Platform Engineer (Software Engineer)

Platform Engineer - Fully Remote

High-Performance Payments scale-up with Tier 1 backing and leadership.

This is a heavy coding role.

This person will be focused on internal tooling, helping to make engineers and PM's live's easier!

You will go very deep - Generally the first people in the company that will build out tooling and other things.

Solving local environment problems - All the way through to developing them into products

You will be responsible for a set of your own services i.e. Leading customer configuration services.

You don't need IaC experience, although it would be nice to have.

More important would be experience with Kubernetes, CI/CD writing, tooling, libraries etc.

You will need to understand deployment pipelines, debug, be deep software engineers and more.

You will help with metrics and telemetry… i.e. number of transactions p/second (What is the latency?? What is p99 vs 90??)

You will be consistently communicating with other engineers so you will need to have strong communication skills.

Responsibilities

1. Collaborate with engineering teams to enhance development and deployment workflows
2. Manage, secure, and optimize multiple Kubernetes environments
3. Evaluate, implement, and automate new technologies and infrastructure solutions
4. Support the assessment and integration of new services
5. Ensure production-grade quality of releases in collaboration with team engineers
6. Identify and address performance bottlenecks, working with engineering to optimize applications and infrastructure
7. Participate in incident response, contribute to post-mortem analyses, and drive preventative improvements
8. Conduct capacity planning for Kubernetes clusters, monitoring resource utilization and recommending scaling strategies

Required

1. Proven experience in managing service-oriented architectures and/or container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes)
2. Minimum 8 years of experience in DevOps or related roles
3. Strong project development and leadership capabilities
4. Need to be strong coders
5. Great communication skills - Speaking with different dev teams constantly
6. Ownership over work - Proactive
7. Need to be adaptable - Need ability to switch programming languages