Role: Principal Engineer – ACOS 

Reporting To: Tech Manager 

Location: Pune (Full time)

Experience (in years): Minimum 10 to 12 + years 

Number of Vacancies: 1 

Company Overview 

We help clients achieve competitive advantage through end-to-end digital transformation across Financial Services, Telecom, Life Sciences & Healthcare, and Product Engineering sectors. Our strength lies in combining deep engineering, data science, and design capabilities with strong domain expertise. 

Our mission is to: 

• Harness the transformational impact of emerging technologies 

• Bridge the gap between business and technology 

• Become an employer of choice by being employee-first in all processes and practices 

Role & Responsibilities 

As a Principal Engineer – ACOS, you will be a technical expert with deep knowledge of scalable and distributed application architecture. You will be responsible for: 

• Owning one or more modules/areas within the product architecture 

• Leading and clarifying technical requirements for new features 

• Designing feasible and high-quality module architectures within defined timelines 

• Obtaining necessary design approvals and driving implementation 

• Hands-on development of critical and complex bugs, enhancements, and features 

• Building lab topologies for rapid PoCs as required 

• Guiding and mentoring new team members 

ACOS Platform Coverage Areas 

• Logging infrastructure (Syslog, CEF, LEEF, etc.) 

• Metrics infrastructure (NetFlow, sFlow, Kafka, ACOS counter libraries and APIs) 

• Log and metrics integrations (Harmony/Kafka, Prometheus, Azure Monitor, AWS CloudWatch, vRealize, Fluentd, Splunk, QRadar, etc.) 

• Harmony (Management Plane) integrations (registrations, SaaS tunnel) 

• ZBAR (Adaptive Attack Rate Limiting for ADC) 

• Call Home 

Primary Skills 

• Expert-level C programming experience on Linux, RTOS, or similar real-time, high-availability embedded operating systems 

• Strong GDB debugging skills 

• Python programming expertise 

• Strong understanding of networking products, OSI stack, L2/L3/L4, and load balancers 

• Experience with TCP/IP, UDP/IP, socket programming, and standard IP protocols such as ICMP 

• Solid knowledge of algorithms and data structures 

• Understanding of control plane and data plane architectures in networking devices 

• Experience with source control tools (CVS, SVN, Git) 

• Knowledge of Kubernetes and cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, OCI 

• Ability to work in large, complex codebases and integrate third-party software 

Secondary Skills 

• GO programming (good to have) 

• Knowledge of rate-limiting, trending, standard deviation, and min/max calculation algorithms 

• Strong understanding of telemetry and data export mechanisms 

• Experience with message queues such as Kafka and RabbitMQ 

• Hands-on knowledge of Kafka-based telemetry exports 

• Experience with export mechanisms such as Syslog, sFlow, NetFlow, SNMP 

• Data encoding/decoding formats (Avro, sFlow, NetFlow); Google Protobuf is a plus 

• Experience with cloud analytics integrations including Azure Monitor, OCI Analytics, and AWS analytics frameworks 

Educational / Professional Qualification Required 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Engineering or equivalent 

• Master’s degree in Computer Engineering or equivalent is preferred 

Soft Skills / Competencies 

• Strong problem-solving mindset 

• Effective communication skills (written, verbal, listening, and presentation) 

• Excellent team player with experience working in global teams and organizations 

• Genuine interest in continuous learning and knowledge sharing