[Hiring] Senior Platform Engineer @Sedona Digital

Role Description

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will join a team who strive to push cloud services to the maximum limit every day using cutting-edge technologies. We are looking for 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.

• 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 scrutinized 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.

Qualifications

• 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.

Requirements

• 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.).

Benefits

• Work from home.
• Medical insurance given after probation period.
• Training on market trends and client needs.
• Continuous learning and personal development opportunities.
• Holiday allowance in line with local legislation.
• Competitive compensation package.
• Performance-based bonus.
• Fun budget for team events.