About the position
The Senior Platform Engineer works as part of the -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. 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
JOB DESCRIPTION
- Implement and verify -Mid computing platform - Work in collaboration with the Software team to define and implement the Continuous Delivery/Continuous Integration pipeline for the 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 construction and operations
- Work with system/array integration team, supporting integration and testing
- Be an integral member of the -Mid Computing and Software team, as a senior technical specialist that supports the establishment of -Mid 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
JOB REQUIREMENTS
Qualification:
- BTech/ Degree/ Masters/ PHD in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related fields
Experience:
- BTech coupled with 13 years relevant working experience or Degree coupled with 9 years relevant working experience or Masters· coupled with 7 years relevant working experience or 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).
Knowledge:
- 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 Additional Notes
Desired Skills:
- Docker
- Helm
- Ansible
- Terraform
- • Linux operating system
- • Teamwork and Collaboration
