The Senior Platform Engineer designs and maintains digital tech infrastructure, collaborates with teams, leads automation, tests and debugs software, and provides technical support.
Job Purpose and Impact
Key Accountabilities
Qualifications
- The Senior Professional, Platform Engineering job designs, develops and maintains digital technology infrastructure to support information technology applications and services. With minimal supervision, this job collaborates with cross functional teams to define, design and implement new features to meet user needs and business goals, and upgrade existing platforms to improve performance and functionality through writing clean, efficient and scalable code and troubleshooting and debugging complex issues. This job also participates in code reviews to maintain high code quality and share knowledge with platform engineering team members.
Key Accountabilities
- SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: Designs and develops high quality software solutions by writing clean, maintainable and efficient codes.
- AUTOMATION: Leads the application of internal software deployment platform, continuous integration or continuous delivery pipeline and twelve factor development methodology to automate the deployment process, ensuring smooth and reliable releases.
- COLLABORATION: Partners with cross functional team of product managers, designers and other engineers to gather complex requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs.
- TESTING & DEBUGGING: Writes and maintains complex unit tests and integration tests, and performs debugging to maintain the quality and performance of the software, applying test driven development as needed.
- CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Recommends options for improving the software development and deployment processes, and implements the approved standards to improve efficiency and reliability.
- DOCUMENTATION: Creates and maintains comprehensive documentation for complex software applications, deployment processes and system configurations.
- TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Provides technical support and troubleshooting for complex issues with deployed applications to ensure minimal downtime and fast resolution.
Qualifications
- Minimum requirement of 6 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 8 years or more of relevant experience.
- Experience supporting and enabling platform for complex application development activities in DevOps environment.
- Experience building and supporting fully automated cloud platform solutions as Infrastructure as Code.
- Experience working with cloud services platform primarily on AWS and automating the Cloud infrastructure life cycle with tools such as Terraform, GitHub Actions and AWS SDK's.
- Excellent experience with Go programming language and optionally Python.
- Experience with CI/CD tooling to drive Infrastructure Code Deployment including Ansible, Terraform, Jenkins, GitHub Actions and Golang. Experience with infrastructure and application monitoring tools and enabling observability.
- Experience with Kubernetes, Docker, and microservice application deployments. Experience automating Windows and Linux operating system deployments and management in automatically scaling deployments using software package managers.
- Optionally AWS Professional level certifications - Professional Cloud Architect, Certified Security Specialty and Advanced Networking specialty.
Top Skills
Ansible
AWS
Docker
Github Actions
Go
Jenkins
Kubernetes
Python
Terraform
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