Senior Platform Development Engineering Specialist

​POSITION DESCRIPTION:

Essential:

• 4+ years’ experience in Unix OS and ideally recent experience in container orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, etc) and a scripting language (e.g. Python, Bash)

• 4+ years’ experience of at least one major cloud provider (GCP, AWS, Azure) and Kubernetes experience

• Strong experience of Site Reliability Engineering practices and principles

• Strong experience in operational monitoring and dash-boarding for applications (ELK, SonarQube, Prometheus, Grafana)

• Experience with containers and orchestration frameworks (Docker, k8s)

• Experience with source code management and version control (Git/GitHub/GitLab)

• Experience with modern CI/CD tools and techniques

• Previous involvement in all stages of the software delivery lifecycle

• Passion for mentoring and technical coaching of engineers

• Excellent verbal and written communication skills

• Collaborative skills - being open to pair programming and working closely with engineers in cross functional teams

• Infrastructure provisioning tools e.g. Terraform, Ansible

• Good automation skills, including experience with unit testing and automated testing tools

• Experience of operating enterprise scale production systems alongside monitoring and telemetry practices (SonarQube, Prometheus, Grafana)

• Solid understanding of networking concepts, technologies, and protocols (TCP/IP, IPSec, HTTP, FTP, DHCP, and DNS)

Desirable:

• Experience of Software Engineering with Go, Java, JavaScript or another language

• Knowledge of Microservices architectures, RESTful APIs and message queues

• Experience operating bespoke built enterprise scale cloud-native microservice applications

• Experience with database technologies such as MySQL or NoSQL technologies (e.g. MongoDB)