Job Description

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The solution architect role is based in the Pune Pscc center, at SAS R&D Pune facility. For this role, you will be a part of Retail SaaS Team. In this role, you will help architect, modify, improve, and support the platform running user-facing Software as a Service (SaaS) and Managed service offerings of SAS Retail solution running on Microsoft Azure. Using your expertise in engineering principles of automation and continuous improvement, you will help create an environment where availability, reliability, and security are threaded through the entire application life cycle, not treated as an afterthought. You will write new software as required to automate the building, testing, deployment, promotion, monitoring, alerting, and maintenance of managed SAS software.
Solution architect is accountable for the overall reliability of services running in our cloud production environments. You would be engaging with the software engineering team and infrastructure team at every level to directly embed or tag them for resolving production challenges.
Essential Technology Experience:

• 5 years of related experience with a technical Bachelor’s degree; or equivalent practical experience
• Experience with Python, Gitlab, OpenAPI and DevOps processes
• Experience with development and deployment in a hosted cloud environment, preferably Microsoft Azure
• Experience with distributed cloud service development, infrastructure, traffic management and architecture
• Experience with Kubernetes environments and understanding of multi-tenancy and security implications
• Experience working with container deployment and orchestration technologies with knowledge of fundamentals including service discovery, deployments, monitoring, scheduling, load balancing.
• Passion for automating common tasks and processes and dedicated to writing well tested and maintainable code
• You enjoy designing, developing, and maintaining distributed systems at scale in production
• Knowledge of standard methodologies related to security, performance, and disaster recovery
• Skilled in identifying performance bottlenecks, identifying anomalous system behavior, and resolving root cause of service issues

Experience of these items would be useful:

• Experience writing code in Java/GoLang
• Experience with Agile software development methodologies
• Experience developing a Kubernetes controller, operator, or platform component
• Operations experience with a production user-facing application
• Experience with thread dump and heap dump analysis, understanding of performance engineering concepts and tools like JMeter, JProfiler, Dyna Trace, etc. would be a huge plus.

We are a friendly team, and we’ll be offering you plenty of opportunities to develop your career. Interested? Then please get in touch to find out more!
Primary Responsibilities

• Collaborating closely with product stakeholders and engineering teams to deliver and scale secure, stable, observable applications
• Proactively writing monitors and alerts to ensure actionable data insights are provided to application and infrastructure teams
• Documenting to ensure the utility and maintainability of the platform and shared services
• Providing constructive feedback on your colleagues’ pull requests, and accepting constructive feedback on your own pull requests in return

CANDIDATE PROFILE
Background and Experience
SAS is seeking a solution architect with an experience of 4-5 years and above in Retail software domain. The candidate should have successful track record of working hosting organizations preferably developing infrastructure and software automation for global teams. Candidate should have excellent verbal and written communication skills and ability to address clearly and kindly with technical and non-technical colleagues.