Senior Platform Engineer - Remote

Overview

As a Senior Platform Engineer you will be part of a global team that designs, builds and operates Silver Rail’s cloud native SaaS platform. You will be utilising industry leading tools and practices, and embedding core principals of SRE, Security and Automation into our services.

In Short

• Contribute to building and enhancing every aspect of SilverRail’s evolving infrastructure and platform as a service.
• Support internal and external customers, and build on key cloud technologies.
• Manage service reliability functions such as monitoring & alerting solutions, latency & load performance, uptime, and error budgets.
• Develop, maintain, and utilise SilverRail’s deployment automation, configuration management, and orchestration systems.
• Design, build, and manage SilverRail’s cloud environments and associated technologies.
• Own the deployment process to ensure streamlined, zero-downtime, and orchestrated service delivery.
• Work with cross functional teams to optimise processes, application development, and customer support.
• On-call responsibilities.

Requirements

• Hands on experience in operations engineer, DevOps, SRE, sysadmin role or academic knowledge.
• 3-5 years of industry experience in an Infrastructure function, including exposure to Public Cloud services.
• Knowledge of Linux based operating systems.
• Experience in programming practices and Software Development Life Cycle models.
• Experience in a common programming language or scripting language (python, ruby, bash, etc).
• Experience with Infrastructure as code concepts and languages, Terraform, CloudFormation, ARM etc.
• Experience with Container technologies and platforms such as Kubernetes (AKS/EKS/GKE/Rancher/Openshift/Anthos) would be beneficial.
• Knowledge of Git and Git based workflows such as GitOps.
• Advocate of software best practices and Agile SDLC.
• Software development experience is highly valued.

Benefits

• We are a globally accredited Great Place To Work.
• We are an accredited flexible company and were named in Flexa’s Top 50 Most Flexible Companies.
• We are a remote first working organisation, and for this role we would welcome applications from candidates who are comfortable working remotely but willing to travel for team meetings when needed.
• We offer a highly competitive benefits package including private healthcare insurance, rail discounts and flexible working.
• We provide a wealth of career development opportunities with training that is individual, focused on improving your skills and helping you become the best professional you can be.
• Our team’s health and wellness is genuinely important to us, so we offer a number of wellbeing seminars and membership to the #1 leading meditation app.
• We are the fourth company in the world to become reproductively responsible, accredited by Hertility providing educational workshops around women’s health, family planning and fertility as well as progressive leave policies & hormone testing.
• A unique opportunity to work for a tech company that is helping the environment by revolutionising the way we travel.