Platform Engineer

OS Engineer/Platform Engineer

Remote, India

NIKSUN is the recognized worldwide leader in making the Unknown Known, by using the next generation technology that revolutionizes the way networks and services are secured, protected, and managed. The company develops and deploys a complete range of award-winning forensics, compliance, security surveillance and performance management solutions for applications ranging from core infrastructures to edge and branch environments.

Responsibilities

• Work with other OS Engineers to design, develop, test, and maintain custom kernel and kernel modules
• Develop portable code base: Application, libraries, tools between various *nix variants
• Automate build and test environment
• In-depth code Analysis, code review of in-house code and 3rd party code
• Improve software stack, tooling, processes.
• Troubleshoot incidents across infrastructure, network, storage, levels of stack.
• Document findings, procedures for repetitive tasks and use them for automation.
• Evaluating new hardware servers, NICs
• Add support for new hardware, NIC, Storage controllers, JBODs
• Develop custom command Shell
• Custom ISO installer development

Requirements:

• 1-3 years of Linux device driver development experience
• 1-3 years of application development experience in Linux environments
• Thorough understanding of Linux kernel internals especially memory management, filesystem, irq, DMA, IOMMU, Networking etc.
• Proficient coding skills in one of the C, C++
• Hands-on coding skills in one of the scripting language Bash, Python, Perl
• Experience using and maintaining various build environments (auto make, CMAKE, Clang) and version control systems (GIT, CVS, SVN)
• Experience using various kernel and process debugging, profiling tools (Val grind, Gdb, kdb, perf etc.)
• Looking for immediate joiners

Required Skills and Traits:

• Can-do and will-do attitude
• Good written and oral communication skills
• Teamwork and collaboration
• Share knowledge and mentor team members

Nice to have Skills:

• Packet data-path acceleration framework knowledge (DPDK, netmap, PF_PACKET etc.)
• knowledge of Golang, Rust
• PCI device driver knowledge
• You know about docker, Kubernetes, cgroups, namespace
• You’ve worked on an application that runs on virtual environment
• Extra points if have committed to Linux kernel

Professional Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or computer engineering
• 1-3 years of experience in the fields of site reliability, platform engineering / DevSecOps

Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, creed, color, religion, sex, national origin, ancestry, marital status, affectional or sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, nationality, or protected veteran status