Senior Platform Engineer

About The Role:

The Senior Platform Engineer role is responsible for designing, building, problem-solving, troubleshooting, and maintaining platforms within the current technology environment. The role involves analyzing complex technical problems, developing appropriate solutions to maintain the overall integrity of the platform, including operating systems, hardware and software infrastructure that are critical to the company's user populace and application environments. They collaborate with other IT professionals such as Application, Architect, and Database Engineers to ensure that all components of the platform are working efficiently, securely, and resiliently. The Senior Platform Engineer uses their extensive knowledge of both traditional and modern platforms to ensure high performance and reliability of the company's infrastructure, including both cloud and on-premises systems, in support of DevOps efforts and general business and IT objectives.

Responsibilities:

• Maintain the platform hardware, software, and network requirements in alignment with business needs and organizational standards defined
• Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues as they arise to continuously improve platforms in alignment with application goals
• Manage and configure DevOps tools (such as API Gateway, Teraform) to support processes as per organizational needs
• Collaborate with DevOps engineering and production team to update, troubleshoot and maintain platforms and environments to bring new features and services into production
• Identify, prioritize, implement and maintain automated and orchestrated fulfillment mechanisms to optimize delivery of key platform services
• Coordinate the tasks of other teams that work within the target platform to ensure smooth operations
• Identify and mitigate security threats to comply with a strict security compliance
• Develop and implement security and resiliency policies, standards, and procedures to protect the infrastructure and ensure compliance with regulations
• Produce high-level design documentation where required
• Conduct technical research regarding user requests for new/modified systems or problem resolution
• Manage vendor relationships and discussions related to design docs, platform changes, and other modifications, as needed

Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's staff, employees, and business relationships.

Qualifications:

Required Knowledge & Experience

• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering and infrastructure components
• Min 2+ years' experience with Solace or other event drive platforms.
• Solid working knowledge with Integration patterns API Real time Integration.
• Hands on experience in setting up pub sub cloud, pub sub on premise and event mesh at least in 1 customer place / enterprise scaled project.
• Experience in automated interaction with physical infrastructure
• Experience in managing and maintaining cloud-based environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Experience in Hybrid Integration Platform & IPaas capabilities.
• Exposure on PubSub+ Monitor.
• Experience in developing and implementing backup and disaster recovery strategies
• Excellent scripting experience in languages such as Python, PowerShell, and Bash
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, and Terraform

Technical Skills

• Programming Languages
• Cloud Technologies & Platforms
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
• DevOps Methodology
• Software Packaging and Deployment Procedures
• Operating Systems
• Network Operations, Configuration, & Services
• Containerization
• Monitoring and Logging
• Integration Technology

Preferred

• 4+ years of experience in implementing DevOps
• 4+ years of experience in Azure or AWS or OCI
• 2+ years of hands-on experience with Github Actions workflows

Travel

10%