Platform Engineer

Applause is a recognized Top Workplace providing award-winning software testing and UX research solutions. They are looking for a Platform Engineer to manage core infrastructure, support engineering teams, and enhance the Applause platform's development velocity.

Responsibilities:

• Use infrastructure management tools to manage cloud resources
• Manage infrastructure services such as build automation systems
• Participate in requirements gathering, design reviews, and code reviews
• Develop automation jobs for deployment and management of services
• Participate in management and troubleshooting of infrastructure services
• Perform task-related infrastructure work such as backup/restore and patch management
• Assist engineering teams in troubleshooting their services on the platform
• Participate in on-call rotation for infrastructure services
• Operate all aspects of our internal developer platform and services hosting
• Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

• Experience with infrastructure as code tools such as Chef, Puppet or Ansible
• Experience writing Bash and familiarity with one or more of Go, Python, or Ruby
• Experience with monitoring tools and services such as Nagios, New Relic, or Datadog
• Experience with Linux and familiarity with troubleshooting tools, such as strace, lsof, and netstat
• Experience with Kubernetes and familiarity with operators and Helm
• Familiarity with cloud infrastructure and services such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Familiarity with common build tools for Java, Python, and JavaScript
• Familiarity with continuous integration tools such as Jenkins, TeamCity, or GitHub Actions
• Understanding of distributed computing concepts such as leader election and locking
• Ability to communicate effectively using documents, diagrams, and more informal methods such as chat and email