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Junior Cloud Engineer

  • Permanent
  • Full time
  • Hybrid (Ireland)
  • SOFTWARE AND AI

The Role:

Openchip is building exciting new RISC-V chips with HPC and AI acceleration. As a Junior Cloud Engineer, you will actively participate within our cloud team to ensure our chips can be orchestrated, observed, and managed from the cloud by delivering Kubernetes device plug-ins, exposing to observability stacks, and integrating with cloud hosted fleet management frameworks.


Key responsibilities:

1. Make independent technical contributions to help their team deliver its commitments. In particular:

– Deliver Kubernetes Device Plug-ins and extensions to ensure our platforms and microservices running on them can be orchestrated and managed from the cloud.

– Integrate on cloud hosted Kubernetes (AKS, EKS, GKE, etc.), local upstream downstream (RedHat OpenShift, SUSE Ranches, etc.), and light-weight Kubernetes distributions (K3s, MicroShift, etc.).

– Implement workload placement methods to maximise the performance of Cloud and HPC workloads on our platforms.

– Deliver cloud observability of our platforms by integrating into popular frameworks (OpenTelemetry, Prometheus, etc.) ensuring our platforms meet Reliability, Availability, and Serviceability (RAS) needs.

– Integrate with popular Fleet Management frameworks for managing fleets of our platforms running in Kubernetes Clusters.

– Work with eco system partners to integrate into their stacks (RedHat OpenShift, Canonical Kubernetes, SUSE Rancher, etc.).

– Utilize cloud services (compute, storage, databases, networking, etc.) to build scalable applications. Develop APIs and integrations for cloud-based services.

– Develop, test and integrate on our pre-silicon (simulators, emulation, FPGAs) and silicon environments.

– Implement and manage continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines for cloud applications.

– Collaborate with DevOps teams to automate deployment processes and manage releases.

– Ensure applications and infrastructure are secure, adhering to best practices for identity and access management, encryption, and data protection.

– Stay up to date with cloud security standards and compliance regulations.

– Document technical specifications and system architecture.

– Contribute upstream where appropriate.

2. Interact with colleagues across projects to unblock issues, or to reach consensus on technical topics. In particular:

– Work with hardware teams, influencing hardware/software co-design.

– Work with teams developing compilers, firmware, AI stacks, and middleware, and contribute as necessary.

– Collaborate with colleagues through code reviews, bug triaging, design documents,. . .

– Contribute to shared team responsibilities (CI failure triaging, documentation, code fixits, rotations...).


Qualifications

- Bachelor or Master’s degree in a relevant field.

- Experience in the relevant field (1-3yr).

- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python, Java, Go, or JavaScript/TypeScript with Node.js.

- Hands-on experience with cloud platforms (AWS, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, etc.).

- Experience with Kubernetes and Kubernetes device plug-ins.

- Experience with Docker.

- Experience delivering cloud-hosted microservices at scale.

- Strong knowledge of networking, databases, and distributed systems.

- Familiarity with IaC tools (Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, etc.).

- Experience with observability tools (ELK, Open Telemetry, InfluxDB, Prometheus, Grafana, AWS Cloud Watch, etc.).

- Solid knowledge about computer architecture (CPU, cache, memory hierarchy, buses, etc.).

- Experience with standard tools for source control (git), continuous integration, task management (Jira).


Desired qualifications:

- Experience with service meshs (ISTIO, Envoy, LinkerD, etc.).

- Experience with lightweight Kubernetes (K3s, K0s, MicroK8s, MiniKube, MicroShift, etc.).

- Experience with RISC-V development at the assembly-language level.

- Experience with GitOps (Cluster + Apps + Policies).

- Experience with Kubeflow. • Experience with kernel and/or device driver development.

- Experience with emulators and simulators (Qemu, Gem5, Spike).


Soft skills:

- Team player: communicative and collaborative person who focuses on the outcome of the team above the individual needs.

- Curious about learning new technologies/stacks.

- Capable of within- and cross-team collaboration at the technical level.

- Can-do attitude, proactive and willing to step up and resolve any obstacle.

- Self-aware, self-starter, and self-motivated.


We are looking for outstanding people willing to join our mission to change this industry and help to build a better world.

If you feel identified with Openchip, please contact us. We can offer a competitive compensation package in a flexible work schema that will help you to keep a balance between your personal and professional life.

At Openchip & Software Technologies S.L., we believe a diverse and inclusive team is the key to groundbreaking ideas. We foster a work environment where everyone feels valued, respected, and empowered to reach their full potential – regardless of race, gender, ethnicity, sexual orientation, or gender identity.