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Senior Platform Engineer

📅 Dec 12, 2022
AWSGitlab CICI/CDKubernetes
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📜 Description

  • Drive adoption of effective development and operations patterns, structures, and technologies.
  • Identify automation opportunities and improve CI/CD speed, safety, and reliability.
  • Develop and maintain GitLab CI pipeline libraries and help developers configure pipelines and resolve issues.
  • Recommend and implement best practices for Windows, Linux, and Kubernetes hosting environments.
  • Mentor junior team members and educate development teams on platform tools and concepts.
  • Work with Security to remediate high-risk vulnerabilities and scrutinize environment security.

🛠️ Requirements

  • Show Your Skills – Online Technical Challenge
  • Let’s Connect – Intro Chat with Talent Acquisition
  • Deep Dive – First Interview with Your Future Team
  • Final Connection – Final Interview
Full job description
The Role:
As our Senior Platform Engineer, you will join a team who strive to push cloud services to the maximum limit every day using cutting-edge technologies. If you are a highly self-motivated professional who embraces DevOps culture, has experience with AWS services and technologies and is passionate about learning, automating, innovating and working in a highly collaborative environment, we'd like to hear from you!
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The main responsibilities of the position include:

  • Initiate and actively drive the adoption of good patterns, structures and use of technologies for development and operations
  • Investigate and identify practices and work that can benefit from automation
  • Monitor and suggest improvements to the existing CI/CD process to increase speed, safety and reliability
  • Implement and coordinate implementation with the parties involved
  • Develop and maintain existing /GitLab CI pipeline libraries
  • Assist developers with setting up CI/CD for their projects and provide support for any issues that may arise
  • Stay up to date with the latest tools and trends in the industry
  • Provide senior-level, best practice recommendations and implementations to our Windows, Linux and Kubernetes hosting environments
  • Function as a mentor to junior team members, providing technical guidance and recommending continued learning opportunities to help them develop
  • Educate fellow team members as well as Application Development Teams about the platforms used-for and hosted-by our team. Key tools and concepts in this space are: Gitlab, Docker, AWS, Terraform, Istio Service Mesh, Kubernetes , Kafka, ELK
  • Work with our Security team to remediate high-risk vulnerabilities and ensure the security of our environments are being scrutinised as appropriate for their use case
  • Offer services related to the above tasks and projects to any of the Companies of the Group as instructed by the Line Manager
  • Main requirements:

  • University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar discipline
  • 7+ years’ experience within the following areas: Cloud ( AWS), Release Pipeline Management, Windows Server Administration, Linux Administration, Certificate Management, PowerShell scripting, Bash/python scripting, Configuration Management and IAC (Ansible/Terraform), DNS, Networking
  • Enterprise-level Kubernetes experience
  • Solid Linux administration skills
  • Commitment to continuous improvement, with a focus on observability, modern application architecture styles, blue-green / canary deployments, CI/CD pipeline management
  • Ability to self-motivate, study, and stay on-top of emerging technologies and trends, while meeting business deadlines
  • Experience with tools including: Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, MSK, New Relic
  • The following will be considered an advantage:

  • Familiarity with database concepts
  • Working experience with at least one cloud provider (preferably AWS)
  • Experience with Apache Kafka configuration and troubleshooting
  • Experience with ELK configuration and troubleshooting
  • Scripting skills (Bash, PowerShell, Python, Go, etc.)
  • The Hiring Experience: What Awaits You

  • Show Your Skills – Online Technical Challenge
  • Let’s Connect – Intro Chat with Talent Acquisition
  • Deep Dive – First Interview with Your Future Team
  • Final Connection – Final Interview
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