Principal Architect
- Fourkites
- 12 - 20 years
- Chennai
- 16 days ago
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Job Description
At FourKites we have the opportunity to tackle complex challenges with real-world impacts. Whether its medical supplies from Cardinal Health or groceries for Walmart, the FourKites platform helps customers operate global supply chains that are efficient, agile and sustainable.
Join a team of curious problem solvers that celebrates differences, leads with empathy and values inclusivity.
Principal Architects at FourKites drive Technology & Best Practices in Engineering, responsible for Scaling, Performance, Availability (99.99%) & Quality of products. They participate in development with teams, creating exemplary modules & systems that demonstrate best practices. They provide strong technology leadership and mentoring through code reviews, design reviews and architecture discussions. Principal Architects define & implement long-term technology vision across products & teams, experimenting with relevant technologies while measuring impact. As primary owners of product architecture, they ensure proper review and implementation, represent FourKites in external forums, and create architectures for existing and new problem spaces in the Supply chain/logistics domain.
Who you are:
- Hands-on experience managing production-grade Kubernetes clusters
- Experience with at least 2 end-to-end migrations (Cloud, databases, Container Orchestration, API Gateways)
- Experience managing cloud infrastructure for SaaS companies
- Deep understanding and experience with Docker and Kubernetes orchestration
- Experience managing microservices architectures
- Deep understanding of cloud infrastructure security with responsibility for security and compliance audits
- Experience handling low latency and high request volume requirements
- Understanding of open source vs. SaaS observability platforms
- Security Experience (SOC2, PCI)
- DR Drills experience
- Automation capabilities (building workflows to reduce manual tasks using scripts, open source tools, AWS System Manager)
- Strong understanding of observability with ability to instrument end-to-end
Technical Expertise:
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent practical experience
- Strong UNIX/Linux systems administration skills
- Advanced troubleshooting abilities across systems, networks, and application code
- Programming proficiency in Python or other relevant languages
- Experience maintaining high-availability systems with stringent uptime requirements
Tools Experience:
- Logging: Graylog with Elastic Search Backend, Signoz
- Monitoring: Datadog / NewRelic / Chronosphere
- CI/CD: BitBucket / GitLab / Jenkins / ArgoCD
- IaaS: Terraform
- Languages: Python/Flask
- API Gateway: Kong / Istio / Service Mesh
- Configuration Management: AWS Systems Manager
- Serverless: Lambda, Fargate
- Messaging: Confluent Kafka / Cloudera / HD Insights
- Databases: Postgres, Cassandra / Atlas MongoDB, RDS
What youll be doing:
- Collaborate closely with Development teams to resolve bottlenecks
- Participate in on-call rotation for production support
- Debug product issues during outages and conduct root cause analysis
- Set up CI/CD pipelines for new projects
- Partner with engineering leadership to establish SLIs, SLOs, SLAs, and Error budgets
- Provide production support with quick resolution during outages
- Work with frontend and backend teams to automate repetitive tasks and improve system health
- Ensure automated setup and updates of all development environments
- Maintain infrastructure with focus on security and compliance
Kindly apply through this link - https://boards.greenhouse.io/fourkites/jobs/6715916
Job Classification
Industry: Software ProductFunctional Area / Department: Engineering - Software & QARole Category: DevOpsRole: DevOps Consultant / ArchitectEmployement Type: Full timeContact Details:
Company: FourkitesLocation(s): Chennai
Keyskills: Ci/Cd Devops Cloud Infrastructure Site Reliability Engineering Kubernetes Github Sre Microservice Based Architecture Devsecops Docker Terraform Containerization Infrastructure Security
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