Platform Engineer, Observability Platforms

Job Description

We are seeking a highly experienced Platform Engineer to join our engineering this role you will design and implement modern scalable infrastructure solutions drive automation across our software delivery lifecycle and engineer robust cloud-native systems. Beyond technical execution you will act as a trusted advisorinfluencing key technical decisions and guiding stakeholdersacross the product line. You will collaborate closely with product teams to deliver reliable secure and high-performing solutions.

Responsibilities

• Design build and operate scalable observability platform capabilities that will enable reliable monitoring alerting tracing and event management across the company

• Develop and automate infrastructure CI/CD workflows and platform services using Infrastructure as Code and modern DevOps practices to improve delivery speed compliance and operational consistency for the custom solutions our team is responsible

• Lead engagements with product teams to define and design custom solutions for the observability platforms enabling engineering capabilities to kick start by the rest of the team

• Drive continuous improvement through AIOps telemetry insights and incident learnings to reduce alert noise accelerate response times and improve overall service resilience

Requirements

• System Design: Proven experience in system design and modern custom architecture concepts (microservices event-driven serverless distributed systems)

• Continuous Delivery & Integration: Hands-on expertise building CI/CD pipelines (e.g. GitLab CI GitHub Actions) designing and building cloud services using IaC then deploying maintaining those services for compliance and security. (e.g. Terraform CloudFormation)

• Cloud Engineering: Strong hands-on implementation experience across core AWS services (e.g. EC2 S3 Lambda ECS/EKS RDS IAM VPC CloudWatch)

• API Development: Demonstrated ability to design and build APIs using Python (e.g. Flask or FastAPI)

• Observability & Monitoring: Extensive knowledge and hands-on experience of OpenTelemetry event management and monitoring systems (e.g. Prometheus Grafana Big Panda Logic Monitor)

• AIOps: Familiarity and exposure on using LLMs via API driven solutions detect anomalies and accelerate incident response to improve reliability and reduce alert noise

• Agile Ways of Working: Deep experience working in an Agile/Scrum environment with hands-on expertise in managing a product backlog using tools like JIRA and Confluence

• Interpersonal skills: Ability to influence key stakeholders and different team members. Providing SME level guidance removing blockers and enabling other junior team members

Preferred

• 7 years of relevant professional experience

• Ability to influence team members and stakeholders in decision making ability to convey the right message while working within diver geography and cultures

• AWS Certification (e.g. AWS Certified Solutions Architect DevOps Engineer Professional)

• Hands-on experience with container orchestration (Docker Kubernetes)

• Extensive knowledge of monitoring/observability tools (Prometheus Grafana ELK Datadog)

• Familiarity with security best practices (DevSecOps) and compliance frameworks

• Strong scripting skills (Python Bash) and version control (Git)

• Good understanding of SDLC processes

• Bachelor degree from relevant programmes (Information Technologies Electronics etc.)

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