Platform Engineer II

Responsibilities:

• Add a new feature to existing infrastructure platforms.
• Collaborate across teams and lead technical discussions with clients and internal teams.
• Mentor junior team members through mob-pairing/1:1 pairing sessions.
• Adapt to different roles and technologies as project needs evolve.
• Proactive mindset with excellent client communication, collaboration, and writing skills.
• Use methodologies like Agile and Lean to manage projects and deliverables.
• Document technical solutions and knowledge for team reference.
• Stay current with industry trends and emerging technologies.

Requirements:

• Experience with managing large-scale infrastructure systems.
• Experience as a reliability engineer is good.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language.
• Good understanding of software delivery principles.
• Ability to adapt to different roles and technologies when needed

Required Technical Skills:

• You have spent some time building software systems or self-service systems for internal teams.
• You have a good understanding of Linux, software-defined, and cloud networking.
• You have work experience in configuration management and using tools like Ansible and Chef.
• You must have a good understanding of continuous integration and continuous delivery concepts, not just tools.
• Experience with tools like Jenkins, GitHub Actions, GitLab CI, etc. is required.
• It would be a plus if you have worked with GitOps tools like Argo CD or Flux CD.
• You are familiar with the cloud-native ecosystem and tools like Prometheus, OpenTelemetry, and Envoy.
• In-depth understanding of containers and container orchestrators like Nomad, Kubernetes, etc.
• You should deeply understand managing and organizing infrastructure as code and have worked with tools such as Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, and AWS CDK.
• You are familiar with at least one primary cloud provider, such as Google Cloud Platform (GCP), Amazon Web Services (AWS), or Microsoft Azure.
• You understand observability well and can collaborate with dev teams to improve their observability systems.
• You have a good understanding of the principles of distributed systems.
• You understand how SQL and NoSQL databases work and what is needed to manage them.
• You have familiarity with basic cloud security.