Software Engineer II

Job Description

Who You'll Work With

NIKE, Inc. does more than outfit the world's best athletes. It is a place to explore potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At Nike, it's about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving game. This role is part of the Foundational Platform Engineering (FPE) and work with DevOps part of Data Integration team.

Who We Are Looking For

We're looking for a Software Engineer II (AWS DevOps) to join our Data Integration team (DI) .The DI team relies on strong architecture and leadership guidance for Data Integrations and platforms. We serve business and engineering teams across Nike, Inc globally to help fuel our digital transformation. This position will be based in the Bangalore Nike India Technology Center (NITCL).

This role is part of Foundational Platform Engineering (FPE), data integration platforms aggressively innovate solutions to drive growth while creating and implementing tools that help make everything else in the company possible. The candidate needs to have a strong understanding of technical concepts, excellent attention to detail, data accuracy, and data analysis, strong verbal and written communication skills, and be self-motivated and operates with a high sense of urgency and a high level of integrity.

Key Skills & Traits

- Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field
- 3-5 years relevant professional experience
- Proficient in CI/CD tools like Jenkins, Puppet, CircleCI and RunDeck
- Experience in building large-scale, production grade, cloud native software
- Proficient in Terraform and cloudformation for managing AWS resources
- Strong knowledge in writing/maintaining Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
- Working experience in AWS technologies including but not limited to EC2, EKS, ECS,Lambda, S3 and RDS
- Strong hands-on experience in Kubernetes
- Strong Shell and/or Python development experience
- Proficient understanding of code versioning using Git (GitHub)
- Strong hands-on experience in Linux (RHEL & OL) and Automation first mindset
- Experience in distributed software monitoring, application performance monitoring & its visual representation.
- Communicating with vendors and customers in a courteous and professional manner with strong critical thinking
- Great communication skills
- Willingness to learn data integration technologies like Informatica, Airflow, EDI and Axway MFT
- Desire to work both independently as well as on a team to create solutions to complex problems for customers

Good To Have

Certifications

- AWS Certified SysOps Administrator (SOA-C02)/DevOps Engineer Professional (DOP-C01)

AND/OR

HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate

- Certified Kubernetes Application Developer (CKAD)
- Experience in data integration technologies like Informatica, Airflow, EDI/B2Bi and Axway MFT

What You'll Work On

As a Software Engineer II, you will play a crucial role in shaping, modernizing, and scaling Nike's DevOps platform while also driving innovation and automation within our ecosystem.

Platform Responsibilities

- Take ownership of building CI/CD pipelines for various data integration platforms
- Build controls and code quality checks within deployment pipelines
- Build custom scripts and automations which are deemed necessary for improving security, reliability, maintainability, availability, and performance for our platforms
- Participate on building self-service capabilities for customer
- Create and Update existing Puppet and Terraform code repos as needed
- Manage deployment mechanisms and deployments for 10+ teams, acting as a gate keeper
- Skill set on any monitoring or observability tool
- Participate in weekly rotation on call schedule if needed
- Be comfortable working in a culturally and geographically diverse organization
- Managing multiple competing priorities across 10+ unique and independent products
- Lead tasks including planning and execution for complex projects and programs
- Experience with participating in projects in a highly collaborative, multi-discipline development team environment
- Exposure to Agile, ideally a strong background with the SAFe methodology
- Skill set on any monitoring or observability tool