Platform Operations Engineer

As an Engineer on the Platform Operations team, you are a gifted technologist and problem solver. You understand cloud software delivery, tools, and processes that empower efficient and resilient delivery that adheres to top-notch development practices. You are technologically curious and seek out opportunities to research emerging technologies and trends, standards, and products. Your excellent communication and collaboration skills allow you to effectively articulate solutions to the development community, enabling all to succeed. You are communicative, approachable, self-driven, and collaborative.

In this role, you will:

Design & Implementation (75%)

Build solutions using the best practices of Agile, CI/CD, and DevOps

Continuously develop the skills required to work as part of the agile team in a poly-skilled development environment

Write code to automate the infrastructure lifecycle, create and support internal tools utilizing IaC, and be able to use CLIs

Partner with domain SMEs (Delivery Team Software Engineers, Security, Infrastructure, Network, Observability and Operations) to research, analyze and implement features and capabilities

Contribute to the development and growth of the Cloud Engineering Program, through thought leadership, design and implementation of tools and processes

Team Operations & Success (25%)

Implement cloud-first architectural solutions and best practices

Participate in agile scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Grooming, Daily SCRUM, Demo, Retro) and contribute to team deliverables

Participate in peer reviews of software engineering artifacts

Maintain, operate and monitor Platform products and infrastructure

Assist in the identification and resolution of production and production-like issues

Ensure the team is adhering to development standards and security policies and procedures

About You

You have:

3+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD framework, immutable infrastructure, automation, orchestration, and other modern DevOps patterns

Technical knowledge of Cloud Computing, DevOps, and Microservices

Strong knowledge and experience with distributed cloud infrastructure within AWS

Experience working with AWS resources such as Lambda, SNS, SQS, S3, Step Functions, EC2, ECS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, DynamoDB is a plus

Experience building event-driven Cloud-based serverless applications

Coding/scripting experience with Python, JavaScript, React.js, Node.js

Excellent communication and collaboration skills with an ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language

Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain good customer working relationships

Exceptional analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities

Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment