Thursday, November 30, 2023

Principal SRE-AWS

We are looking for Principal SRE-AWS

For further details please drop email with updated profile at aravinthu@tsmspl.com

Location: Remote/Hybrid

 

Key Responsibilities

• Develop orchestration and automation for AWS environment builds that can be replicated to other regions through automation while minimizing costs in support of the Company cloud operations SaaS & Hosted environments.

• Codevelop the automation & orchestration framework including establishing design patterns related to the CMDB, config management, password management and other key integrations from the ground up with other SREs.

• Codevelop orchestration and automation for the lifecycle management of linux systems, Kubernetes & containers in support of the Company cloud operations SaaS & Hosted environments.

• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for the automation and orchestration of the SaaS & Hosted cloud operations environment.

• Provide AWS architecture, guidance, and oversight to the project engineering and support teams.

• Continuous development of systems self-healing automation to reduce toil.

• Partake in a rotation providing incident and request handling support, identifying improvement opportunities where automation or rearchitecting of solutions can improve overall outcomes and reduce toil.

• Will serve as an AWS technical lead on major projects inside of hybrid cloud environments.

• Responsible for training SRE team members, project engineers, technical support staff and application development staff to understand and work within the defined AWS architecture and standards being implemented.

Professional Skills & Abilities

• Desire and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, highly demanding, dynamic business and cloud operations environment.

• The role requires analytical acumen and solution orientation to probe for understanding and to make appropriate decisions to address the nuances of technical and business challenges to achieve the targeted outcome.

• Strong customer service orientation

• Excellent communication skills and experience in driving cross department initiatives to obtain organizational objectives & meet customer needs.

• Strong communication, presentation, business, and technical writing skills

• The ability to provide excellent customer service as well as manage and build strong relationships both internally and externally.

• Strong interest in further developing and integrating operations with technology in business value creating ways.

• Awareness of emerging issues, including regulations, industry practices and technology

 

Technical Skills & Experience

• 15+ years of experience in job specific skills.

• 8+ years of experience in writing automation scripts in bash, python, or powershell to solve technical and business problems in IT operations.

• 6+ years of experience architecting and engineering secure, high performance and highly available environments in AWS

• 4+ years of experience in orchestrating automation of AWS environments building runbooks that align with business work streams and value streams

• 1+ year of experience automation against AWS APIs for system builds, backups and other system management interactions

• 1+ year of experience in container management and orchestration with kubernetes

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.


Software Engineer III

 

We are looking for Software Engineer III

For further details please drop email with updated profile at aravinthu@tsmspl.com

Location: Remote/Hybrid

 

Role Description: The Software Engineer III is expected to have an in-depth understanding of our technology stack and demonstrate the ability to work independently on complex tasks. This role will contribute not only to codebase but also to team dynamics, mentoring junior engineers and refining our processes.

 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Develop and maintain well-documented code, emphasizing quality, testing, and security

• Engage in solution design and architecture, leveraging our core technology stack: Go or C#, AWS, React, and Typescript/JS

• Mentor junior engineers, fostering a culture of growth and knowledge sharing

• Participate actively in design and code reviews, ensuring consistent quality and adherence to best practices

• Contribute ideas and suggestions for product and process improvements

 

Requirements:

• 3-5 years of relevant experience in full-stack software development

• Proficiency in Go or C#, AWS, React, and Typescript/JS

• Proficiency in SQL, NoSQL, or graph database technologies

• Familiarity with CI/CD and DevOps best practices • Demonstrated ability to mentor and guide junior team members • Effective collaboration skills

Benefits:

• Ability to work remotely with a talented, diverse, global team • Competitive compensation and career growth opportunities

• Comprehensive health and wellness packages

• A conducive and agile work environment emphasizing work-life balance

• Opportunity to influence product direction and contribute to a broader strategy

Principal Software Engineer


We are looking for Principal Software Engineer

For further details please drop email with updated profile at aravinthu@tsmspl.com

Location: Remote/Hybrid

 

Role Description: The Principal Software Engineer is a recognized authority in our field, steering the technical strategy and vision of the organization. They lead in identifying and solving the most critical technical challenges while fostering an innovative spirit. As a beacon of expertise, they shape the company’s engineering culture and mentor engineers, ensuring that the company remains at the forefront of technological advancements.

 

Primary Responsibilities:

• Shape the technical strategy and direction for the organization • Address critical and complex technical challenges

• Drive innovation and lead large-scale architectural initiatives

• Contribute to the development of the company’s engineering culture

• Define and drive the overarching architectural vision, influencing technical direction for large scale systems

Requirements:

• 5+ years of relevant experience in full-stack software development

• Expert full-stack skills including Go or C#, AWS, React, and Typescript/JS

• Deep knowledge of SQL, NoSQL, graph databases and related technologies

• Expertise with CI/CD and DevOps techniques and best practices

• Recognized expert in the technical field with a proven record of organizational delivery

• Capability to provide technical leadership and steer initiatives at an organizational level

• Lead strategic initiatives that drive business growth and innovation

• Demonstrated leadership, collaboration, and strategic thinking skills

 

Benefits:

• Ability to work remotely with a talented, diverse, global team

• Competitive compensation and career growth opportunities

• Comprehensive health and wellness packages

• A conducive and agile work environment emphasizing work-life balance

• Opportunity to influence product direction and contribute to a broader strategy

Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Platforms and Systems Specialist)

 

We are looking for Principal Site Reliability Engineer (Platforms and Systems Specialist)

For further details please drop email with updated profile at aravinthu@tsmspl.com

Location: Remote/Hybrid


General Summary:  The Cloud Operations team provides 24x7x365 support for all Company SaaS & Hosting customers globally. This business unit is responsible for the day-to-day management and support of the cloud operations environment including the uptime, performance and high availability of all customers supporting systems inside of the SaaS & Hosted environments. The SaaS & hosted ecosystem is comprised of multi-tiered applications, microservice architectures, containers & virtual servers as well as large & complex multiterabyte SQL database systems. The SRE Platforms & Systems Specialist will be focused on the orchestration and automation of infrastructure and deployments supporting the lifecycle management processes for Company hosted environments in both public and private cloud settings. The ultimate objective will be to minimize toil as much as possible through automated solutions for the day-to-day maintenance, upkeep, and operations control tasks. This empowers the engineer to focus their efforts on improving the performance of the existing platform and contribute to the design and architecture of new infrastructure and software inside the SaaS ecosystem. This resource should have the skillsets of both a principal systems engineer and a junior to mid-level software developer. This includes a deep understanding of Windows and Linux, AWS, and other cloud platforms.

 

Key Responsibilities

• Develop orchestration and automation for Active Directory, task management systems, secure file transfer systems and other common cloud operations platforms in support of the Company cloud operations SaaS & Hosted environments.

• Codevelop the automation & orchestration framework including establishing design patterns related to the CMDB, config management, password management and other key integrations from the ground up with other SREs

• Implement and maintain CI/CD pipelines for the automation and orchestration of the SaaS & Hosted cloud operations environments.

• Create automation and orchestration for core datacenter cloud operations services.

• Continuous development of systems self-healing automation to reduce toil.

• Partake in a rotation providing incident and request handling support, identifying improvement opportunities where automation or rearchitecting of solutions can improve overall outcomes and reduce toil.

• Will serve as technical lead for Active Directory and other central platform services on major projects inside of hybrid cloud environments

• Responsible for training SRE team members, project engineers, technical support staff and application development staff to better utilize AD & other managed platforms. Professional Skills & Abilities

• Desire and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, highly demanding, dynamic business and cloud operations environment.

• The role requires analytical acumen and solution orientation to probe for understanding and to make appropriate decisions to address the nuances of technical and business challenges to achieve the targeted outcome.

• Strong customer service orientation • Excellent communication skills and experience in driving cross department initiatives to obtain organizational objectives & meet customer needs

• Strong communication, presentation, business, and technical writing skills

• The ability to provide excellent customer service as well as manage and build strong relationships both internally and externally

• Strong interest in further developing and integrating operations with technology in business value creating ways

• Awareness of emerging issues, including regulations, industry practices and technology

• Experience with Kubernetes and Container administration is a plus.

 

Technical Skills & Experience

• 15+ years of experience in job specific skills.

• 8+ years of experience in writing automation scripts in bash, python, or powershell to solve technical and business problems in IT operations.

• 8+ years of experience with Active Directory, DNS, secure file transfer, OS Patching, and various other platform services

• 4+ years of experience in orchestrating automation for cloud operations or managed services environments building runbooks that align with work streams and value streams

• 3+ years of experience direct involvement with datacenter buildouts &/or Disaster Recovery of core platform systems such as Active Directory and other services previously mentioned

• 1+ year of experience automation against AWS APIs for system builds, backups and other system management interactions • Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Infrastructure Architect

 

We are looking for Infrastructure Architect

For further details please drop email with updated profile at aravinthu@tsmspl.com

Location: Remote/Hybrid


General Summary:

 The Cloud Operations team provides 24x7x365 support for all Company SaaS & Hosting customers globally. This business unit is responsible for the day-to-day management and support of the cloud operations environment including the uptime, performance and high availability of all customer supporting systems inside of the SaaS & Hosted environments. The SaaS & hosted ecosystem is comprised of multi-tiered applications, microservice architectures, containers & virtual servers as well as large & complex multi[1]terabyte SQL database systems. The Principal Cloud Infrastructure Architect will be responsible for overseeing the design, implementation & management of key infrastructure & application systems including Active Directory, OS Patching, Repositories, SW management systems, DNS, and other centralized shared services that will need to be implemented in support of customer systems across private and public cloud environments including AWS.

 

Key Responsibilities

• Lead a team of globally distributed Infrastructure Engineers to architect and implement a scalable and standardized solutions for hosting Company applications in private and public cloud environments

• Responsible for implementing the platform systems and overseeing the effective day to day management such as patching of all systems, software management, AD management, GPOs etc

• Responsible for establishing, maintaining and improving the cloud SaaS architecture in AWS in alignment with business and financial objectives

• Responsible for driving cost optimization across the infrastructure from platform systems through AWS infrastructure to maximize gross margin for the SaaS business

• Mentor and coach team members to achieve necessary outcomes and grow their skillsets • Create a culture of continuous improvement in alignment with business requirements and KPIs

• Responsible for working with SREs & Developers to appropriately design solutions and establish architecture standards that can ultimately be automated

• Work with SREs to build a CMDB framework and related design patterns to allow for Infrastructure-as-code provisioning at the infrastructure & platform level

• Partake in a rotation providing incident and request handling support, identifying improvement opportunities where automation or rearchitecting of solutions can improve overall outcomes and reduce toil.

• Will serve as a primary infrastructure engineer for the cloud operations team on major projects inside of private and public cloud environments including AWS

• Responsible for training SRE team members, technical support staff and application development staff on infrastructure and platform tooling, standards and lifecycle processes Professional Skills & Abilities

• Desire and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, highly demanding, dynamic business and cloud operations environment.

• The role requires analytical acumen and solution orientation to probe for understanding and to make appropriate decisions to address the nuances of technical and business challenges in order to achieve the targeted outcome

• Strong customer service orientation

• Excellent communication skills and experience in driving cross department initiatives to obtain organizational objectives & meet customer needs

• Strong communication, presentation, business and technical writing skills • The ability to provide excellent customer service as well as manage and build strong relationships both internally and externally

• Strong interest in further developing and integrating operations with technology in business value creating ways

• Awareness of emerging issues, including regulations, industry practices and technology

 

Technical Skills & Experience

• 18+ years of experience in job specific skills.

• 8+ years of experience in scalable infrastructure and platforms architecture, implementation, and management including Active Directory, OS Patching, Software Management, Repositories, backups and other infrastructure services

• 8+ years of experience in scalable application and database engineering & architecture

• 5+ years of AWS infrastructure EC2 & PaaS experience

• 3+ years of experience in script development in python or powershell related to infrastructure lifecycle management

• Networking and information security skills are desirable.

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Principal Cloud Operations Infrastructure Engineer

 

We are looking for a Principal Cloud Operations Infrastructure Engineer (Linux/Storage)

For further details please drop email with updated profile at aravinthu@tsmspl.com

Location: Remote/Hybrid


General Summary:

·       The Cloud Operations team provides 24x7x365 support for all Company SaaS & Hosting customers globally.

·       This business unit is responsible for the day-to-day management and support of the cloud operations environment including the uptime, performance and high availability of all customers supporting systems inside of the SaaS & Hosted environments.

·       The SaaS & hosted ecosystem is comprised of multi-tiered applications, microservice architectures, containers & virtual servers as well as large & complex multi-terabyte SQL database systems.

·       The Principal Cloud Operations Infrastructure Engineer will be responsible for designing, implementing & managing key infrastructure systems supporting Cloud Linux Systems, Storage and hyperscaler hosted instance backups.

·       Additional responsibilities may include DR event planning, future expansion into COLO hosted infrastructure and, and other centralized shared services that will need to be implemented in support of customer systems across private and public cloud environments including AWS.

 

 

Key Responsibilities

• Responsible for working with the Cloud Operations Support, Infrastructure, DBA, and SRE teams to collect requirements for system backups.

• Serve as the SME for Linux matters including the establishment and maintenance of SUSE and other linux VM templates

• Responsible for hardening linux systems per CIS standards through infrastructure as code

• Design the new backup solution that fits our needs, ensuring alignment with key deliverables from leadership.

• Follow established solution development processes to select and implement appropriate solutions across the relevant technology domains of linux, storage, backups, and disaster recovery to meet Company’s needs.

• Responsible for working with Cloud Operations Support, Infrastructure, DBA, and SRE teams to document and deploy new solutions

• Responsible for training on a cadence to the Cloud Operations Organization on how newly developed solutions operate.

• Provide escalation support on related technology issues to the Cloud Operations Organization serving in a 24x7 on-call rotation.

• Participate in Support ticket resolution for areas of responsibility.

• Manage Cloud based hyperscaler storage, backup and related offerings to maximize the value of the leveraged hyperscaler while minimizing the cost to the business. • Participate in on-call rotation every month.

• Responsible for engagement in the project deployment activities related to job function. Professional Skills & Abilities

• Desire and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, highly demanding, dynamic business and cloud operations environment.

• The role requires analytical acumen and solution orientation to probe for understanding and to make appropriate decisions to address the nuances of technical and business challenges in order to achieve the targeted outcome

• Strong customer service orientation

• Excellent communication skills and experience in driving cross department initiatives to obtain organizational objectives & meet customer needs

• Strong communication, presentation, business and technical writing skills

• The ability to provide excellent customer service as well as manage and build strong relationships both internally and externally

• Strong interest in further developing and integrating operations with technology in business value creating ways

• Awareness of emerging issues, including regulations, industry practices and technology Technical Skills & Experience

• 10+ years of experience in job specific skills.

• 5+ years of experience in scalable infrastructure and platforms architecture, implementation, and management including Linux systems management and architecture, storage and backup management in AWS, as well as Database backups, and other infrastructure services

• 5+ years of experience in linux administration and management

• 3+ years of experience in Database backups, restores, and database server migrations.

• 3+ years of experience in script development in python or powershell related to infrastructure lifecycle management

• Degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience.

Wednesday, November 29, 2023

Sr. Launch & Deployment Engineer

We are looking for Sr. Launch & Deployment Engineer

Please get in touch with me at supriya@pivotal.associates for further information

 Title: Sr. Launch & Deployment Engineer, MSP Customer Experience

Location: Manchester

 

 

Key job responsibilities

  • You will manage the development of project plans and technical solutions which may not be defined, including problem statement and resource requirements definition.
  • You will influence decisions on deployment and machine performance execution strategy to senior level leadership.
  • You will own the tactical planning on the installation of complex cross-functional projects with considerable impact across the functions of schedule, scope, cost and product performance. Projects may span organizations or geographies in support of a business objective, and includes the management of contractors and vendors.
  • You will own the strategy of your program/product for annual planning of resources and budget, defining deployment plans of record and continuous improvement goals. This includes setting standards, driving mechanisms and delivering efficiencies across both deployment execution and machine performance, based on your own observations and the voice of the customer.
  • You will own communication of program execution and performance both verbally and in writing, consolidating inputs across multiple internal cross-functional business teams.
  • This is a travel-based role and you will be expected to travel to meet the requirements of your projects across UK & USA, upwards of 75% or more.

A day in the life:

1.    In this role you will be focused on two primary lines of effort. The first is deployment project management, and the second is product ramp up support.

2.    Daily you will be expected to collaborate with hardware engineering, technical program and product managers, and internal customers including site maintenance and operations teams, to ensure the product you are deploying, is both ready for deployment and capable of achieving the business requirements.

3.    You will travel to your project sites, collaborate both virtually and in person, to ensure all business stakeholders are aligned on program status.

4.    You will manage the day-to-day project scheduling and budget management, and work on continuous improvement activities to improve the projects in your space. You will spend time with mentors and your manager to develop your professional skills and collaborate amongst your team to move the needle on the services you are accountable for.

Director – IT & OT

 


We are looking for Director – IT & OT

Please get in touch with me at supriya@pivotal.associates for further information

 


Title: Director - Information Technology and Operations Technology

Location: Manchester

 

 

Responsibilities:

Ø Develop and implement IT and OT strategies, policies, and procedures to ensure the company's IT and OT infrastructure meet business requirements and objectives.
Provide leadership and direction to IT and OT teams, ensuring that team members are adequately trained and equipped to perform their roles.

Ø Oversee the design, installation, configuration, and maintenance of industrial control systems, and other IT and OT infrastructure components.

 

Ø Identify and manage risks associated with IT and OT infrastructure, including security risks, compliance risks, and operational risks.
Ensure compliance with relevant regulations and standards related to IT and OT, including NERC-CIP, NIST, and other relevant frameworks.

Ø Collaborate with other departments to understand their IT and OT needs and develop solutions that meet those needs.
Manage IT and OT budgets, ensuring that spending is aligned with business objectives and delivers value to the company.

Ø Evaluate and implement new IT and OT technologies that could enhance the company's operations and competitiveness.

Ø Develop and maintain relationships with IT and OT vendors, service providers, and other external partners to ensure effective collaboration and timely resolution of issues.

Requirements:

*    Bachelor's or master’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, or related field.

*    Minimum of 15 years of experience in IT and OT management, with a focus on Industrial Control Systems, Cloud Technologies, and Information Technology.

*    Strong leadership and team management skills, with a track record of successfully leading and motivating IT and OT teams.

*    Excellent communication skills, with the ability to communicate complex technical information to non-technical stakeholders.

*    Proven ability to develop and implement IT and OT strategies that align with business objectives.

*    Strong project management skills, with the ability to manage multiple projects simultaneously and deliver on time and within budget.

*    Knowledge of relevant regulations and standards related to IT and OT, including NERC CIP, NIST, and other relevant frameworks.

*     Ability to evaluate and implement new IT and OT technologies that could enhance the company's operations and competitiveness.

*     Experience managing IT and OT budgets, with a focus on delivering value to the organisation

Lead Engineer (Principal RF Test Development)

 


We are looking for Principal RF Test Development Lead

Please get in touch with me at supriya@pivotal.associates for further information

 

Job Title: Lead Engineer (Principal RF Test Development)

Location: Bristol 

 

Job Summary:

 

v  We have an exciting opportunity for an onsite Principal RF Test Development Lead Engineer to join our Test Equipment Engineering (TEE) directorate in UK. TEE is a multi-discipline organization responsible for developing test solutions for all Raytheon products. Typical work involves designing interface assemblies, selection and integration with test instruments and environments, to develop a test system for all Raytheon products including both lab engineering and factory production test systems.

 

v  As a Principal RF Test Development Lead Engineer, you will lead the efforts of designing test system architectures, as well as lead a test engineering team through the Integration, Validation and Verification of the test systems to be released into production. You will contribute to the completion of all stages of test product development and will be responsible for helping to maintain the technical, cost and schedule aspects of your assigned projects and uncover and resolve issues associated with the development and implementation of test products.

 

v  Lead the design, integration, verification, and validation of production test solutions for RF modules, RF CCAs, antenna subassemblies as well as power supplies/computing subassemblies.

 

v  Collaborate with cross functional teams to deploy test solutions that meet technical and production test needs.

 

v  Resolve all technical issues and lead technical troubleshooting efforts while working with cross functional teams to meet deployment deadlines and production milestones.

 

Basic Qualifications:

 

·       Typically requires a bachelor’s in science, Technology, Engineering, or Mathematics (STEM) and a minimum of eight (10) years of prior relevant experience.

·       Experience with RF and microwave circuits and digital assemblies.

·       Experience with a variety of RF/MW test platforms, RF test methods, transceiver architectures, measurements with test equipment and statistical analysis.

·       Experience in the production test of RF/Microwave modules for complex leading-edge electronics products.

·       Technical knowledge of RF PWBs layout.

·       ADS or RF modeling tools, knowledge of digital and analog circuitry.

·       Experience with Project, or equivalent project tracking tools.

·       Strong communication and presentation skills