Platform Engineer

Job Description

Role Overview

We are looking for a talented Platform Engineer (or Site Reliability Engineer) to join our engineering team. You'll be joining a small-sized team in charge of a wide range of tasks surrounding everything infrastructure-related, from building new infrastructure components to helping developers deliver reliable and performant services.

We automate many tasks and integrate automated tests to ensure good quality of our tools and processes.

As a Platform engineer, you be involved with

• Configure, automate, deploy and evolve the infrastructure used to run our production and acceptance environments in the cloud.
• Provide the tooling and automation to support several dozens of services developed internally, help the engineering team to understand and improve their services and alert them when things go wrong.
• Improve our continuous delivery pipelines and make it even easier for developers to release reliable and safely their changes into production.
• Administrate the different databases and components running in production, debug them when they have problems, ensure they have good performances, and understand, prepare and minimise the impact when they fail.
• Integrate security changes into our delivery process, and improve the security of our systems.

As a Platform engineer you must have the following

• You have a good experience developing applications with Python and/or Go
• You have a good experience with automation and Infrastructure as Code
• You have a good experience with at least one cloud provider (AWS, GCP, Azure, etc.)
• You are familiar with container orchestration technologies (such as Hashi Corp Nomad or Kubernetes)
• You are familiar with GNU/Linux-based systems
• You worked with a microservices architecture and are aware of the trade-offs and challenges to operate them
• You manage distributed systems and databases, and understand how to get the most of them.