Senior Platform Engineer

Summary

Join DomainTools as a Senior Platform Engineer and translate high-level platform designs into low-level technical specifications. You will be responsible for implementing, administering, supporting, and patching platforms, collaborating with architects to enable roadmap capabilities. Leverage your expertise in modern data, infrastructure, and integration platforms to enhance reliability and scalability. This role focuses on Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform in cloud and on-prem environments, encompassing application management, performance optimization, and disaster recovery planning. You will also collaborate with teams to build self-service mechanisms and CI/CD pipelines, while contributing to platform roadmaps and mentoring junior engineers. The position offers a remote work arrangement within the US.

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in Linux systems engineering roles supporting bare metal servers and virtualization/container platforms
• 3+ years’ Kubernetes administration experience on Red Hat OpenShift
• Experience building and managing infrastructure in both public cloud and physical data center environments using IaC tools
• 5+ years’ experience with enterprise monitoring and logging solutions like Prometheus, ELK, or similar
• Proven ability to automate the right things in the simplest way possible (scripts, config management tools, CI pipelines, RHOS Operators, etc.)
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals and storage technologies
• Competency in at least one high level programming language (i.e., Golang, Python, etc.)
• Ability to communicate well orally and in written form, and publish docs that are easily understood by stakeholders
• Experience supporting customer-facing SaaS products
• Willing to dive in and own problems that are new, ambiguous, and/or complex
• Proven ability to prioritize where improvements are most needed; sees the forest for the trees
• High team standards around communication, giving and receiving feedback, continuous improvement, and operational excellence

Responsibilities

• Design, build, support, install, and configure the Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform in cloud and on-prem environments
• Install, configure, and monitor applications and services in the OpenShift cluster
• Continuously assess technical components to recommend platform improvements, translating high-level design and RHOS best practices into low-level technical configuration
• Ensure the ongoing stability, availability, performance, and security compliance of the platform to meet customer SLAs; author and execute test cases to validate
• Collaborate with software delivery teams and architects to build and support self-service mechanisms, CI/CD pipelines, and k8s operators that simplify and accelerate service delivery, in accordance with DevOps and Agile frameworks
• Maintain the catalog of services for the platform in collaboration with Engineering
• Instrument and optimize application, system, and cluster performance
• Forecast and plan capacity increases to ensure resource availability for engineering teams while meeting budget targets
• Help build and implement Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity plan; conduct related testing of recovery procedures
• Help determine Platform roadmap, manage projects and ticket-based work; ensure these are clearly communicated with stakeholders at all levels
• Provide thought leadership on DevOps and Platform Engineering-centric system and process design, giving constructive input to engineers and leaders on proposals and best practices
• Build internal documentation and artifacts describing the mechanisms used for deployment, monitoring, and operators
• Lead by showing: mentor and help develop engineers in a highly demonstrative and collaborative way
• Participate in an on-call rotation with fellow team members

Benefits

• Fully paid medical, dental and vision insurance premiums
• 401k retirement plan with company matching
• Basic life insurance
• Flexible PTO
• Additional well-being benefits