Sr. Cloud Platform Engineer

As a Sr Engineer you will be considered a technical expert in one or more phases of application and/or systems engineering. This includes providing design recommendations based on long-term IT organization strategy and expertise regarding the integration of applications across the business. You will determine specifications, plan, design, and develop business critical software solutions, utilizing appropriate software engineering processes - either individually or in concert with product team.

Designing Solutions
Apply technical knowledge to drive outcomes for customers
Ability to work and problem solve independently on initiatives that align and supports the broader software engineering strategy

Implementing Solutions
Member of team that can work independently, as well as collaboratively with team, in developing core processes and automation for the product that delivers outcomes.
Consistent and dependable in delivering core processes and automation that delivers outcomes and meets/exceeds the teams expectations for stability, scalability, resilience, etc.

Learning and Applying New Techniques
Shares new ideas and techniques with team; Encourages other engineers to invest in learning as a part of their job.

Collaborating within the Team
Participate in team's collaboration sessions to provide technical expertise to solve a problem/remove technical roadblocks for the team
Participate in product planning and implementation. Helps team to understand and decompose work

Defining Engineering Standards and Patterns
Contribute to develop engineering practices , templates and frameworks in collaboration with the team.

DevOps
Continuously assessing technology to build more stable, scalable, and resilient software; Use data to measure progress
Promote and expand on the use of the CI/CD pipeline to improve the deployment and build process.
Participates in the team support rotation and provides expert knowledge on focus subsystems.

Selecting & Managing Technology Vendors
Contribute to define the selection criteria for selecting the right technology vendors
Participate in proof of concept / technology along with the vendor

Coaching Engineers
Provide guidance to the engineering community to assist with optimal plaform utilization.
Provide technical expertise and help the team to solve technical/software issues.
Provide domain expertise on platform products in their area to engineering community to help them learn/grow their skills.

Education
Required:
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience

Required Work Experience / Skills
4+ years of experience in engineering environments, taking abstract concepts and ideas and formulating a detailed software engineering plan to deliver
Sound knowledge of industry standard Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) practices
Sound knowledge of version and revision control practices and procedures
Sound knowledge of systems design concepts that provide security and stability
Expertise in debugging code and/or complex log files for troubleshooting and analysis of product defects
Perform code reviews with team members

Preferred Work Experience / Skills
Kubernetes cluster administration (OpenShift preferred)
Sound knowledge of Linux Environments (RHEL, CentOS and/or Fedora)
Java Web Application Server Administration (Apache Tomcat, Tanzu TC Server and/or IBM Websphere preferred)
Apache HTTP Server Administration
AWS Experience (EC2 and/or Lambda)
Intermediate script writing (Bash and/or Python)
Sound knowledge automation tools(Ansible, Terraform, and/or GitHub Actions)
Configuring and analyzing telemetry from observability tools (DataDog, ELK and/or Prometheus)