Senior Platform Engineer

Summary

Join Jobandtalent as a Platform Engineer and contribute to the future of work. You will maintain, improve, and propose new technologies for the platform, collaborating with development and data science teams. Responsibilities include managing the service lifecycle, ensuring system health, automating processes, and advocating for scalable system design. You will also contribute to internal tooling and participate in on-call rotations. The ideal candidate possesses experience in distributed environments, DevOps, AWS services, container technologies (especially EKS), and automation/programming (Golang/Python). Excellent communication skills are essential. Jobandtalent offers competitive salaries and benefits, opportunities for professional growth, and a chance to make a significant impact.

Requirements

• Experience setting up and maintaining distributed environments know how to design, implement and operate services with functional, scalability or costs constraints
• Experience working in a DevOps focused culture environment, where the team you’ll join will be providing support to feature teams to accelerate time to market thru tools and baselines offered
• Experience in AWS services and container-related technologies, specially EKS
• Experience in automation and programming to keep Infrastructure as Code. Knowledge of Golang/Python, as most of the tools we provide to the teams, and we are owners of are coded in that language
• Commitment to provide well-tested, performing and high-quality services and strong skill capabilities to push it forward
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills. Ability to communicate effectively with technical communities
• Able to join the on call rotation according to the schedule
• Continuously discover, evaluate, and implement new technologies to maximise development efficiency
• Experience working as a Sysadmin/Platform engineer in production on services with high traffic

Responsibilities

• Engage in and improve the whole lifecycle of Services—from inception and design, through deployment, operation and refinement
• Whiteboard a fix to a scaling problem -- and then make it happen
• Maintain Services once they are live by measuring and monitoring availability, latency and overall system health
• End-to-end responsibility for the Services that we own, including taking part in an On-Call rotation, practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
• Automate as much as humanly possible and always configure as Code
• Advocate sensible, scalable, systems design and share responsibility within the organisation in diagnosing, resolving and preventing production issues through mechanisms like automation
• Evolve Services by pushing for changes that improve reliability and velocity
• Contribute to our Internal Tooling set that helps us improve our Operations processes, manage our Infrastructure, and scale our Systems

Benefits

• Competitive salaries and benefits
• Opportunities for professional growth