Principal Platform Engineer

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Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience in Linux systems engineering roles supporting bare metal servers and virtualization/container platforms
• 3+ years’ Kubernetes administration experience on Red Hat OpenShift.
• Experience building and managing infrastructure in both public cloud and physical data center environments using IaC tools
• 5+ years’ experience with enterprise monitoring and logging solutions like Prometheus, ELK, or similar
• Proven ability to automate the right things in the simplest way possible (scripts, config management tools, CI pipelines, RHOS Operators, etc.)
• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals and storage technologies
• Competency in at least one high level programming language (i.e., Golang, Python, etc.)
• Experience supporting customer-facing SaaS products

Responsibilities:

• translate high level platform design into low level technical design and are responsible for implementing, administering, supporting, and patching their corresponding platforms.
• Installs, configures, and monitors applications and services in the OpenShift cluster.
• Continually assesses technical components to recommend platform improvements, translating high-level design and RHOS best practices into low-level technical configuration.
• Ensures the ongoing stability, availability, performance, and security compliance of the platform to meet customer SLAs; authors and executes test cases to validate
• Collaborates with software delivery teams and architects to build and support self-service mechanisms, CI/CD pipelines, and k8s operators that simplify and accelerate service delivery, in accordance with DevOps and Agile frameworks
• Maintains the catalog of services for the platform in collaboration with Engineering.
• Instruments and optimizes application, system, and cluster performance.
• Forecasts and plans capacity increases to ensure resource availability for engineering teams while meeting budget targets.
• Helps build and implement Disaster Recovery / Business Continuity plan; conducts related testing of recovery procedures.
• Helps determine Platform roadmap, manage projects and ticket-based work; ensures these are clearly communicated with stakeholders at all levels.
• Provides thought leadership on DevOps and Platform Engineering-centric system and process design, giving constructive input to engineers and leaders on proposals and best practices.
• Builds internal documentation and artifacts describing the mechanisms used for deployment, monitoring, and operators.
• Leads by showing: mentors and helps develop engineers in a highly demonstrative and collaborative way
• Participates in an on-call rotation with fellow team members