spirit of bringing the best of the firm to our clients.
Periscope® By McKinsey enables better commercial decisions by uncovering actionable insights. The Periscope platform combines world leading intellectual property, prescriptive analytics, and cloud based tools to provide more than 25 solutions focused on insights and marketing, with expert support and training. It is a unique combination that drives revenue growth both now and in the future. Customer experience, performance, pricing, category, and sales optimization are powered by the Periscope platform. Periscope has a presence in 26 locations across 16 countries with a team of 600+ business and IT professionals and a network of 300+ experts. To learn more about how Periscope’s solutions and experts are helping businesses continually drive better performance, visit http://www.periscope-solutions.com/ 

WHAT YOU'LL DO

You will be a core member of Periscope’s technology team with responsibilities that range from developing and deploying our core enterprise products to ensuring that McKinsey’s craft stays on the leading edge of technology.  
In this role, you will be involved in software development projects in a hands-on manner. You will spend about 80% of your time building and improving our deployment scripts and toolsets for cloud based solutions on AWS and Azure platforms. Your expertise will expand into database management, Kubernetes cluster setup and monitoring, performance tuning and continuous delivery domains over time.
You will be an active learner, tinkering with new open source libraries, using unfamiliar technologies without supervision and learning frameworks and approaches. You will also have a strong understanding of key agile engineering practices to guide teams on improvement opportunities in their engineering practices. You will also provide ongoing coaching and mentoring to the other DevOps engineers to improve our organizational capability.