Senior Platform Engineer
Are you passionate about scalable performant and resilient enterprise applications Are you passionate about incident management and root cause analysis Are you excited to collaborate with development teams to enhance application performance and reliability
If this sounds like you we cant wait to meet. Were actively seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join our talented team of consultants.
Whats in it for you
As a Senior Platform Engineer at Encora your role is to lead efforts and ensure the reliability availability and performance of applications and platforms. As a Senior Platform Engineer your role is to lead efforts and be responsible for both uplifting and maintaining our clients evolving technology platforms infrastructure applications and technology controls. As a Senior Platform Engineer the role will include both oversight for production operations of systems as well as development/engineering of solutions to maximize system reliability & automation.
For our clients youll work with a global team responsible for end-customer-facing business-critical applications. You will partner with Infrastructure SRE and Development teams to identify issues and improve system reliability.
Your Responsibilities
- Coaching and mentoring fellow team members
- Handle deployments to AWS and Kubernetes platforms
- Provide support for the AWS and Kubernetes platforms focusing on the customer-facing applications the team supports
- Manage mobile applications in the App and Play stores including deployments
- Automate deployment processes and develop and refine infrastructure as code
- Work with a global team to ensure high availability and scalability within the platform
- Collaborate with SREs to resolve platform-related issues
- Use Splunk and similar tools to monitor and troubleshoot platform issues
- Handle content delivery by utilizing contentful templates.
Qualifications
- Experience as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and/or Platform Engineer
- Superb written and oral communication skills
- Extensive experience with observability and monitoring especially with OpenTelemetry Splunk AppDynamics and Datadog
- Experience with AWS Kubernetes and/or OpenShift Background in DevOps practices Exposure to how pipelines are setup and how to debug issues if any error occurs as part of deployment.
- Scripting experience with Python or TypeScript
- Good debugging skills to dig deep and figure out the root cause of the problem in quick turnaround time.
- Experience with disaster recovery business continuity planning Linux and shell scripting
- Possess a Can Do attitude with a view to moving the business forward.
- Demonstrated skill and passion for operational excellence and solution delivery.
- Experience in applying compliance requirements industry best practices and external knowledge
Preferred Qualifications
- A Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related technical field
- Deep background working in an Agile methodology
- Knowledge of cloud-native application architecture design patterns
- Proven ability to assist in leading small to medium-sized teams
- ITIL Foundation certification
- AWS Azure or GCP certifications
Required Experience:
Senior IC