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.
• 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.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in Linux systems engineering roles supporting bare metal servers and virtualization/container platforms.
• 3+ years’ Kubernetes administration experience on Red Hat OpenShift.
• Experience building and managing infrastructure in both public cloud and physical data center environments using IaC tools.
• 5+ years’ experience with enterprise monitoring and logging solutions like Prometheus, ELK, or similar.
• Proven ability to automate the right things in the simplest way possible (scripts, config management tools, CI pipelines, RHOS Operators, etc.).
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals and storage technologies.
• Competency in at least one high level programming language (i.e., Golang, Python, etc.).
• Ability to communicate well orally and in written form, and publish docs that are easily understood by stakeholders.
• Experience supporting customer-facing SaaS products.
• Willing to dive in and own problems that are new, ambiguous, and/or complex.
• Proven ability to prioritize where improvements are most needed; sees the forest for the trees.
• High team standards around communication, giving and receiving feedback, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.

Benefits

• DomainTools offers a comprehensive benefits package including fully paid medical, dental and vision insurance premiums.
• 401k retirement plan with company matching.
• Basic life insurance.
• Flexible PTO and additional well-being benefits.
• Inclusive and diverse workplace culture.