Senior Platform Engineer

SUMMARY:
A well-established business is seeking to appoint a Senior Platform Engineer. The Senior Platform Engineer works as part of the SKA-Mid 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.

POSITION INFO:

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

• BTech/ Degree/ Masters/ PHD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related fields
• BTech coupled with 13 yearsrelevant working experience or Degree coupled with 9 yearsrelevant working experience or
• Masters coupled with 7 yearsrelevant working experience or
• PHD coupled with 5 yearsrelevant 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).

• 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.

• 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.
• Teamwork and Collaboration: Cooperates with others to achieve organisational objectives and may share team resources in order to do
• this. Collaborates with other teams as well as industry colleagues.
• Judgement and Problem Solving: 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.
• Adaptability: 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.