Platform engineer

The Senior Engineer role plans, designs, develops and tests high-quality, innovative and fully performing software systems or applications for software enhancements and new products.

Key responsibilities include:

• Contribute to full software development life cycle

• Write maintainable, extensible, tested code, while complying with coding standards

• Produce specifications, documentation, and diagrams to optimize operations

• Continuously Integrate and deliver software components into a fully functional software system

• Coordinate and or support

• Troubleshoot, debug and upgrade existing systems

CAREER LEVEL SUMMARY

• Proficiency:
Fully mastered in immediate function/domain and has developed competent skills in complimentary functions or domains. Capability and eagerness to mentor junior members in mastered domain knowledge.

• Direction:
Is autonomous, working on a day-to-day basis without direct supervision. Adopts standard policies, procedures and processes and recommends or proposes changes or adaptations to align with changing best practices.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 8+ years of experience

• Experience utilizing Terraform for IaC infrastructure automation

• Strong backend experience deploying monolithic and microservice based production applications utilizing automated pipelines.

• AWS experience (specifically in services standard serverless and microservices based deployments) supporting L3+ production applications.

• Experience building and managing secure OCI containers.

• Experience deploying and maintaining Kubernetes based services (deployments, service, ingress, service mesh, integration with underlying AWS services.

• Experience building re-distributable Kubernetes packages utilizing Helm or Kustomize.

• Experience with automated build, test, deployment and day2 operational requirements.

• Ability to lead technical conversations and covey ideas to a less technical audience or audience from a different discipline

• Desire to collaborate across teams and organizational boundaries

Nice to Have

• Nice to have - Experience in building streaming and batch data pipelines using Big Data technologies (Spark, Flink, Kinesis, Kafka, etc) on large scale unstructured data sets

• Experience coding with either Python or Java

• Experience defining and implementing platform capabilities for broad consumption