Senior Platform Engineer

Minimum requirements:

• Bachelor's degree or relevant work experience.

• At least 10 years in active Development roles.

• Experience with most of the technology used, but specifically Terraform and Docker.

• Have strong operational experience with AWS, Linux and MySQL.

• Professional, Self-motivated attitude.

• Proficient in written and oral English communication.

• Eager to learn, open to constructive criticism and willing to be a team player in delivering the best solutions possible.

• Be comfortable working in an agile and fast-paced environment.

• Seasoned communicator, proficient in technical and business/ functional aspects of the software development process.

• Team player and willing to go beyond the call of duty when the need arises.

Responsibilities:

• Your mission will be to build and maintain vertical independent infrastructure, development pipelines and software services and set group-wide platform engineering standards.

• Assist in Research, P.O.C and implementation of new technologies or services to be adopted by the entire Group.

• Configuration and management of various servers/instances via Docker, Terraform and Ansible.

• Everything runs on docker, but we are still in the process of moving legacy over to docker.

• Write scripts and automation using Bash/Python/Groovy.

• Reviewing and approving the work of your peers as part of the software development process.

• Maintaining our Cloud Infrastructure primarily on AWS.

• Maintaining the reliability of our CI/CD.

• Build independent web-based tools and microservices to help dev workflows.

• Planning and Implementation of backup scenarios, log-rotations and overall scaling concepts for large datasets.

• Keep abreast with industry trends, new technologies and best practices in the DevOps and development space.

• Proactively improve products, systems and processes.

• Deliver software and projects according to agreed timelines.

• Tenacity and the ability to solve complex software bugs.

Tools/Tech:

• Debian/Ubuntu

• Nginx

• Docker/Terraform/Ansible

• Fargate ECS & EKS/RDS Aurora

• Laravel/PHP/MySQL/Elasticsearch based web application

• .NET Core/MSSQL/Elasticsearch based web application

• Android/Java-based mobile apps

• Memcached/Redis/SQS

• Datadog/Pingdom/Pagerduty

• Jenkins

• GitHub

• AWS

• Cloudflare

• OKTA

Originally posted on Himalayas