Vention
Manufacturing Automation
Senior/StaffPlatformDeveloper
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“Senior / Staff Platform Developer at Vention. Skills: Platform Development, DevSecOps, Cloud Engineering, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, Observability. Developing the internal development platform. Promoting the DevSecOps practice”
What You'll Achieve.
Increase developer productivity; Increase observability; Increase operational reliability; Increase cloud/application cybersecurity; Ensure upgrade paths for tools and software packages before they reach end-of-support status; Ensure adequate monitoring for uptime and health of cloud and embedded production systems; Create playbooks for dealing with emergency production downtime scenarios; Ensure a nimble, cost-effective cloud self-served platform; Close the gap between edge deployments (embedded controllers) and the production cloud platform; Create data pipeline architecture that are used for analytics and machine learning training; Ensure proper performance, reliability and security observability of all production software and systems; Establish deployment and continuous improvement of infrastructure services; Optimize AWS cost and infrastructure; Create efficient cloud architecture
Industry & Context.
Solving complex challenges
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
7 - 15+ years in DevOps/Platform engineering or in a similar software engineering role, Good knowledge of any of the modern programming languages, understanding of overall web software architecture, Experience with managing and optimizing one of the following PaaS: GCP; or Azure, Experience in establishing server monitoring and creating automated reporting and observability with tools such as Datadog, Sentry, SumoLogic, etc., understanding of deploying and orchestrating containers (Kubernetes, Docker etc. ), targeting tiny and large hardware platforms (from arm-based embedded devices to large multi-tenant systems), A solid understanding of architecture trade-offs (reliability, performance, security, maintainability, testability, operability, etc), Experience with modem CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc., Experience with configuration management & provisioning experience with knowledge of infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform, Experience with implementation of cloud cybersecurity best practices, Experience with linux platforms, scripting, networking, etc., Experience with incremental building and caching, Experience with dependency management, Experience with operation and deploying IoT systems, A good understanding of cost trade-offs (at deployment, build-time, run-time, development-time, and with respect to hardware resources)
Nice to Have
Knowledge of Kubernetes
What You'll Do.
Developing the internal development platform
Promoting the DevSecOps practice
Increasing developer productivity
operational reliability and cloud/application cybersecurity
Managing software inventory and lifecycle
Ensuring upgrade paths for tools and software packages
Ensuring adequate monitoring for uptime and health of cloud and embedded production systems
Establishing troubleshooting best practices
Creating playbooks for emergency production downtime scenarios
Participating in the development of Vention’s Internal Development Platform
Participating in the development of scalable
highly-availability and secure cloud environments
Participating in the development of secure solutions for vulnerability scanning
and dependency management
Building and establishing Vention’s code pipeline (CI/CD)
cost-effective cloud self-served platform
Creating solutions to close the gap between edge deployments (embedded controllers) and the production cloud platform
Creating data pipeline architecture for analytics and machine learning training
Ensuring proper performance
reliability and security observability of all production software and systems
Working with development teams to ensure DevSecOps best practices are followed
Working with development teams to establish deployment and continuous improvement of infrastructure services
Participating in incident response
forensic and post mortem activities
Establishing troubleshooting best practices
Optimizing AWS cost and infrastructure
Working with teams to create efficient cloud architecture
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Highly collaborative role; Hands-on interactions with all development leaders and senior technology management; Work with development teams to ensure DevSecOps best practices are followed; Work with development teams to establish deployment and continuous improvement of infrastructure services
Communication Scope
Excellent teamwork and communication skills
Full Job Description
Headquartered in Montreal and Berlin, Vention helps manufacturers automate their operations in record time with the only hardware and software AI-powered platform built for the factory floor. Our technology powers over 25,000 machines across 4,000 factories across 5 continents and we have the privilege to work with a significant proportion of Fortune 500 manufacturers, from space rockets, to electrical cars, to robotics. At Vention, you’ll work alongside driven and talented people who care deeply about their craft and the impact they create. We’re a team of high achievers who grow through meaningful work, solving complex challenges, learning fast, and seeing the results of our efforts every day. We move quickly and aim high, but we do it together with care, collaboration, and respect. Our culture celebrates diverse perspectives and supports your growth through intentional development, strong leadership, and opportunities to make a real difference. As a Senior/Staff Platform Developer at Vention, you will focus on developing the internal development platform and promoting the DevSecOps practice to increase developer productivity, observability, operational reliability and cloud/application cybersecurity through well-orchestrated automated services for code/configuration and delivery across development and production environments. You will be a key player for managing our software inventory and lifecycle and ensure we have upgrade paths for our tools and software packages before they reach end-of-support status. You will also be responsible for ensuring that all of our cloud and embedded production systems have adequate monitoring for uptime and health. You will participate in the establishment of troubleshooting best practices and create playbooks for dealing with emergency production downtime scenarios. Exemplary documentation skills will be needed to create guides and thorough inventory/statuses around our systems and best practices. This is a highly collaborative
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