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