We are seeking a highly motivated and skilled Junior Cloud Engineer to join our cloud team at Openchip. In this role, you will be responsible for ensuring our chips can be orchestrated, observed, and managed from the cloud.
Key Responsibilities:
* Deliver Kubernetes Device Plug-ins and extensions to ensure our platforms and microservices running on them can be orchestrated and managed from the cloud.
* Implement workload placement methods to maximise the performance of Cloud and HPC workloads on our platforms.
* Delve cloud observability of our platforms by integrating into popular frameworks (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, etc.) ensuring our platforms meet Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) needs.
* Integrate with popular Fleet Management frameworks for managing fleets of our platforms running in Kubernetes Clusters.
* Work with ecosystem partners to integrate into their stacks (RedHat OpenShift, Canonical Kubernetes, SUSE Rancher, etc.).
* Utilize cloud services (compute, storage, databases, networking, etc.) to build scalable applications. Develop APIs and integrations for cloud-based services.
* Develop, test and integrate on our pre-silicon (simulators, emulation, FPGAs) and silicon environments.
* Implement and manage continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for cloud applications.
* Collaborate with DevOps teams to automate deployment processes and manage releases.
* Evaluate applications and infrastructure for security risks, adhering to best practices for identity and access management, encryption, and data protection.
* Stay up to date with cloud security standards and compliance regulations.
* Document technical specifications and system architecture.
* Contribute upstream where appropriate.
Requirements:
* Bachelor or Master's degree in a relevant field.
* Experience in the relevant field (1-3 years).
* Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, etc.).
* Experience with Kubernetes and Kubernetes device plug-ins.
* Experience with Docker.
* Experience delivering cloud-hosted microservices at scale.
* Strong knowledge of networking, databases, and distributed systems.
* Familiarity with IaC tools (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, etc.).
* Experience with observability tools (ELK, OpenTelemetry, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Grafana, AWS Cloud Watch, etc.).
* Solid knowledge about computer architecture (CPU, cache, memory hierarchy, buses, etc.).
* Experience with standard tools for source control (git), continuous integration, task management (Jira).
Desired Qualifications:
* Experience with service meshes (ISTIO, Envoy, LinkerD, etc.).
* Experience with lightweight Kubernetes (K3s, K0s, MicroK8s, MiniKube, MicroShift, etc.).
* Experience with RISC-V development at the assembly-language level.
* Experience with GitOps (Cluster + Apps + Policies).
* Experience with Kubeflow.
* Experience with kernel and/or device driver development.
* Experience with emulators and simulators (Qemu, Gem5, Spike).
* Team player: communicative and collaborative person who focuses on the outcome of the team above the individual needs.
* Curious about learning new technologies/stacks.
* Capable of within- and cross-team collaboration at the technical level.
* Can-do attitude, proactive and willing to step up and resolve any obstacle.
* Self-aware, self-starter, and self-motivated.