Job Details
Vhi Group Service DAC currently have a fulltime permanent vacancy for the role of Senior Platform Engineer (AWS).
This is a unique opportunity to become a lead member of a specialized cross functional team that will manage & support all change on the AWS Cloud Platform. As a Senior Platform Engineer you will be part of a technical team that will be responsible for Deploying, Automating, Maintaining and Managing high traffic, business critical applications that run on the AWS Platform. You will be a key influencer in maturing and evolving our overall operational & infrastructural operating model for AWS.
Responsibilities will include but are not limited to:
- Be part of the technical team that will be responsible for the reliability of high traffic, business critical applications running on the AWS platform.
- Help the Platform Manager Define & Build out the Platform Operating Model.
- Work to Service Level Agreements (SLAs) & Service Level Objectives (SLOs).
- Design and build monitoring and alerting solutions for AWS to support SLAs and SLOs.
- Troubleshoot issues across the entire stack - platform, application and network.
- Influence development teams to build reliable and scalable applications with resilience and self-healing in mind.
- Work within AWS environment to help optimize the platform and applications.
- Use industry best practices and technologies and translate them into AWS platform best practices.
- Identify opportunities to improve practices by automating processes for the team to ensure a high level of value, productivity, quality and reliability.
- Problem & Incident Management - Act in key support role during incident investigation and remediation.
- Work with the Platform team on the operational& infrastructural support for our various Development / Test / Staging& Production environments.
- Administration and Maintenance of specific AWS Services
- Minimum of 7+ Years’ experience in Supporting Enterprise Systems with 2+ Years in a AWS Production Environment with a bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering or related field or equivalent work experience.
- Deep understanding of AWS and automation concepts, practices and procedures.
- Deep understanding of software\hardware & networking within the AWS Cloud Platform.
- Proven experience working with large scalable, secure and fault tolerant systems.
- Proven experience in Deploying, Automating, Maintaining and Managing Non-Production & Production environments.
- Prove experience in handling and solving system outages.
- Proven experience in implementing monitoring & alerting solutions using automation and observation technologies like NewRelic, Grafana, Helm, Jenkins, Nagios, Prometheus or similar
- Practical experience in container technologies like Kubernetes, and Docker is desirable.
- Practical experience with Windows & Linux administration.
- Practical experience with services in the following areas
- Caching
- Load Balancing
- Web Server (Apache Software)
- Practical experience with common protocols (eg. TLS, STARTTLS, SSL, HTTPS, SCP, SSH, SFTP, FTPS).
- Strong Knowledge and experience with cloud security concepts (e.g. IAM policies, federation, AWS inspector, Security Hub etc).
- Some Experience with programming in Python, Java, Ruby, Scala, Go, or similar programming & scripting languages.
- Analytical; solves problems at root cause and prioritizes effectively.
- Very strong verbal and nonverbal communicator. Adept at explaining complex technical concepts and share your knowledge with diverse audiences with a collaborative and team oriented work approach.
- Experience gaining consensus among a large, diverse group of stakeholders. Able to easily motivate and inspire team members, peers, stakeholders and executives.
- Demonstrate alignment to the Vhi values