Senior Platform Engineer

What You'll Do

• Design, implement, and operate internal multi-tenant platforms:
  • Container orchestration runtimes (e.g. Kubernetes)
  • Event streaming (e.g. Kafka)
  • Persistent storage (e.g. Redis)
• Play a key role in architecting the future Kubernetes platform and application adoption roadmap
• Provide leadership in containerization of applications and best practice container usage
• Providing leadership in Proof of Concepts (POCs) for assessment of technical and business benefits.
• Growing our agile development culture through use of excellent engineering skills and a deep knowledge of DevOps methodologies.
• Ability to drive platform architecture design and ownership and articulate architecture solution options to product owners and architecture leadership.
• Evaluate and recommend technology and frameworks for flexibility, long-term viability, and time to market.
• Demonstrate ability to analyze business direction and problems, understand long term vision and risk in developing strategic technical solutions. Work closely with Product/Application teams in technology evaluation, selection, recommendation and configuration.
• Collaborating with peer architects seeing opportunities to refactor business processes, improve customer experience or perform capability rationalization.

Who You Are

• Strong experience with multiple high level programming languages (Java, Python preferred)
• Comprehensive knowledge of the Twelve Factor App methodologies
• Deep hands-on experience in orchestration container platforms (cloud or on-premises such as EKS, AKS, Tanzu, OpenShift, etc.)
• Deeply committed to complete automation of the complete SDLC
• Experience with IaC (Infrastructure as Code) and configuration tooling (e.g. Terraform, CloudFormation) preferred
• Experience with event streaming patterns
• Deep understanding of messaging and caching platforms
• Proven ability to build and maintain effective, trusting partnerships with product managers, architects and technical leads for individual products and applications
• Proven and comprehensive knowledge of APIs, UIs, infrastructure, data architecture, security, and new technologies
• Ability to provide technical leadership and hands on day-to-day solutions to agile teams, preparing the design artifacts and implementation of solutions
• Proven track record of critical thinking, with the ability to translate business needs into technology solutions
• Passion for technology without limitation to a set of languages or frameworks. Love what you do and are eager to seek new challenges
• Obsessed with building great teams, sharing knowledge and improving DevOps culture
• Strong presentation skills; written and verbal communication including the ability to influence
• Minimum Bachelors Degree in Computer Science or related field
• Minimum of 3-5 years of industry experience in an architecture and/or software engineering role

Whats In It For You

In addition to working on cutting-edge technology and in our culture of innovation, collaboration, and openness, we offer:

• Healthcare and wellness options
• 401(k) match
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Training and tuition assistance
• Other perks include generous time-off policies, stipends for gym memberships, exercise equipment and similar, and access to on-site healthcare

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Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.