Sr. Software Platform Engineer

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We are seeking for a Sr. Software Platform Engineer with 5+ years of professional experience in an exciting fast-paced production environment to support AWS Cloud infrastructure for our customer facing e-commerce sites and internal sales agent application.

Responsibilities:

• Deploy and automate infrastructure & platform services in Public Clouds preferably in AWS Cloud using Infrastructure as Code, ie Cloudformation, Terraform, CDK, etc.
• Research and implement new technological subsystems to modernize our infrastructure and work with various groups to maintain our high uptimes and deliverables to various business partners.
• Implement automation and industry best practices to run our large-scale, rapidly growing infrastructure to reduce manual effort and increase team efficiency.
• Prioritize and address production and non-production issues in a timely manner and provide future avoidance solution.
• Implement observability best practices, ie monitoring, alerting, logging, etc to understand the health and availability of infrastructure and applications across Engineering organization.
• Configure and maintain software components, i.e., operating systems, web servers, application environments through Python and Bash in a highly customized environment.
• Participate in team follow the sun (24x7x365) on-call rotation and improve on-call practices and procedures.
• Adopt and implement processes improvement and engineering best practices across organization.
• Support innovation in designs of major components, systems and features.
• Collaborate with Platform team members to complete engineering initiatives.
• Participate in weekly releases and OS patching of infrastructure on regular basis to keep it secure.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields.  
• Must have 5+ years of hands-on public cloud AWS experience, ie EBS, EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront etc.
• Must have 5+ years of hands-on experience with Infrastructure as code, ie Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK.
• Must have 5+ years of hands-on experience with Platform Engineering building an IDP in the area but not limited to DevOps, GitOps, Observability, Security, Network, etc. 
• 5+ year’s professional hands-on strong experience administering Linux operating system environment, preferably in CentOS or RedHat
• 5+ years of professional experience in managing highly available SaaS environment as a DevOps Engineer/ Systems Engineer.
• Proficiency in scripting in Bash and Python automation must be part of your DNA.
• Good working knowledge of enterprise Storage and Backup environments.
• Application experience with web technologies such as Apache, Tomcat etc.
• Solid understanding of technology stack fundamentals such as TCP/IP, HTTP, …