Sr. Platform Engineer

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Looking for an engineer with strong Kafka AWS RDS AWS Dynamo DB observability and platform automation skills.

Description

As a Sr Engineer you will be considered a technical expert in one or more phases of application and/or systems engineering. This includes providing design recommendations based on long-term IT organization strategy and expertise regarding the integration of applications across the business. You will determine specifications plan design and develop business critical software solutions utilizing appropriate software engineering processes - either individually or in concert with product team.

Designing Solutions
Apply technical knowledge to drive outcomes for customers
Ability to work and problem solve independently on initiatives that align to the broader software engineering strategy

Implementing Solutions
Member of team that can work independently as well as collaboratively with team in developing core software for the product that delivers outcomes.
Consistent and dependable in delivering core software that delivers outcomes and meets/exceeds the teams expectations for stability scalability resilience etc.

Learning and Applying New Techniques
Shares new ideas and techniques with team; Encourages junior engineers to invest in learning as a part of their job.

Collaborating within the Team
Participate in teams collaboration sessions to provide technical expertise to solve a problem/remove technical roadblocks for the team
Participate in product planning and implementation. Helps team to understand and decompose work

Defining Engineering Standards and Patterns
Contribute to develop engineering practices templates and frameworks in collaboration with the team.

DevOps
Continuously assessing technology to build more stable scalable and resilient software; Use data to measure progress
Promote and expand on the use of the CI/CD pipeline to improve the deployment and build process.
Participates in the team support rotation and provides expert knowledge on focus subsystems.

Selecting & Managing Technology Vendors
Contribute to define the selection criteria for selecting the right technology vendors
Participate in proof of concept / technology along with the vendor

Coaching Engineers
Provide guidance to junior engineers to help them learn foundational software engineering skills
Provide technical expertise and help the team to solve technical/software issues
Provide trainings to the junior developers and groom them
Provide domain expertise on software products in their area to junior engineers to help them learn/grow their skills and contribute as part of the team

Recruiting/Building Talent
Engage in the tech community to build the Thrivent technology brand and position as the employer of choice in the market
Participate in the interview process or be part of the panel to recruit the right talent to the team
Contribute to the recruitment to define the structure of the interview process to hire the right talent to the team.

Education
Required:
Bachelors degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience

Required Work Experience / Skills
7 years of experience in engineering environments taking abstract concepts and ideas and formulating a detailed software engineering plan to deliver
Sound knowledge of industry standard Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) practices
Sound knowledge of version and revision control practices and procedures
Sound knowledge of systems design concepts that provide security and stability
Expertise in debugging code and/or complex log files for troubleshooting and analysis of product defects
Expert knowledge/experience with querying databases for complex data lookup/update
Perform code reviews with associate team members