Sr Staff SW Engineer

Sr Staff SW Engineer - Platform - India - Hybrid/Remote

Location: Guindy, Chennai, Tamil Nadu

Gigamon provides an intelligent architecture for enterprises, data centers, and service providers around the globe. Our technology empowers infrastructure architects, managers, and operators with pervasive and dynamic intelligent visibility of traffic across both physical and virtual environments without affecting the performance or stability of the production network.

We are seeking a Senior Staff Engineer for our Appliance Team. The candidate will be working as part of a small, dynamic team and will be responsible for designing, coding, and unit-testing system-level software which provides functionality and APIs related to various environments. The ideal candidate should be a Linux Architect with extensive working knowledge of Networking and a variety of Virtualization environments along with proficiency in C, C , Bash, and Python. Experience in Public Cloud platforms (AWS, Azure) is a must and with a good understanding of Cloud Deployments and Containers. The candidate must showcase experience in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevOps. The successful candidate must be comfortable working in a fast-paced environment.

• Design, code and test APIs that allow the configuration and monitoring of networking in a virtualized environment.
• Design, code and test the building and packaging of applications for various virtualization environments.
• Evaluate and maintain security infrastructure.
• Design and implement automation and orchestration solutions.
• Work closely with the engineering team to design and implement feature specifications.
• Support and maintain developed code through system tests and customer deployments.
• Contribute to overall product requirements and design.
• Act as a mentor to junior members of the Systems Engineering team.
• Collaborate across teams to define requirements and dependencies.
• Investigate and present technology solutions to improve performance.
• Identify gaps and opportunities for improvement of existing solutions.

• Minimum BS in CS or related field with 10 yrs. of system software development experience.
• Expert in C & C coding.
• Expert in Linux and bash scripting.
• Solid understanding of DNS solutions, Active Directory, and other IDMs.
• Expert in developing system level software in Linux/Unix.
• Experience with Flavors of Linux, preferably RedHat based distros.
• Experience in building and integrating software across different distributions of Linux.
• Experience in configuration and testing various security requirements.
• Experience with VMware, Hyper-V, AWS, Azure, or KVM.
• Experience designing and implementing solutions using Docker.
• Experience in cloud in a box experience: maintaining a micro-service solution.
• Experience with infrastructure orchestration tools like Terraform.
• Experience in evaluating and testing various security requirements.
• Strong debugging, root cause analysis, and troubleshooting skills.
• Believe that Infrastructure as Code is the right way to manage development systems.
• Proactive problem solver with great attention to detail.
• Excellent written/oral communication skills and strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Expertise in building and monitoring software projects using Agile methodologies.
• Understand legacy OS systems and conduct a thorough assessment of the unsupported OS systems to understand their current security posture and potential vulnerabilities.
• Experience analyzing scan results to assess compliance with established policies, identifying areas of non-compliance or vulnerabilities that need remediation.

• Experience with OpenSSL, Apache, and Tomcat configuration.
• Experience with at least two of ESXi, OpenStack, KVM, AWS, Azure, Google Cloud, HyperV, Oracle Cloud.
• Experience with Vagrant, Ansible, Docker, Packer, AMIs, OVFs, ISOs, and QCOWs.
• Experience with CloudInit, CloudConfig, and associated technologies.
• Experience with CVE, CIS, and FIPS.
• Experience writing Linux device drivers.
• Experience with BIOS and boot code.
• Preferably certified in AWS/Azure/Kubernetes/VMWare etc.

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If your experience and skills closely match our job description but may not necessarily fulfill all requirements, please still apply. Gigamon is on a continued mission to grow and scale an innovative organization. We believe this is best achieved by hiring, celebrating, and respecting people with diverse backgrounds, skills, perspectives, and experiences.

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