Platform Operations Engineer

Primary Responsibilities/Accountabilities

• 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
  • Affiliate in the identification and resolution of production and production-like issues
  • Affiliate in ensuring the team is adhering to development standards and security policies and procedures

Qualifications

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