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Principal Platform Engineer
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[Hiring] Principal Platform Engineer @DomainTools
Apr 01, 2025 - DomainTools is hiring a remote Principal Platform Engineer. 💸 Salary: $145,000 - $185,000 + 15% annual bonus. 📍Location: USA.
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Role Description
The Principal Platform Engineer translates high-level platform design into low-level technical design and is responsible for implementing, administering, supporting, and patching their corresponding platforms. Platform Engineers work closely with Engineering Architects to enable the capabilities defined on roadmaps and blueprints supporting platform programs and initiatives. They are well versed in modern data, infrastructure, and integration platforms, industry/technology best practices, and actively work on improving the reliability and scalability of infrastructure.
- Design, build, support, install, and configure the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform in both Cloud and On-Prem Environments.
- Install, configure, and monitor applications and services in the OpenShift cluster.
- Continually assess technical components to recommend platform improvements, translating high-level design and RHOS best practices into low-level technical configuration.
- Ensure ongoing stability, availability, performance, and security compliance of the platform to meet customer SLAs; author and execute test cases to validate.
- Collaborate with software delivery teams and architects to build and support self-service mechanisms, CI/CD pipelines, and k8s operators that simplify and accelerate service delivery, in accordance with DevOps and Agile frameworks.
- Maintain the catalog of services for the platform in collaboration with Engineering.
- Instrument and optimize application, system, and cluster performance.
- Forecast and plan capacity increases to ensure resource availability for engineering teams while meeting budget targets.
- Help build and implement Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity plan; conduct related testing of recovery procedures.
- Help determine Platform roadmap, manage projects and ticket-based work; ensure these are clearly communicated with stakeholders at all levels.
- Provide thought leadership on DevOps and Platform Engineering-centric system and process design, giving constructive input to engineers and leaders on proposals and best practices.
- Build internal documentation and artifacts describing the mechanisms used for deployment, monitoring, and operators.
- Lead by showing: mentor and help develop engineers in a highly demonstrative and collaborative way.
- Participate in an on-call rotation with fellow team members.
Qualifications
- 7+ years of experience in Linux systems engineering roles supporting bare metal servers and virtualization/container platforms.
- 3+ years’ Kubernetes administration experience on Red Hat OpenShift.
- Experience building and managing infrastructure in both public cloud and physical data center environments using IaC tools.
- 5+ years’ experience with enterprise monitoring and logging solutions like Prometheus, ELK, or similar.
- Proven ability to automate the right things in the simplest way possible (scripts, config management tools, CI pipelines, RHOS Operators, etc.).
- Solid understanding of networking fundamentals and storage technologies.
- Competency in at least one high-level programming language (i.e., Golang, Python, etc.).
- Ability to communicate well orally and in written form, and publish docs that are easily understood by stakeholders.
- Experience supporting customer-facing SaaS products.
- Willing to dive in and own problems that are new, ambiguous, and/or complex.
- Proven ability to prioritize where improvements are most needed; sees the forest for the trees.
- High team standards around communication, giving and receiving feedback, continuous improvement, and operational excellence.
Requirements
- Relevant Technologies:
- Compute: Rocky Linux, Kubernetes, Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform
- Storage: ODF, Ceph, Linux LVM and filesystems
- Languages: Python, Go, or another high-level language
- Automation Tools: Ansible, Terraform, GitLab, Hashicorp Vault/Consul, ArgoCD
- Cloud: AWS (EC2, S3, EBS, Glacier)
- Monitoring/metrics: Prometheus, Icinga/Nagios, Graphite, Grafana, CollectD
- Logging: Loki, ELK/OpenSearch, Syslog, Journald, Kafka
- Certifications: RHOS or other Red Hat, Linux/Unix, CCNA
Benefits
- Fully paid medical, dental, and vision insurance premiums.
- 401k retirement plan with company matching.
- Basic life insurance.
- Flexible PTO and additional well-being benefits.
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