SENIOR PLATFORM ENGINEER

SUMMARY:
JOB TITLE: SENIOR PLATFORM ENGINEER

• The Senior Platform Engineer works as part of the company Site Reliability Engineering team to ensure the operational systems are developed, deployed and managed in a way that is highly automated and well understood.
• The position also works with software engineers from around the world to support the delivery of the software systems and the CI/CD pipelines that ensure their reliability when deployed.
• The Senior Platform engineer will be expected to guide and work with more junior team members to accomplish their tasks.
• Senior engineers are expected to be accountable for their deliverables.
• As part of the Company Operations team, they are expected to provide a senior level of systems support, able to investigate, diagnose and resolve complex issues with minimum guidance.

POSITION INFO:
Key Responsibilities:

• Implement and verify company computing platform - Work in collaboration with the company Software team to define and implement the Continuous Delivery/Continuous Integration pipeline for the company software system.
• Contribute to systems engineering and Operations documentation refinement.
• Support users, operators, as well as the implementation of releases, system changes and fixes.
• Work with other teams within company construction and operations.
• Work with system/array integration team, supporting integration and testing.
• Be an integral member of the company Computing and Software team, as a senior technical specialist that supports the establishment of company Computing Platform operations.
• Establish and maintain a professional relationship with company Compute Infrastructure and Networks team.
• Participate in project management and activity management activities.
• Attend relevant training/courses to gain experience and improved knowledge.
• Research new technologies, methods or approaches, with the purpose of utilizing them within the organization.
• Participate in innovation and technology development initiatives.
• Mentor and educate more junior engineers as and when required.

• BTech coupled with 13 years relevant working experience or Degree coupled with 9 years relevant working experience.
• Masters coupled with 7 years relevant working experience.
• PHD coupled with 5 years relevant working experience in software engineering, large-scale computing, high performance computing, private cloud and virtual computing (e.g. OpenStack, Kubernetes).
• Experience with systems administration, provisioning of MAAS, preferably using Linux and open-source tools (such as Docker, Helm, Ansible).
• Proficiency with one or more Continuous Integration and automated test execution tools (Jenkins, GoCD, Gitlab, Travis-CI).

• Proficient in C++ and Python programming languages.
• Experienced in administering application servers, web servers and databases.
• Experienced in integrated security practices such as secrets management into the DevOps pipelines, SSO, platform and application hardening.
• Have some experience of line management.
• Systems Engineering processes.
• Willingness to transition between system development, roll-out and system support and operations

• Experience in using infrastructure provisioning tools (such as Docker, Helm, Ansible, Terraform) in a cloud environment or in a virtualized environment (AWS, OpenStack, GCP).
• Working knowledge of the git distributed version control system and related best practices.
• Proficiency with one or more Continuous Integration and automated test execution tools (Jenkins, GoCD, Gitlab, Travis-CI).
• Demonstrated understanding and enthusiasm for team-based working based on lean/agile principles.
• Ethernet network technologies and management of switches and routers.
• Linux operating system and standard tools.

• Ability to develop or script in Python programming language.
• Experienced in administering application servers, web servers and databases.
• Experienced in integrated security practices such as secrets management into the DevOps pipelines, SSO, platform and application hardening.
• Ability to communicate effectively to a wide audience and a wide range of stakeholders, gathering information and distilling.
• information and tailoring it appropriately for the target audience.
• Ability to develop and convey a technical solution as part of a team.
• Ability to reliably estimate and plan work as part of a team.
• Agile approaches to systems development.
• Engineering systems architecture concepts.
• An understanding of DevOps processes.
• Services, Operations and Support management.
• Risk management.

• Modern software collaboration tools such as GitHub, Containers, Google Drive, JIRA etc.
• Understanding and experience in implementation of project management and system engineering principles.
• Experience with test-driven development and integration testing techniques, methodologies and frameworks; and supporting systems like revision control and build systems.
• Experience with quality assurance processes and software development processes and willingness to participate in improving software development processes and software quality procedures.

• Cooperates with others to achieve organisational objectives and may share team resources to do this.
• Collaborates with other teams as well as industry colleagues.

• Anticipates and manages problems in ambiguous situations.
• Develops and selects an appropriate course of action and provides for contingencies.
• Evaluates, interprets and integrates complex bodies of information and draws logical conclusions, synthesises proposals and defends options with reasoned arguments.

• Demonstrates flexibility in thinking and adapts to and manages the increasing rate of organisational change by adjusting strategies, goals and priorities.
• Willingness to participate in formal and informal learning and mentorship programs.