Required Qualifications

• 15+ years of experience in enterprise software engineering
• Proven experience building and operating SaaS platforms across cloud and on-prem environments
• Strong background in:
  • Building distributed systems
  • Kubernetes-based orchestration platforms on cloud and on-prem environment.
  • DevSecOps and automation.
• Hands-on mindset with the ability to design, code, deploy, debug, and optimize
• Experience in building enterprise systems in Industrial IoT, Edge computing domain is a strong plus

Key Responsibilities: –

1. Application Architecture & Hands-On Development

• Architect and develop large-scale, distributed, multi-tenant SaaS platforms using:
  • Java 17+, Spring Boot, ORM Framework, Golang
  • Concurrency, thread pools, transaction management
  • REST APIs (Swagger/OpenAPI), GraphQL and Oauth 2.0 experience.
  • Kafka-based event-driven systems
  • Elasticsearch for search & analytics
  • MySQL and MongoDB for transactional & document data
  • Containerization of application services using Docker
• Design systems with clear trade-offs considering:
  • Scalability, resiliency, high availability
  • Security and compliance
  • Cost optimization
  • Operational sustainability, especially in IoT and edge-heavy environments
• Apply appropriate design patterns (CQRS, Event Sourcing, Saga, Circuit Breaker, Bulkhead, etc.) based on domain needs.
• Drive application testability (JUnit, mocks, test containers), QA and performance testing using jMeter.
• Debug and troubleshoot production issues

2. UI Architecture Awareness & Leadership

• Understanding of modern frontend architectures using:
  • React, TypeScript, Material UI (MUI)
  • Micro-frontend architecture and deployment strategies
• Ability to review designs, guide and unblock UI teams, and ensure backend-frontend alignment.
• Work with UI team in customizing the application UI services as per on-prem requirement.

3. Kubernetes & Platform Engineering

• Deep, hands-on expertise with Kubernetes, including:
  • Kubernetes Gateway API & Ingress controllers
  • Certificate management (ACME, Internal CA, TLS lifecycle)
  • RBAC, NetworkPolicies, multi-namespace isolation
  • Helm charts, Kustomize, Crossplane.
  • Stateful workloads using StatefulSets, PVs, PVCs, backup & restore strategies
• GitOps and CI/CD platforms:
  • Infrastructure automation using Terraform and shell scripting.
  • Management of containarized services using Nexus, ECR, Containerd repositories.
  • Continuous integration using Jenkins and bitbucket pipeline.
  • Continuous deployment using ArgoCD and helm chart into Kubernetes cluster.
• DevSecOps & security tooling:
  • Kyverno (policy enforcement)
  • Trivy, Grype (image and dependency scanning)
  • Secure supply-chain practices
• Debug issues with deployment in Kubernetes cluster.

4. AWS Cloud Knowledge for SaaS Parity

• Strong understanding of AWS services to enable cloud → on-prem feature replication, including:
  • Route 53, ALB/NLB
  • Auto Scaling, AMIs, ECS, EKS
  • EBS, S3, Backup & Restore
  • Hybrid connectivity between cloud and on-prem
  • Ability to translate AWS-managed services into self-hosted or open-source equivalents for on-prem environments.

5. On-Premises & Air-Gapped Deployments

• Hands-on experience deploying and operating applications on MicroK8s clusters at scale in an air-gapped, customer-controlled environments
• Strong understanding of:
  • Load balancers, MetalLB
  • Local DNS, SMTP, LDAP, NTP servers
  • Offline artifact management and dependency control
• Package and ship enterprise software as VMDK, OVA, ISO, tar archives.
• Deploy and troubleshoot application deployment across VMware ESXi, Nutanix AHV and Proxmox virtualization platforms

6. Leadership & Stakeholder Management

• Lead cross-functional teams which includes Backend engineers, UI engineers, DevOps engineers and QA engineers
• Own end-to-end solution delivery, from requirements to production rollout.
• Drive requirement gathering and translate it into technical architecture and JIRA stories.
• Perform technology and design trade-off discussions with Product, Security and Business stakeholders.
• Mentor engineers, set technical standards, best practices, and architectural guardrails.