Senior Advisory Software Engineer
Pitney Bowes16 hours ago
Pune, IndiaSenior / Staff+
Responsibilities
- Evaluate critical production architectures across AWS and on-premises data centers for single points of failure, capacity risks, and resilience gaps.
- Validate high availability, failover, backup and recovery, RTO/RPO adherence, and multi-Availability Zone and multi-Region disaster recovery mechanisms.
- Design and lead chaos engineering, resilience testing, and game-day exercises, converting findings into hardening actions.
- Provide architectural guidance on AWS services, EKS/Kubernetes, containers, networking, and database reliability.
- Standardize runbooks and operational procedures and lead incident investigations, post-incident reviews, root cause analysis, and permanent remediation.
- Champion observability across New Relic, Grafana, LogicMonitor, Site24x7, Prometheus, and CloudWatch.
- Advise leadership on reliability strategy, risk posture, and resilience roadmaps while mentoring SRE and engineering team members.
- Drive automation and infrastructure-as-code using Terraform, Ansible, CloudFormation, scripting, and JSM automation.
Requirements
- B.E., B.Tech, MCA, or equivalent qualification in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 8–13 years of hands-on experience in infrastructure, cloud architecture, and/or site reliability engineering, including large-scale AWS production systems.
- Deep expertise in AWS, the AWS Well-Architected Framework, compute, networking, storage, IAM, Regions, Availability Zones, and multi-AZ or multi-Region architectures.
- Proven experience designing and validating disaster recovery strategies, including Backup & Restore, Pilot Light, Warm Standby, Multi-Site Active/Active, failover, replication, and DR drills.
- Strong production experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and ideally Amazon EKS, plus database high availability, replication, recovery, and performance.
- Practical experience with chaos engineering, failure-mode analysis, observability, monitoring, ITSM, automation, infrastructure as code, scripting, and infrastructure CI/CD pipelines.
- Excellent analytical, investigative, written, verbal, and interpersonal communication skills, with the ability to influence engineers and leadership.
- Preferred qualifications include AWS Solutions Architect – Professional, CKA/CKAD, or equivalent certifications; on-premises data center operations; formal DR programs; enterprise resilience frameworks; security tooling; AIOps; and mentoring experience.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement with three days per week in the Pune office.
- Comprehensive global benefits and wellbeing programs.
- Inclusive environment, career development opportunities, and challenging opportunities within a transforming organization.
Tech Stack
Categories
DevOpsSite Reliability
About Pitney Bowes
Pitney Bowes builds software, equipment, and services for shipping, mailing, and commerce operations used by businesses and government, from SMBs to large enterprises. Its offerings include SaaS shipping platforms and APIs, postage meters and mailing supplies, presort and cross-border e-commerce logistics, and related financing services; founded in 1920 and headquartered in Shelton, Connecticut, it is a public company listed on the NYSE.