[Remote] Platform Engineer
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Coforge is hiring an experienced Senior Platform Engineer with a strong software engineering foundation. This role involves leading efforts to ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of applications and platforms, while also mentoring team members and managing deployments.
Responsibilities
- Coaching and mentoring fellow team members
- Handle deployments to AWS and Kubernetes platforms
- Provide support for the AWS and Kubernetes platforms, focusing on the customer-facing applications the team supports
- Manage mobile applications in the App and Play stores, including deployments
- Automate deployment processes and develop and refine infrastructure as code
- Work with a global team to ensure high availability and scalability within the platform
- Collaborate with SREs to resolve platform-related issues
- Use Splunk and similar tools to monitor and troubleshoot platform issues
- Handle content delivery by utilizing contentful templates
Skills
- Experience as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and/or Platform Engineer
- Superb written and oral communication skills
- Extensive experience with observability and monitoring, especially with Open Telemetry, Splunk, AppDynamics, and Datadog
- Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and/or OpenShift
- Background in DevOps practices – Exposure to how pipelines are setup and how to debug issues if any error occurs as part of deployment
- Scripting experience with Python, Node.js, or TypeScript
- Good debugging skills to dig deep and figure out the root cause of the problem in quick turnaround time
- Experience with disaster recovery, business continuity planning, Linux, and shell scripting
- Possess a 'Can Do' attitude, with a view to moving the business forward
- Demonstrated skill and passion for operational excellence and solution delivery
- Experience in applying compliance requirements, industry best practices, and external knowledge
- A Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field Consulting experience
- Deep background working in Agile methodology
- Knowledge of cloud-native application architecture design patterns
- Proven ability to assist in leading small to medium-sized teams
- ITIL Foundation certification
- AWS, Azure, or GCP certifications
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