Production Engineer I

Job Description

This position will be part of a Production Engineering team that manages, maintains and supports production systems running either in Yahoo-owned data center or in a public cloud. learn and grow rapidly in order to be able to manage the scale at Yahoo. The PE teams in Bangalore look at 12x7x365 vs. 24 hours of coverage of critical production systems. This also includes revenue-critical systems/applications as most of the systems have a direct or indirect revenue bearing. Along with cross-functional collaboration with Engg. / Product / OC / Site Operations - he/she should interface/collaborate with PE counterparts in other geographical locations (US/EU) in order to collectively support production systems in a true 24x7x365 fashion. Educational Qualifications Bachelor s or Master s programme Graduate. (preferably CSE/ IT/ECE/EE/AI stream) Desired Strong knowledge of computer science fundamentals. Must Have at least 1 year of Hands on Experience of working with Production Systems/Environments preferable with Public Clouds setups Proficient knowledge in data structures and algorithms, Unix, networks, operating systems and database systems (like MySQL). Knowledge of one or more languages (Python / Shell / Perl / PHP/Java). Possess strong troubleshooting skills both at the system (Linux) and application (Java, Node.js, PHP) level. Have strong analytical and problem-solving skills to diagnose and resolve system and application issues. Hands on Exposure to Public Cloud providers Infra management tools ( specifically AWS ) like Cloudformation, Terraform etc. Strong oral and written communication skills. Your Typical Day Together with the global team, you will: Proactively look out for issues in production and mitigate them to the best of your ability. Build tools that will be used to automate away manual work at scale, by teams across the company. Assist with operational work in order to keep things running smoothly in production and non production environments. Proactively document processes, systems and their associated configurations. Participate in change and release management activities. Own the systems that you re responsible for. Take part in learning activities for career growth.