Virtasant Inc.

Future openings INDIA - SRE - Compute (Linux, Kubernetes, Containers)

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5 months ago
Remote, United StatesMid Level

Responsibilities

  • Provide high-touch onboarding and technical support to internal customers using the compute platform.
  • Respond through Slack, community forums, and ticketing systems, serving as the first engineering support line for Kubernetes and container issues.
  • Troubleshoot Kubernetes workloads, scheduling, services, networking, and RBAC.
  • Investigate Docker containers, images, builds, runtime environments, and Linux server issues.
  • Diagnose Linux processes, services, filesystems, resource constraints, and networking problems.
  • Use tools including tcpdump, ss, strace, traceroute, dig, journalctl, top, and htop for system investigation.
  • Write technical tickets, incident summaries, runbooks, knowledge-base articles, and documentation improvements.
  • Participate in postmortems and drive follow-up actions.
  • Collaborate with SRE, Platform, and Engineering teams to escalate issues, identify platform bugs, and propose improvements.
  • Provide structured feedback based on support trends and contribute tools, scripts, and processes that improve support efficiency.

Requirements

  • Strong Linux fundamentals covering processes, services, filesystems, and kernel basics.
  • Strong Linux networking knowledge, including TCP/IP, routing, DNS, load balancers, and firewalls.
  • Hands-on Kubernetes experience, preferably beyond managed cloud platforms.
  • Strong Docker and containerization expertise.
  • Experience providing production support for large-scale systems.
  • Ability to write and understand Python scripts or similar languages.
  • Ability to review pull requests, read developer code, and communicate with development teams.
  • Strong Git proficiency.
  • Exceptional written and spoken English with clear technical communication.
  • Strong organization, attention to detail, follow-through, problem-solving, analytical thinking, and structured debugging skills.
  • Ability to work independently with distributed teams.
  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or a similar engineering discipline is preferred.
  • Experience supporting private cloud or internal platform engineering teams is preferred.
  • Familiarity with Spark, Kafka, or distributed systems is preferred.

Benefits

  • Remote-first work from anywhere with autonomy and respect for working time.
  • Collaboration with a global team across more than 130 countries.
  • Continuous learning and exposure to systems across clients and sectors.
  • Trust-based, diverse, and globally distributed work environment.
  • Opportunity to solve technically complex problems affecting systems used by hundreds of millions of people.

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