Platform Infrastructure Engineer

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Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• 4+ years proven experience managing web applications deployed on the Heroku platform.
• Experience with Python/Django.
• Familiarity with observability tools such as Datadog, including monitoring performance and error tracking.
• Strong proficiency in command line tools and scripting.
• Familiarity with OpenSearch, Airflow, and OLAP data stores is ideal but not required.
• Experience in resource monitoring and usage optimization.
• Proficiency in building developer experience tooling and improving developer environments.
• Solid understanding of database management for web applications.
• Strong collaboration and communication skills.
• Ability to make thoughtful, actionable recommendations and build consensus across Product Development teams.

Responsibilities:

• Manage multiple Python/Django web apps deployed to Heroku, including scaling and resource allocation.
• Improve and standardize the use of observability tooling (Datadog) for better monitoring and alerting.
• Build out tooling for standing up new web applications and managing existing web applications.
• Empower developers to deploy and monitor web apps via command line tools.
• Support database management for web applications deployed on Heroku.
• Maintain and improve Product Engineering developer environments.
• Interface with AWS Dev Ops team on shared infrastructure.
• Manage developer access and permissions to web platform deployment tools.
• Collaborate with IT Security team for pentest infrastructure and SOC accreditation compliance.
• Make recommendations on hosting resource allocation.