Encora

PlatformEngineer

$135–195k ~AI est. United States Remote Friendly
Market Sentiment
HIGH DEMAND

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The Brief

“Platform Engineer at Encora. Skills: Platform engineering, DevOps, Cloud infrastructure, Automation. Lead efforts for reliability. Lead efforts for availability”

Industry & Context.

Problems you'll solve

Debugging; Root cause analysis; Troubleshooting

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

Experience as Site Reliability Engineer, Experience as Platform Engineer, Experience with AWS, Experience with Kubernetes, Experience with OpenShift, Scripting experience with Python, Scripting experience with Node.js, Scripting experience with TypeScript, Experience with disaster recovery, Experience with business continuity planning, Experience with Linux, Experience with shell scripting

Nice to Have

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Master's degree in Computer Science, Degree in Engineering, Degree in related technical field, Consulting experience, Experience in Agile methodology, Knowledge of cloud-native application architecture, Assist in leading small teams, Assist in leading medium-sized teams, ITIL Foundation certification, AWS certification, Azure certification, GCP certification

What You'll Do.

Lead efforts for reliability

Lead efforts for availability

Lead efforts for performance

Uplift technology platforms

Maintain technology platforms

Uplift infrastructure

Maintain infrastructure

Maintain applications

Uplift technology controls

Maintain technology controls

Oversight for production operations

Engineering solutions

Maximize system reliability

Partner with Infrastructure teams

Partner with SRE teams

Partner with Development teams

Improve system reliability

Handle deployments to AWS

Handle deployments to Kubernetes

Provide support for AWS

Provide support for Kubernetes

Manage mobile applications

Automate deployment processes

Develop infrastructure as code

Refine infrastructure as code

Ensure high availability

Resolve platform issues

Monitor platform issues

Troubleshoot platform issues

Handle content delivery

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

Global team; Infrastructure teams; SRE teams; Development teams; Cross-functional teams

Communication Scope

Written communication; Oral communication

Process & Methodology

Agile methodology

Full Job Description

As a Senior Platform Engineer at Encora, your role is to lead efforts and ensure the reliability, availability, and performance of applications and platforms. As a Senior Platform Engineer your role is to lead efforts and be responsible for both uplifting and maintaining our client’s evolving technology platforms, infrastructure, applications, and technology controls. As a Senior Platform Engineer, the role will include both oversight for production operations of systems, as well as development/engineering of solutions to maximize system reliability & automation. You’ll work with a global team responsible for end-customer-facing, business-critical applications. You will partner with Infrastructure, SRE, and Development teams to identify issues and improve system reliability. Your 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 Qualifications 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 OpenTelemetry, 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

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