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Senior Platform Engineer (PTA)

Job Description - Senior Platform Engineer (PTA)

A senior-level Platform Engineering opportunity for an experienced engineer with a
strong track record of building scalable, production-grade platforms and self-service
capabilities for engineering teams. The ideal candidate will bring deep expertise across
AWS, Kubernetes, GitOps, Infrastructure as Code, automation and internal
developer platforms, with a strong focus on building reliable, scalable and cloud
native solutions.



Expert Knowledge 
  • AWS cloud architecture and services, with strong understanding of AWS best
    practices and the Well-Architected Framework.

  • Building platform APIs, automation, system-level tooling and/or internal developer
    platforms.

  • Infrastructure as Code tooling and practices, including Terraform, CDK, Pulumi and
    Crossplane.

  • Container orchestration principles and Kubernetes; CKA certification preferable.
    • Cloud-native systems, distributed systems and service architectures, including
    associated design trade-offs.

  • Building and operating scalable, secure and highly available platforms within AWS
    environments.



Requirements

Requirements 
  • 5+ years of experience in a Platform Engineering capacity – building self-service
    platforms and abstractions used by other engineering teams.

  • 2 - 3+ years of experience as a Software Engineer using languages such as Java,
    JavaScript, Golang or Python.

  • 6+ years of experience working with Public Cloud, with strong hands-on AWS
    experience.

  • 6+ years of experience with containerisation and container platforms.
  • Strong experience with Kubernetes GitOps practices using ArgoCD / Flux and
    Helm/Kustomize.

  • Strong experience implementing monitoring and observability solutions using tools
    such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and X-Ray.

  • Strong understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions
    and GitLab CI/CD.

  • Proven experience building complex, production-grade platforms and making these
    available for self-service consumption by engineering teams.

  • Hands-on experience with Crossplane, ArgoCD and Backstage is non
    negotiable.

  • Proven experience building Kubernetes Operators is non-negotiable.


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