Cloud Senior Software Engineer

Ixia (NASDAQ: XXIA) provides testing, visibility and security solutions, strengthening applications across physical and virtual networks for enterprises and governments, service providers and network equipment manufacturers.

Work as part of a team delivering Ixia’s cloud products. This team requires strong technical candidates with a proven ability to develop large-scale applications in a cloud-based environment. Candidate needs to be able to work effectively in a fast paced and highly innovative environment.

Required

• Strong experience developing for cloud based platforms like Amazon Web Services, or Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, RackSpace, etc.
• Familiar with the concept and development of Docker containers and micro services
• Understanding of Services­Oriented Architecture (SOA and REST)
• Very good understanding of large scale distributed systems
• Experience building sophisticated and highly automated infrastructure
• Management of continuous integration servers like Jenkins, Bamboo and TeamCity
• Proficient in Javascript. Knowledge of Scala and/or Java desired
• Strong scripting skills, i.e., Python, Bash, Ruby, Perl, etc.
• Experience with revision control source code repositories (Git, Perforce, SVN)
• Strong oral and written communication skills
• Ability to think clearly, analyze quantitatively, solve problems, scope technical requirements and prioritize work
• BS/MS in Computer Science with 7+ years of relevant experience

Preferred

• Experience with Chef, Puppet, Salt, or Ansible in production environments
• Experience with ElasticSearch
• Knowledge of best practices and IT operations in an always-up, always-available service
• Working knowledge of HTML5
• Understanding and experience with code deployment (tagging).
• Familiarity with Serverless Computing Technologies like Amazon Lambda, Azure Functions, etc. is a plus
• Linux and Windows­based systems administration skills in a Cloud or Virtualized environment