Principal Architect, SRE, Cloud Trust Operations 

Greetings! Informatica is looking for a highly motivated Principal Architect, SRE Intern to work with our Observability team responsible to monitor all our Infrastructure Systems, Products hosted on Cloud. The ideal candidate should have experience developing large scale distributed systems, good troubleshooting skills, create ML models from data ingested from various systems that can be consumed by our customers. 

Responsibilities and Day to Day Duties

• Build and Operate large scale ELK clusters deployed in multiple Cloud Providers
• Providing guidance to others on creating new and operating existing ELK, Kubernetes clusters
• Driving initiatives to evolve our current platform to increase efficiency and keep it in line with current standards and best practices.
• Rollout GitOps to manage many Elasticsearch Clusters to ensure zero downtime, highly available during upgrades and maintenance activities
• Publish Automated Reports on Cluster Operations to leadership.
• Perform incident/alert troubleshooting, problem analysis and provide high quality solutions to technical issues
• Manage RCA, Incident Process, and Risk Analysis of the cloud services
• On-call support in cases of issues on production environment
• Work with geographically dispersed team
• Mentoring junior engineers on technical, architectural, design and related issues
• Driving successful POCs, involving latest cloud-based technologies.

You are an ideal candidate if you:

• Have extensive experience building scalable platforms in a production environment.
• Have experience with logging and telemetry services, specifically ELK, Grafana
• Have experience in AWS, Azure, GCP
• Able to code to a good standard with any programming language, such as Python, Go, Ruby
• Experience writing infrastructure as code using tools such as Terraform, CloudFormation, Chef
• Comfortable with supporting and operating high availability Cloud services and provide on-call support for Sev1 incidents on production and critical development/QA cloud environments.
• Understanding of CI/CD principles, Linux fundamentals, networking concepts and IP protocols
• You are self-motivated with strong problem solving and troubleshooting skills.
• Strong knowledge in reinforcement learning (OpenAI, PyTorch, Tensorflow, etc), simulation/model predictive control

Qualifications:

• BS degree in Computer Science or equivalent
• 8+ years of Systems administrations or enterprise software development or operations
• 5+ years of experience in managing Cloud operation production environments
• 3+ years of experience in full implementation of building and managing Elasticsearch, Logstash Clusters
• 3+ years of experience working in real-time data streaming tools such as Kafka, Kinesis, etc
• 3+ years of experience in building and operating Kubernetes clusters
• 3+ years of experience in working with container runtime such as Docker, Containerd, CRI-O
• Prior MLOps experience using popular MLOps frameworks like Kubeflow, MLFlow, Pachyderm, etc)
• Experience in building dashboards in Kibana, Grafana
• Experience with Production level monitoring and alerting with tools like Prometheus, Grafana
• Experience with cloud automated deployment tools such as Chef, Ansible, Spinnaker and Puppet is a plus
• Prior experience in performing or participating in compliance and security audits is a plus
• Prior experience in defining, configuring, and implementing disaster recovery process
• Ability to perform data related benchmarking, performance analysis and tuning.
• Strong interpersonal and team communications skills 
• Experience with project management and workflow tools such as Agile, Jira, ServiceDesk, etc.