Platform Engineer

Description

Provide expertise in the design, implementation, and operation of scalable distributed systems to assist development teams in making the right decisions early Develop new methods and tools to automate and selfheal production environments Apply software development workflows to operational environments Test and tune newly developed systems to prepare them for production deployment and ensure maximum performance at minimum cost Automate packaging, deployment, and configuration of internally developed applications Measure everything, providing critical operational insight into our applications Become and stay an expert in our internal applications, from the highlevel architecture down to the code Implement new application features, especially features supporting operational excellence stability, scalability, redundancy, etc. Build tools that make your colleagues more effective Lead, coach and grow our DevOps practice by bridging development, Ops and QA Become and stay an expert in current and emerging technologies and tools Contribute to Open Source solutions and communities we use wherever you canYour tech friends would say you really know about scalable infrastructure ran production services in the cloud (AWS) and know where it's awesome and where it hurts are a great communicator make things work and get things done love to leave things better than how you found them really grok your CI (jenkins, etc), config management (puppet) and VCS tools (git) love to automate anything you've done more than twice can write a oneliner for anything, but know when not to are fluent in at least one programming language (preferably python, Scala, and/or Java, but any language will do) can't go to sleep knowing your tests or monitors are failing love to learn new things and can do so quickly you don't just use the code, you contribute