Principal Member of Technical Staff - Platform

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Requirements:

• 8+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or a related field.
• Proven experience with AWS, Kubernetes, Docker, Terraform, Jenkins, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Expertise in Elasticsearch, Prometheus, Grafana, Kafka, and message brokers (RabbitMQ, Debezium).
• Proficient in scripting and automation (Python, Ruby, Groovy).
• Hands-on experience with static code analysis tools like RoboCop and ESLint.
• Experience in managing and migrating cloud infrastructure, especially on AWS.
• Strong knowledge of security practices and compliance frameworks, especially SOC2.
• Familiarity with PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and supporting microservice architecture.
• Excellent communication and leadership skills with the ability to mentor and lead a team.
• Experience in cost optimization of cloud services.

Responsibilities:

• Lead the Platform Team: Provide technical guidance and mentorship to a team of 3 engineers focusing on DevOps infrastructure and microservices platform improvement.
• CI/CD Optimization: Improve and automate our continuous integration and deployment (CI/CD) release system, using Jenkins, Groovy, and BitBucket Commit API.
• Pipeline Development: Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for generating HTTP client libraries using Swagger-Codegen.
• Static Code Analysis: Oversee improvements to our static code analysis tools and processes, working with technologies like RoboCop and ESLint.
• API Documentation Automation: Streamline API documentation by integrating Swagger-Codegen into our development workflow.
• Alerting and Monitoring Systems: Enhance our monitoring systems (Prometheus) by reducing alert noise and establishing more accurate alert routing mechanisms to service owners.
• Cloud Infrastructure Migration: Lead the migration of our Elasticsearch cluster to AWS for more robust and scalable log collection.
• Cost Optimization: Work closely with the engineering team to reduce our cloud infrastructure costs without sacrificing performance or reliability.
• Microservices Deployment: Collaborate with Product teams to deploy new microservices, ensuring smooth integration and minimal downtime.
• Security & Compliance: Support SecOps in maintaining SOC2 Type II compliance, security audits, and responding to security incidents.
• Production Support: Triage and respond to production incidents, ensuring high availability and reliability of our systems.
• Infrastructure Support: Oversee the management and support of existing infrastructure, including Postgres, MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Kafka, and Elasticsearch.