Platform Operations Engineer

Client: EdTech

Title: Platform Operations Engineer

Duration: Long Term

Location: 100% Remote

About the Opportunity    

·        As an Engineer on the Platform Operations team, you are a gifted technologist and problem solver.

·        You understand cloud software delivery, tools, and processes that empower efficient and resilient delivery that adheres to top-notch development practices.

·        You are technologically curious and seek out opportunities to research emerging technologies and trends, standards, and products.

·        Your excellent communication and collaboration skills allow you to effectively articulate solutions to the development community, enabling all to succeed.

·        You are communicative, approachable, self-driven, and collaborative.   

In this role, you will: 

Design & Implementation (75%) 

• Build solutions using the best practices of Agile, CI/CD, and DevOps 

• Continuously develop the skills required to work as part of the agile team in a poly-skilled development environment 

• Write code to automate the infrastructure lifecycle, create and support internal tools utilizing IaC, and be able to use CLIs 

• Partner with domain SMEs (Delivery Team Software Engineers, Security, Infrastructure, Network, Observability and Operations) to research, analyze and implement features and capabilities  

• Contribute to the development and growth of the Cloud Engineering Program, through thought leadership, design and implementation of tools and processes 

Team Operations & Success (25%) 

• Implement cloud-first architectural solutions and best practices 

• Participate in agile scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Grooming, Daily SCRUM, Demo, Retro) and contribute to team deliverables 

• Participate in peer reviews of software engineering artifacts 

• Maintain, operate and monitor Platform products and infrastructure  

• Assist in the identification and resolution of production and production-like issues 

• Ensure the team is adhering to development standards and security policies and procedures   

You have: 

• 3+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD framework, immutable infrastructure, automation, orchestration, and other modern DevOps patterns 

• Technical knowledge of Cloud Computing, DevOps, and Microservices 

• Strong knowledge and experience with distributed cloud infrastructure within AWS

• Experience working with AWS resources such as Lambda, SNS, SQS, S3, Step Functions, EC2, ECS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, DynamoDB is a plus 

• Experience building event-driven Cloud-based serverless applications 

• Coding/scripting experience with Python, JavaScript, React.js, Node.js

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with an ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language 

• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain good customer working relationships 

• Exceptional analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities 

• Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment