Senior Platform Engineer - Remote

Overview

Senior Platform Engineers translate high level platform design into low level technical design and are responsible for implementing, administering, supporting, and patching their corresponding platforms. Platform Engineers work closely with Engineering Architects to enable the capabilities defined on roadmaps and blueprints supporting platform programs and initiatives. Platform Engineers are well versed in modern data, infrastructure and integration platforms, industry/technology best practices, and actively work on improving the reliability and scalability of infrastructure.

In Short

• Installs, configures, and monitors applications and services in the OpenShift cluster.
• Continually assesses technical components to recommend platform improvements, translating high-level design and RHOS best practices into low-level technical configuration.
• Ensures the ongoing stability, availability, performance, and security compliance of the platform to meet customer SLAs; authors and executes test cases to validate.
• Collaborates with software delivery teams and architects to build and support self-service mechanisms, CI/CD pipelines, and k8s operators that simplify and accelerate service delivery, in accordance with DevOps and Agile frameworks.
• Maintains the catalog of services for the platform in collaboration with Engineering.
• Instruments and optimizes application, system, and cluster performance.
• Forecasts and plans capacity increases to ensure resource availability for engineering teams while meeting budget targets.
• Helps build and implement Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity plan; conducts related testing of recovery procedures.
• Helps determine Platform roadmap, manage projects and ticket-based work; ensures these are clearly communicated with stakeholders at all levels.
• Provides thought leadership on DevOps and Platform Engineering-centric system and process design, giving constructive input to engineers and leaders on proposals and best practices.

Requirements

• Builds internal documentation and artifacts describing the mechanisms used for deployment, monitoring, and operators.
• Leads by showing: mentors and helps develop engineers in a highly demonstrative and collaborative way.
• Participates in an on-call rotation with fellow team members.

Benefits

• Competitive salary with annual bonus.