Senior Platform Engineer

Job description

We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design and maintain internal platforms that empower development teams with self-service capabilities for deploying, monitoring and managing applications at scale.

Responsibilities

- Design, build and maintain internal platforms that provide development teams with self-service capabilities for deploying, monitoring and managing applications at scale

- Develop and maintain standardized tools, frameworks and libraries to streamline development workflows and promote best practices across multiple teams

- Ensure seamless integration of various development tools and services within the platform ecosystem to support a large number of development teams

- Improve the overall developer experience by providing robust documentation, training and support for platform tools and services

- Implement practices to ensure high availability, reliability and performance of the platforms, supporting the needs of numerous development teams

- Utilize DORA metrics (Deployment Frequency, Lead Time for Changes, Change Failure Rate, Mean Time to Recovery) to measure and improve the performance of development and operational processes

- Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies to continuously enhance platform functionality and developer productivity

- Collaborate with development, operations and security teams to ensure seamless integration and support of applications

- Provide technical guidance and support to resolve platform-related issues and improve overall system health

Requirements

- At least 3 years of related experience in platform engineering or a related role

- Understanding of software development processes, CI/CD pipelines and DevOps practices

- Proficiency in cloud technologies (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud) and containerization (Docker, Kubernetes)

- Experience with infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, Bicep) and GitOps tools (Flux, ArgoCD)

- Familiarity with tools like Crossplane, Pulumi and AWS Controllers for Kubernetes (ACK) for managing cloud resources

- Experience with Internal Developer Platforms (IDPs) such as Backstage, Humanitec and OpsLevel to enhance developer productivity

- Understanding of and experience working with high availability, high performance, multi-data center systems and hybrid cloud environments

- Skills in scripting with Bash, Shell and Python

- Ability to troubleshoot complex issues ranging from system resources to application stack traces

- Good English communication skills (speaking, writing and reading)