Senior Platform Engineer

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The Role:  As our Senior Platform Engineer, you will join a team who strive to push cloud services to the maximum limit every day using cutting-edge technologies. If you are a highly self-motivated professional who embraces DevOps culture, has experience with AWS services and technologies and is passionate about learning, automating, innovating and working in a highly collaborative environment, we'd like to hear from you! The main responsibilities of the position include: • Initiate and actively drive the adoption of good patterns, structures and use of technologies for development and operations • Investigate and identify practices and work that can benefit from automation • Monitor and suggest improvements to the existing CI/CD process to increase speed, safety and reliability • Implement and coordinate implementation with the parties involved • Develop and maintain existing /GitLab CI pipeline libraries • Assist developers with setting up CI/CD for their projects and provide support for any issues that may arise • Stay up to date with the latest tools and trends in the industry • Provide senior-level, best practice recommendations and implementations to our Windows, Linux and Kubernetes hosting environments • Function as a mentor to junior team members, providing technical guidance and recommending continued learning opportunities to help them develop • Educate fellow team members as well as Application Development Teams about the platforms used-for and hosted-by our team. Key tools and concepts in this space are: Gitlab, Docker, AWS, Terraform, Istio Service Mesh, Kubernetes , Kafka, ELK • Work with our Security team to remediate high-risk vulnerabilities and ensure the security of our environments are being scrutinised as appropriate for their use case • Offer services related to the above tasks and projects to any of the Companies of the Group as instructed by the Line Manager Main requirements: • University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar discipline • 7+ years’ experience within the following areas: Cloud ( AWS), Release Pipeline Management, Windows Server Administration, Linux Administration, Certificate Management, PowerShell scripting, Bash/python scripting, Configuration Management and IAC (Ansible/Terraform), DNS, Networking • Enterprise-level Kubernetes experience • Solid Linux administration skills • Commitment to continuous improvement, with a focus on observability, modern application architecture styles, blue-green / canary deployments, CI/CD pipeline management • Ability to self-motivate, study, and stay on-top of emerging technologies and trends, while meeting business deadlines • Experience with tools including: Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, MSK, New Relic The following will be considered an advantage: • Familiarity with database concepts • Working experience with at least one cloud provider (preferably AWS) • Experience with Apache Kafka configuration and troubleshooting • Experience with ELK configuration and troubleshooting • Scripting skills (Bash, PowerShell, Python, Go, etc.) The Hiring Experience: What Awaits You • Show Your Skills – Online Technical Challenge • Let’s Connect – Intro Chat with Talent Acquisition • Deep Dive – First Interview with Your Future Team • Final Connection – Final Interview All applications will be treated with strict confidentiality!   By submitting this application, I confirm that I have read and agree to the terms of the Privacy Policy and the Confidentiality Undertaking.