Senior Platform Engineer

• Bachelor's degree or relevant work experience.
• At least 10 years in active Development roles.
• Experience with most of the technology used, but specifically Terraform and Docker.
• Have strong operational experience with AWS, Linux and MySQL.
• Professional, Self-motivated attitude.
• Proficient in written and oral English communication.
• Eager to learn, open to constructive criticism and willing to be a team player in delivering the best solutions possible.
• Be comfortable working in an agile and fast-paced environment.
• Seasoned communicator, proficient in technical and business/ functional aspects of the software development process.
• Team player and willing to go beyond the call of duty when the need arises.

• Your mission will be to build and maintain vertical independent infrastructure, development pipelines and software services and set group-wide platform engineering standards.
• Assist in Research, P.O.C and implementation of new technologies or services to be adopted by the entire Group.
• Configuration and management of various servers/instances via Docker, Terraform and Ansible.
• Everything runs on docker, but we are still in the process of moving legacy over to docker.
• Write scripts and automation using Bash/Python/Groovy.
• Reviewing and approving the work of your peers as part of the software development process.
• Maintaining our Cloud Infrastructure primarily on AWS.
• Maintaining the reliability of our CI/CD.
• Build independent web-based tools and microservices to help dev workflows.
• Planning and Implementation of backup scenarios, log-rotations and overall scaling concepts for large datasets.
• Keep abreast with industry trends, new technologies and best practices in the DevOps and development space.
• Proactively improve products, systems and processes.
• Deliver software and projects according to agreed timelines.
• Tenacity and the ability to solve complex software bugs.

• Debian/Ubuntu
• Nginx
• Docker/Terraform/Ansible
• Fargate ECS & EKS/RDS Aurora
• Laravel/PHP/MySQL/Elasticsearch based web application
• .NET Core/MSSQL/Elasticsearch based web application
• Android/Java-based mobile apps
• Memcached/Redis/SQS
• Datadog/Pingdom/Pagerduty
• Jenkins
• GitHub
• AWS
• Cloudflare
• OKTA





Originally posted on Himalayas