Platform Engineer

We are looking for data platform specialist to stabilize and innovate the platform and services that will improve our customers and business stakeholders experience as well as scale our systems as our customerbase continues to grow.

As a data platform specialist in a large organization you will own the technical aspects for your platform and will work closely with your application

architecture and delivery teams to ensure the needs of our business problems are clearly understood and effectively addressed.

Key Responsibilities

• Part of the platform services squads for the Infrastructure & Database Administrators.

• Innovating modernizing & and proactive monitoring of IT Core infrastructure performance maintenance support and infrastructure capacity planning.

• Take end to end ownership in the management of multiple big data and database platform technologies Orchestrations Tooling and runtimes.

• Train guide and grow other team members on a continuous basis to have a sustainable resource plan.

• Lead datadriven decisionmaking process define KPI and Metrics to measure Big Data Storage Platform performance team performance and evolve metrics on an ongoing basis.

• Work on Roadmap & Strategy for Data Platform with focus on Regional and nonRegional Platforms with Technological focus on Teradata (with Vantage) / Oracle / Big Data Platforms (Open Source Commodity and BDA) and object storage (and other future roadmaps).

• Ensure Platform Security with Data on Rest and on move with additionally maintaining UAM and appropriate controls on PII

• Ensure execution of technology/product roadmap with top Quality and clear SLA.

• Ensuring IT Core Infrastructure services are aligned with evolving needs and capabilities capacity and are future fit (Cloud/onpremises technologies best suited for the bank).

• Collaborating with key stakeholders on Platform strategy with the banks internal technology teams and manage the vendors for platform upgrades and maintenance.

• Ensure effective platform maintenance including the performance tuning and storage optimization opportunities.

• Ensure effective software configuration management practices so the roadmap for devops can be adopted
• Inventory management for all environments across all platforms to ensure the effective utilization of platform & its resources

Requirements and Skills

• Knowledge of IT Service Management frameworks and the management of IT Services

• Knowledge/Understanding of good information security practice from a technical and management perspective.

• Demonstrable knowledge of ITIL
• 10 years experience as a Manager of Infrastructure Operation team
• 8 years as Infrastructure Operations experience in TeradataHadoop and other Big data technologies Data Centre Management Cloud Technologies and Management Pyspark/Spark. Kubernetes and S3
• Proven track record of driving and delivering consistent and constant service improvements.
• Vendor and Supplier Management
• Evidence of ability to build relationships to all levels within the organization.
• Evidence of adaptability/flexible to changing demands.
• Evidence of ability to influence.
• An understanding of an outsourced delivery environment/model.
• Understanding of internal/external customer business needs

Total years

more than 8 years of experience

Nice to have

• Selfdriven individual with the capability to break out of their comfort zone and technology area.

• Very good interpersonal and communication skills (oral & written) proficient presenting and explaining technical information in a nontechnical way.

• Good communicator and collaborator able to share your skills with others.

• Decision making/problem solving skills.

• Strong planning and organization skills.

• Strong people skills interpersonal skills performance management

skills

• Manages time effectively meets deadlines and achieves objectives.

• Good communicator and collaborator able to share your skills with others.

• Able to demonstrate a passion for technology and an ability to adopt quickly.
• Ability to work under pressure

Remote Work :

No