Platform Engineer
barclays
Job Description
To be successful as a Platform Engineer you should have experience with:
- Observability Expertise: Hands-on experience with at least one major Observability tool such as Elasticsearch, Grafana, Prometheus, or similar.
- Programming: Strong scripting and development skill using Python.
- Cloud Platform: Solid hand-on experience with AWS cloud services(e.g., EC2, Cloud formation, Lambda, S3).
- Operating System: Proficiency in Linux based environments.
- Devops Toolsets: Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, or equivalent, Chef or Ansible.
- Problem Solving: Strong troubleshooting and debugging skills across systems, application, and services.
Some other highly valued skills may include:
- Infrastructure as Code: Knowledge of tools like Terraform or equivalent.
- Containerization: Experience with Docker and Kubernetes.
- SRE Practices: Understanding of SRE principles.
- Monitoring Pipelines: Experience with building or maintaining Log and Metrics pipelines (e.g., Logstash, Kafka, Fluentd).