Custom Software Engineer

Project Role: Custom Software Engineer

Project Role Description: Develop custom software solutions to design, code, and enhance components across systems or applications. Use modern frameworks and agile practices to deliver scalable, high-performing solutions tailored to specific business needs.

Must have skills: Kubernetes

Good to have skills: Java, MySQL, GitHub

Minimum 7.5 year(s) of experience is required

Educational Qualification: 15 years full time education

Summary:

As a Custom Software Engineer, you will engage in the development of custom software solutions that involve designing, coding, and enhancing various components across systems or applications. Your typical day will include collaborating with cross-functional teams to implement modern frameworks and agile practices, ensuring the delivery of scalable and high-performing solutions that meet specific business requirements. You will also participate in code reviews, contribute to architectural discussions, and continuously seek opportunities for improvement in the software development lifecycle.

Roles & Responsibilities:

Act as a Subject Matter Expert (SME).

Collaborate with and manage the team to perform effectively.

Take responsibility for team decisions.

Engage with multiple teams and contribute to key decisions.

Provide solutions to problems for both immediate and cross-functional teams.

Mentor junior team members to enhance their skills and knowledge.

Facilitate communication between technical and non-technical stakeholders to ensure alignment on project goals.

Professional & Technical Skills:

Must Have Skills:

Proficiency in Kubernetes.

Strong understanding of container orchestration and management.

Kubernetes administration and troubleshooting.

Cloud experience, preferably Azure Cloud and Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS).

CI/CD experience, especially with GitHub / GitHub Actions.

Strong scripting/automation skills (Bash, Git workflows).

Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

Familiarity with CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices.

Backend & API Expertise:

Minimum 8 years experience working on backend systems for product availability APIs (store/warehouse).

Key Skills: Java, Microservices, Kubernetes, GitHub, Azure, SQL.

Expertise in software architecture for high availability, low latency, highly resilient, and large-scale microservices serving large datasets (
100M rows).

Secondary Skills (Good to Have)
Git Ops practices and tools such as ArgoCD.

Experience with open-source platform tools like Kyverno, Open Telemetry, NGINX.

Monitoring and observability tools such as Splunk or Grafana.

Additional exposure to GitHub Actions, Splunk, GitHub.

Additional Information:

The candidate should have a minimum of 7.5 years of experience in Kubernetes.

This position is based at our Gurugram office.

A 15 years full-time education is required.

15 years full time education

About Accenture

Accenture is a leading global professional services company that helps the world’s leading businesses, governments and other organizations build their digital core, optimize their operations, accelerate revenue growth and enhance citizen services—creating tangible value at speed and scale. We are a talent- and innovation-led company with approximately 791,000 people serving clients in more than 120 countries. Technology is at the core of change today, and we are one of the world’s leaders in helping drive that change, with strong ecosystem relationships. We combine our strength in technology and leadership in cloud, data and AI with unmatched industry experience, functional expertise and global delivery capability. Our broad range of services, solutions and assets across Strategy & Consulting, Technology, Operations, Industry X and Song, together with our culture of shared success and commitment to creating 360° value, enable us to help our clients reinvent and build trusted, lasting relationships. We measure our success by the 360° value we create for our clients, each other, our shareholders, partners and communities.
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