The Senior Platform Engineer designs and maintains digital infrastructure, develops software, automates deployment, collaborates with teams, and improves processes while providing 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
- With more than 14 years of expertise in Information technology , with a combination of Engineering and Architectural skills.
- Proven experience designing scalable data architectures for batch and real-time processing.
- Strong Data Engineering skills with SQL, Python and modern data transformation tools (e.g., dbt) and Orchestration tools(Airflow/Glue).
- Hands-on expertise with cloud platforms (AWS preferred), serverless, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation).
- Knowledge of modern data stacks (Snowflake, Databricks), streaming technologies (Kafka, Flink), and lakehouse components (Iceberg, Glue).
- Experience with observability tools (Datadog, CloudWatch) and building reliable, monitored data systems.
- Strong documentation, mentoring, and collaboration skills with an Agile mindset.
Top Skills
Airflow
AWS
CloudFormation
Cloudwatch
Databricks
Datadog
Dbt
Flink
Glue
Iceberg
Kafka
Python
Snowflake
SQL
Terraform
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