Description:

Rackspace is hiring for a Software Engineer IV position, which is a full-time remote role based in India.
In this role, you will be responsible for designing and creating a database from the ground up, rather than maintaining existing systems.
You will support high complexity customers and internal teams as needed.
Collaboration with other teams will be essential for developing tools for systems automation.
You will work alongside multiple teams to ensure that Rackspace infrastructure and customer applications function harmoniously together.

Requirements:

Candidates must have 6+ years of software engineering experience on mission-critical, enterprise-level systems.
A minimum of 6+ years of experience with Linux systems, ideally with Ubuntu, SUSE, and CentOS, managing large-scale complex applications is required.
Professional experience of 6+ years in Python is necessary to automate infrastructure workflows.
Demonstrated experience in a hybrid (cloud, on-prem) environment is essential.
Experience with configuration management tools such as Ansible, Salt, or similar to manage infrastructure as code is required.
Candidates should have experience working with cloud environments, primarily AWS.
Experience using Infrastructure-As-Code to build large-scale environments is necessary.
A solid understanding of software development methodologies and practices, including agile development, continuous integration, and continuous delivery is required.
Experience with monitoring technologies like Sensu, Nagios, Icinga, Grafana, and Prometheus is necessary.
Understanding of Kubernetes, container lifecycle, and troubleshooting is required.
Hands-on knowledge of high-availability approaches such as load balancing, failover, clustering, and disaster recovery is preferred.
Container management/orchestration experience is preferred.
Experience using LXD system containers is preferred.

Rackspace offers a range of benefits, which can be explored in detail on their benefits page.
The company is recognized as a best place to work by Fortune, Forbes, and Glassdoor, indicating a positive work environment.
Rackspace is committed to providing equal employment opportunities and welcomes applicants from diverse backgrounds.
The company supports employees with disabilities or special needs by offering accommodations as required.