Senior Platform Engineer (SRE / DevOps)

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Job Responsibilities

DevOps

• Develop, configure, and support CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate build, test, and deployment workflows to enable safe and repeatable releases.
• Integrate automated quality checks, code scanning, and deployment validations into pipelines.
• Support containerized deployments using Docker and Kubernetes.
• Use Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like Helm to manage cloud infrastructure.
• Participate in automated provisioning of environments and system configurations.
• Embed monitoring and alerting into delivery pipelines.
• Support debugging of build, deployment, and environment issues across Dev/Test/Prod systems.

Site Reliability

• Automate processes to enhance system reliability and resilience.
• Minimize operational incidents through proactive monitoring and maintenance.
• Develop scripts, tools and automation to reduce manual efforts in operational tasks.
• Manage incident response to ensure rapid recovery and minimal disruption.
• Help build and maintain dashboards, alerts, and logs that provide visibility into system health and application behavior.
• Use tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, Splunk, or OpenTelemetry to monitor services and infrastructure.
• Analyze system performance data to guide optimizations and proactively detect issues.
• Adapt to new technologies to maintain and enhance system robustness.
• Contribute to documentation, runbooks, playbooks, and operational readiness reviews.

Required Qualifications

• 4+ years of experience in DevOps and SRE role. Experience in developing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines for software deployment. Experience with Gitlab pipelines and helm.
• 4+ years - Implementing and managing cloud-native platforms and solutions. Hands-on experience with containerization (Docker, Kubernetes).
• 4+ years Hands-on experience with monitoring/logging tools such as Splunk, Grafana, OpenTelemetry and incident management.
• 4+ years - Guiding and mentoring teams in reliability engineering practices.
• Understanding of web protocols, how full stack applications operate and data flows
• Basic knowledge of at least one major cloud platform (AWS preferred).
• Strong communication skills and ability to work under pressure.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience integrating DevSecOps tools like code scanning, policy enforcement or container image validation.
• Understanding of blue/green, canary or rolling deployment strategies.
• Exposure to artifact management, secrets management or GitOps workflows.
• Exposure to incident management frameworks including alerting, escalation and postmortem practices.
• Understanding of Agile methodologies to improve and streamline processes.
• Ability to analyze system performance data to identify trends and improvement opportunities.
• Capability to drive innovation in system management and operations through new technologies and approaches.
• Ability to adapt to new technologies and changes in the digital landscape to maintain system robustness.
• Experience using generative AI tools (e.g., Claude, GitHub Copilot) for development support and task acceleration.

Education :

• Bachelor's Degree plus 3 years of related work experience
  OR advanced degree with 1 year of related work experience
  OR combination of education and experience deemed equivalent (Required)
• Acceptable areas of study include Computer Science, Engineering or related field (Required)

Licenses and Certifications:

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
  This certification validates technical expertise in provisioning, operating, and managing distributed application systems on the AWS platform. (Preferred)
• Certified Kubernetes Administrator
  This certification validates the skills required for day-to-day administration of Kubernetes environments. (Preferred)
• Google Cloud Certified - Professional DevOps Engineer
  This certification validates the ability to efficiently develop and deploy applications using Google Cloud technologies and to manage operations. (Preferred)

• At least 18 years of age
• Legally authorized to work in the United States

The pay range above is the general base pay range for a successful candidate in the role. The successful candidate's actual pay will be based on various factors, such as work location, qualifications, and experience, so the actual starting pay will vary within this range.

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