Senior Platform Engineer
Senior Platform Engineer
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As a Senior Platform Engineer at Vention you will focus on developing the internal development platform and promoting the DevSecOps practice to increase developer productivity observability operational reliability and cloud/application cybersecurity through wellorchestrated automated services for code/configuration and delivery across development and production environments. You will be a key player for managing our software inventory and lifecycle and ensure we have upgrade paths for our tools and software packages before they reach endofsupport status. You will also be responsible for ensuring that all of our cloud and embedded production systems have adequate monitoring for uptime and health.
You will participate in the establishment of troubleshooting best practices and create playbooks for dealing with emergency production downtime scenarios. Exemplary documentation skills will be needed to create guides and thorough inventory/statuses around our systems and best practices. This is a highly collaborative role and will require handson interactions with all development leaders and senior technology management to guide implement and promote DevSecOps initiatives.
You will report directly to the Director of Software Platform Engineering as part of the DevSecOps team.
What you will be doing:
- Participate in the development of Ventions Internal Development Platform.
- Participate in the development of scalable high performance highlyavailability and secure cloud environments.
- Participate in the development of secure solutions for vulnerability scanning secrets management code quality checks and dependency management aligned with security policies and compliance.
- Be responsible for building and establishing Ventions code pipeline allowed for CI/CD and ensuring a nimble costeffective cloud selfserved platform which is composed of a development and production environments that are at parity for both cloud systems and hardware side of things (deployments to embedded controllers).
- Ensuring proper performance reliability and security observability of all production software and systems.
- Work with development teams to ensure DevSecOps best practices are followed.
- Work with development teams to establish deployment and continuous improvement of infrastructure services.
- Participate in incident response forensic and post mortem activities.
- You will help establish troubleshooting best practices.
- Help optimize our AWS cost and infrastructure and work with teams to help determine which AWS services will best serve our development and infrastructure needs.
Qualifications :
- 7 years in DevOps/Platform engineering or in a similar software engineering role.
- Good knowledge of any of the modern programming languages and a strong understanding of overall web software architecture.
- Experience with managing and optimizing one of the following PaaS: AWS; GCP; or Azure.
- Experience in establishing server monitoring and creating automated reporting and observability with tools such as Datadog Sentry SumoLogic etc.
- Strong understanding of deploying and orchestrating containers (Docker Kubernetes etc.) targeting tiny and large hardware platforms (from armbased embedded devices to large multitenant systems).
- Experience with modem CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions CircleCI etc.
- Experience with configuration management & provisioning experience with knowledge of infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform.
- Experience with implementation of cloud cybersecurity best practices
- Experience with linux platforms scripting networking etc.
- Experience with incremental building and caching.
- Experience with dependency management.
- A solid understanding of architecture tradeoffs (reliability performance security maintainability testability operability etc).
- A good understanding of cost tradeoffs (at deployment buildtime runtime developmenttime and with respect to hardware resources).
- Excellent teamwork and communication skills.
Additional Information :
How We Take Care of You
- Flexible paid time off and remote work policies.
- Complimentary beverages and snacks so that you are fuelled and ready for your day.
- Global comprehensive health plans so you feel your best.
- Career growth opportunities. Your future matters.
- Funfilled social events curated based on diverse interests for our team to celebrate together. From sponsored sports teams to trivia nights.
- Time off to volunteer and give back to your community.
What to Expect in Your Interview
- Initial Call
- Meet the Team
- Challenge
- On site interview
- Decision & Offer
Commitment to Equal Employment Opportunity
Our culture is an uplifting environment for high achievers. The fastpaced highperformance environment will give you the opportunity to build products processes and strategies that will have a lasting impact.
When you join Vention you join a team of professionals with a diverse variety of experiences backgrounds and perspectives. Together we strive to nurture a supportive and inclusive work environment for all. We push each other to achieve extraordinary results and forge long term relationships as a result of the intensity and passion.
Were passionate about helping you do your best work. Claim your seat and find out what you can do!
If youre unsure if your experience perfectly matches our job posting we encourage you to apply anyway. We are happy to chat and get to know you better while you can understand the role as well.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
