Senior Software Development Engineer

About the role

The role involves collaborating with teams across multiple locations and time zones. You will need to be adept at communicating optimally and building positive relationships with colleagues in diverse locations.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement: Build, develop, and implement solutions for our Kubernetes platform, including infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and observability tools.
• Build and maintain: Build and maintain core platform components, ensuring high availability, scalability, and security.
• Automate and optimize: Automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration management, and application deployments using tools like Terraform and Argo CD.
• Troubleshooting and support: Provide support and solving for platform-related issues, working closely with peer development teams to resolve problems.
• Security and compliance: Implement and maintain security standard methodologies for the platform, ensuring compliance with industry standards.
• Documentation and knowledge sharing: Build and maintain comprehensive documentation for platform components and processes. Actively participate in knowledge sharing within the team.
• Collaborate effectively with other engineers and development teams across multiple locations and time zones.
• Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and trends in the platform engineering space.

Qualifications

• A minimum of 5 years of hands-on experience working with large scale cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and software development engineering skills.
• Bachelor's degree in a computer related field or equivalent work experience.
• Infrastructure as code: Proficiency in infrastructure automation tools like Terraform.
• CI/CD: Experience with building, maintaining, and consuming CI/CD pipelines and tools like Argo CD.
• Programming skills: Proficiency in at least one programming language.
• Problem-solving: Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Communication: Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Other Qualifications

• Strong understanding of Kubernetes
• Amazon Web Services proficiency working in a production environment
• C#, Python, Ruby, Rust, or Go programming language proficiency
• Experience with security auditing and compliance frameworks
• Experience working in air gapped cloud regions

Preferred

• DoD 8570/8140 compliant with at least IAT Level II certification, including a current Computing Environment (CE) credential and one approved specialty certification (e.g., CompTIA CySA+, GICSP, CASP+)