DevOps Platform Engineer

Key Responsibilities & Objectives: 

• Work as an engineer specializing in Kubernetes and Amazon Web Services on a global team of full stack software developers to develop and maintain software platforms and DevOps processes
  • Participate in the management, design, solutioning, and maintenance of software development and deployment processes
  • Improve and maintain reusable pipeline templates and patterns for automated deployment of cloud infrastructure and code
  • Develop and support high-quality automation workflows inside and outside the cloud platform that are appropriate for business and technology strategies
  • Build and maintain a continuous automation framework for the software development and deployment process
  • Monitor and troubleshoot the software delivery process, while working with software developers and operations engineers to improve the software delivery process
  • Stay up to date on the latest DevSecOps practices and technologies
  • Effectively contribute to the communication of platform health, risks, and issues to the program partners, stakeholders, and management teams
  • Resolve most conflicts between prioritization and scope independently but intuitively raise complex or consequential issues to senior management
  • Develop secure, quality code and associated tests 
  • Perform code reviews and participate in pair programming sessions 
  • Work in a modern Agile environment to deliver customer value with regular cadence

Basic Requirements & Experience Expectations: 

• 4-year (bachelors) degree in computer science, software engineering, data science or similar field
• 3+ years of development experience in Amazon Web Services, GitHub Actions, Containers, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and high performance computing
• 2+ years hands-on experience in building DevOps pipelines for automating, building, and deploying Microservice Applications, APIs, and Non-container Artifacts
• 2+ years hands-on GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Helm Charts
• 2+ years hands-on experience with CI/CD technologies including Microservices, Terraform, and pipeline creation/management (e.g., Github, Artifactory/JFROG, etc)
• Experience with observability tools like Datalog, New Relic, and open-source observability ecosystems (Prometheus, Grafana, Jaeger)
• Knowledge of AWS and Azure and a willingness to upskill as the company’s adoption grows
• Experience with the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Hands-on developer knowledge of Infrastructure-as-Code and associated technologies
• Knowledge of IaaS and PaaS offerings in AWS, Azure, and GCP
• Experience developing scripts or automating tasks using languages such as Bash, Powershell, Python, etc.
• Advanced knowledge of application, data, and infrastructure architecture disciplines
• Extensive experience in container-based technologies
• Proven ability to design, develop, and implement scalable, elastic microservice based platforms
• Ability to lead a team in resolving technical issues through debugging, research, and investigation
• Experience working with Git, specifically working in a team which adopts modern Git practices 
• Experience working in a software development team following modern software development practices (Testing, Code Reviews, Code Coherence, use of multiple frameworks/libraries)