Job Description:
Senior Platform Engineers play a key role in defining and communicating the technical and architectural vision to product teams.
This involves contributing to the overall strategy, charting a course for solutions, and collaborating with customers and suppliers to ensure fitness for purpose.
Key Responsibilities:
- Embracing leadership roles
- Participating in Value Stream Mapping workshops
- Couching engineers in Technical Agility
- Implementing Enablers to evolve solution intent
Additional Responsibilities:
- Working with customers, stakeholders, and suppliers to establish high-level Solution Intent and information models
- Providing oversight and input to high-level and detailed design of infrastructure, interfaces, extensions, and workflows
Requirements:
- Strong relationships with business leaders and teams to deliver business value using relevant Business Relationship Management practices
- Experience in Systems Engineering, supervisory experience, and utilizing a broad knowledge base in fundamental IT skills and modern development and deployment practices
Ideal Candidate:
- 9+ years of relevant work experience
- Experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and platform engineering
- Hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), especially using Terraform in production environments
Technical Skills:
- Proficient in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or Go
- Solid understanding of containerization and orchestration using Docker and Kubernetes
Work Environment:
- Agile/Scrum teams
- Collaboration with developers, SREs, and QA
- Familiarity with observability and monitoring tools, such as Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus