AT&T Hiring for Sr Specialist, Software Engineering – SRE / Devops at Hyderabad, India Full Time

At AT&T we’re redefining the future of communication by connecting people to greater possibility – with expertise, simplicity, and inspiration. At the heart of our purpose lies a diverse workforce of 200,000 people and a culture that aspires to serve customers first, act boldly, move faster, and win as one.

Our Product Development group, part of AT&T’s Technology Services (ATS) organization, is responsible for building software-based products, services, and platforms our customers love and need. Harnessing technology and rebuilding software expertise, the team inspires simplicity with projects that deliver revenue and cost savings opportunities.

Job Overview:

We are seeking a Principal Software Engineer to join our team to help us deliver great products and services that will delight our customers. You will be part of a team that’s responsible for ensuring all services within an area of focus are deployable and well-maintained.

An ideal candidate is excited to take the reins to improve system reliability, performance, and availability. You are passionate about improving the ease of deployment, creating faster turn-around on features and fixes. And you are always curious to find new ways to develop and deploy our services.

Key Responsibilities:

• Regular maintenance of Java-based Microservices, including maintenance, optimizations, and feature improvements

• Improve CI/CD of existing services to improve ease and speed at which changes can be made

• Identify architecture optimizations that improve cost and/or reliability

• Execute improvements collaboratively with service owners.

• Participate as an individual contributor in an agile team.

• Mentor teammates in software craftsmanship

• Troubleshoot complex system issues and work with other engineering teams to resolve them.

• Participate in postmortems for many services and use the insights to identify and implement improvements.

Qualifications:

• 10-14 years of software development experience

• Experience with CI/CD tooling, and improving the usability of CI/CD pipelines

• Proven track record of quickly jumping into existing codebases and getting operational knowledge

• Track record of maintaining and operating services in production.

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify and address complex system issues

• Track record maintaining and modernizing Maven-based builds.

• Experience running SpringBoot-based services in production

• Java and JVM ecosystem knowledge

• 5+ years of operating in cloud infrastructure (AWS, GCP, Azure)

• 2+ years of using modern observability tools and practice

• 4+ years of operating services on Kubernetes

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with demonstrated ability to present complex technical information in a clear manner to peers, developers, and senior leaders

Additional Technical Experience

• SQL and NoSQL Datastores (Mongo, Postgres, Redis)

• Kafka

• Observability Experience and Practices, preferred ELK Stack

• Prometheus for Monitoring

• Jenkins, Docker and Kubernetes (CI/CD)

• Migration of Services from On-Prem to Public Cloud

Ideal Backgrounds:

• DevOps

• DevSecOps

• SRE

• Full Stack Engineers with a Backend Focus

AT&T will consider for employment qualified applicants in a manner consistent with the requirements of federal, state and local laws

We expect employees to be honest, trustworthy, and operate with integrity. Discrimination and all unlawful harassment (including sexual harassment) in employment is not tolerated. We encourage success based on our individual merits and abilities without regard to race, color, religion, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, disability, marital status, citizenship status, military status, protected veteran status or employment status