Platform Engineer (DevOps)

• We are seeking an experienced and talented Engineer to join clients busy and collaborative development team.


• This is a unique opportunity to work end-to-end on how software is deployed, developed, and maintained as we redefine our platform's infrastructure layer.


• Successful applicants will have a passion for problem-solving, teamwork, and delivering excellent results.


• This role requires strategic, integrated thinking along with technical experience working with a variety of technologies, including:

Kubernetes



Cloud providers:

• AWS


• GCS


• Python APIs


• SDKs


• CLIs


• MongoDB


• ElasticSearch


• Reading/understanding metrics, monitoring best practices


• Continuous integration, GitLab a plus

• Partner closely with developers, product, and customer support teams to design, deliver and manage the infrastructure to support a growing customer base across multiple regions and public clouds.


• Drive and improve the whole lifecycle of operational readiness – from inception through deployment, operation, and refinement.


• Develop and maintain our automated CI/CD release and deployment pipeline which supports next-generation application development and ongoing production operations.


• Advise on best practices throughout the full software development lifecycle, working with teams to ensure designs are scalable, maintainable, and supportable.


• Write accurate, reliable, consistent documentation in order to execute repeatable actions with an eye to convert to automation.


• Debug production deployment or service issues.


• Advise on the design and development of automation frameworks and testing processes in cooperation with the QA team.


• Collaborate daily across a geographically dispersed development team.


• Assist with system security and vulnerability analyses and risk assessments.


• Provide peer coaching and team training as required.

• Direct experience with production application deployments in AWS and/or GCP.


• Infrastructure as code tools such as Ansible, Terraform, etc.


• Strong software development skills — Python, etc.

• Feel passionate about helping developers get their code to prod faster.


• Think in systems — edge cases, failure modes, behaviors, specific implementations.


• Thrive in a collaborative and dynamic environment.


• Have a habit of documentation to share your knowledge and learn from past mistakes.


• Driven by curiosity and creative problem solving.


• When you see something broken, you can’t help but fix it.


• Have an urge for delivering to deadline and iterating fast.


• Keep customers top-of-mind.


• Maintain proactive and positive relationships across the organization.


• Azure experience a plus.

• Complete and improve the automated deployment pipeline of the application using GitLab, Helm and Umbrella.


• Define incident response procedures and alerting criteria.


• Create services to support ephemeral test environments for the Engineering team.

Notes: They can be remote and location anywhere in the US is fine. US citizen or Green card holder.