Platform Engineer

About Riverbed Technology

Riverbed, the leader in AI observability, helps organizations optimize their user’s experiences by leveraging AI automation for the prevention, identification, and resolution of IT issues. With over 20 years of experience in data collection and AI and machine learning, Riverbed’s open and AI-powered observability platform and solutions optimize digital experiences and greatly improves IT efficiency. Riverbed also offers industry-leading Acceleration solutions that provide fast, agile, secure acceleration of any app, over any network, to users anywhere. Together with our thousands of market-leading customers globally – including 95% of the FORTUNE 100 – we are empowering next-generation digital experiences.

Position: Platform Engineer

Location Preference: Hybrid, Cluj; or Home Office, RO

We are seeking an enthusiastic, high energy Platform Engineer to join the team and help us build the next generation of NetProfiler and Flow Gateway products.

The Riverbed NetProfiler and Flow Gateway product family analyze millions of network flows every minute, saving the data in a highly optimized proprietary database and performing real-time analysis. Real-time analytics detect network operations and security anomalies to alert network administrators before customers are calling for help. With highly configurable dashboards and flexible traffic reporting capabilities, NetProfiler is a go-to network visibility tool for network managers at Fortune 500 companies around the world.

What You Will Do

• Design, build and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins
• Develop and maintain automation scripts in Python/Bash and, where applicable, Perl
• Manage, configure and troubleshoot systems based on Red Hat or RHEL-based distributions (e.g. CentOS, AlmaLinux)
• Build and maintain RPM packages
• Create and maintain Docker images to support application deployment
• Automate infrastructure provisioning using tools like Packer, Ansible and Terraform
• Monitor system performance, availability and security
• Collaborate with development, QA to support application development
• Implement best practices in terms of security, infrastructure as code, automation and configuration management

What Makes You An Ideal Candidate

• Jenkins: Hands-on experience with pipeline scripting
• Python: Proficiency in scripting and tool development
• RPM packaging: Experience with building, signing and maintaining RPM packages
• Docker: Experience in building, tagging and managing Docker images
• RedHat-based Systems: Experience in system administration and shell scripting
• Perl: Experience is a plus; alternatively, a strong foundation in OOP principles and ability to understand Perl codebase is acceptable
• Familiarity with version control systems like Git
• Familiarity with Issue and Project tracking like Jira
• Understanding of basic networking concepts, DNS and firewalls

Preferred Qualifications

• Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS, Azure)
• Familiarity with VMware ESXi
• Understanding of monitoring and logging tools (e.g Prometheus, Grafana)
• Exposure to infrastructure as code practices and tools

What We Offer

Our employee benefits including flexible workplace policies, employee resource groups, learning and development resources, career progression pathways, and community engagement initiatives are some of the reasons why we have had great success in bringing in new talent. In addition, our global employee wellness programs are crafted to support the physical, emotional, and financial well-being of our employees.

Benefits & Perks vary by Country.

About Riverbed

With a 20-year history of innovation, Riverbed is agile, yet proven, and we are disrupting the market with differentiated solutions that enable our customers to deliver secure, seamless digital experiences and accelerate enterprise performance While we are a ‘customer-first’ company, we are all about our people with a shared commitment to creating a global impact. We bring our best selves to work and pursue excellence, trust, and respect for one another. We welcome and encourage transparency and open communication throughout the company. We strive to be an inclusive, fair, and enjoyable workplace for our people globally and care about their wellbeing. We are committed to our people, partners, and customers while supporting the communities where we work and live. It’s the Power of WE that binds us together.

Riverbed is an equal employment opportunity/Affirmative Action (EEO/AA) employer and provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, physical disability (including HIV and AIDS), mental disability, medical condition, pregnancy or child birth (including breast feeding), sexual orientation, genetics, genetic information, marital status, veteran status or any other basis protected by and in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.

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Key skills/competency

• CI/CD
• Jenkins
• Python
• Red Hat Linux
• Docker
• Ansible
• Terraform
• Scripting
• System Administration
• Network Monitoring