Initiate and actively drive the adoption of good patterns, structures and use of technologies for development and operations
Investigate and identify practices and work that can benefit from automation
Monitor and suggest improvements to the existing CI/CD process to increase speed, safety and reliability
Implement and coordinate implementation with the parties involved
Develop and maintain existing /GitLab CI pipeline libraries
Assist developers with setting up CI/CD for their projects and provide support for any issues that may arise
Stay up to date with the latest tools and trends in the industry
Provide senior-level, best practice recommendations and implementations to our Windows, Linux and Kubernetes hosting environments
Function as a mentor to junior team members, providing technical guidance and recommending continued learning opportunities to help them develop
Educate fellow team members as well as Application Development Teams about the platforms used-for and hosted-by our team. Key tools and concepts in this space are: Gitlab, Docker, AWS, Terraform, Istio Service Mesh, Kubernetes , Kafka, ELK
Work with our Security team to remediate high-risk vulnerabilities and ensure the security of our environments are being scrutinized as appropriate for their use case
Offer services related to the above tasks and projects to any of the Companies of the Group as instructed by the Line Manager

University degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a similar discipline
7+ years’ experience within the following areas: **Cloud ( AWS), Release Pipeline Management, Windows Server Administration, Linux Administration, Certificate Management, PowerShell scripting, Bash/python scripting, Configuration Management and IAC (Ansible/Terraform), DNS, Networking **
Enterprise-level **Kubernetes **experience
Solid Linux administration skills
Commitment to continuous improvement, with a focus on observability, modern application architecture styles, blue-green / canary deployments, CI/CD pipeline management
Ability to self-motivate, study, and stay on-top of emerging technologies and trends, while meeting business deadlines
Experience with tools including: Istio, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, MSK, New Relic

Senior Platform Engineer – DevOps

Key skills