As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be an integral member of the Container Orchestration Platform Engineering team (COP), helping the organization transform into a truly modern cloud-native mode of operation. The goal of COP team is to reduce friction in the delivery process and improve developer experience. Technical prowess, pragmatic strategic understanding, and ability to make compromises working with the stakeholders are the 3 pillars of this job.

In Short

Embrace the AvidXchange culture and be a positive force for the team
Contribute to the strategic planning and direction for automation and governance of the COP platform
Embrace and evangelize automation, infrastructure as code, policy as code, and developer enablement
Lead technical implementations leveraging the team architect
Work independently and present results back to the COP team during Agile ceremonies
Assist both the COP team and COP adopters with platform features and enablement
Represent platform capabilities at delivery ceremonies
Drive forensic troubleshooting and analysis of automation and platform consistency issues
Ensure the highest levels of systems, resource, and infrastructure availability and performance optimization
Evangelize cloud-native practices and methodologies to delivery teams

Requirements

10+ years of experience in a Platform Engineering, Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Systems Engineering, Cloud-Native Engineering, DevOps Engineering or Advocacy role
Expertise with containers and container orchestration, particularly Kubernetes, Docker and containers
Strong Scripting Experience with Bash, Powershell, and/or Python
Expertise practicing Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code techniques
Expertise managing multiple code bases in Git
Expertise creating Continuous Integration build and deployment automation, for example CI/CD Pipelines
Expertise building and supporting production cloud-native applications in a major public cloud
Expertise implementing observability, application monitoring, and log aggregation solutions
Expertise working with cross functional teams to provide DevOps inspired solutions