Vention
Technology
Senior/StaffPlatformDeveloper
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“Senior / Staff Platform Developer at Vention. Skills: Platform development, DevSecOps, Cloud environments, CI/CD pipeline. Develop internal development platform. Promote DevSecOps practice”
What You'll Achieve.
Increase developer productivity; Increase observability; Increase operational reliability; Increase cloud/application cybersecurity; Ensure upgrade paths before end-of-support; Ensure adequate monitoring for uptime; Ensure adequate monitoring for health; Ensure nimble, cost-effective cloud self-served platform; Close gap between edge and cloud; Optimize AWS cost and infrastructure
Industry & Context.
Solving complex challenges; Troubleshooting; Incident response; Forensic analysis; Post mortem analysis
What They're Looking For.
Must Have
7 - 15+ years in DevOps/Platform engineering, Good knowledge of modern programming languages, Understanding of overall web software architecture, Experience managing and optimizing GCP or Azure, Experience establishing server monitoring, Experience creating automated reporting and observability, Understanding of deploying and orchestrating containers, Solid understanding of architecture trade-offs, Experience with modern CI/CD platforms, Experience with configuration management & provisioning, Knowledge of infrastructure as code tools, Experience with implementation of cloud cybersecurity best practices, Experience with Linux platforms, Experience with scripting, Experience with networking, Experience with incremental building and caching, Experience with dependency management, Experience with operation and deploying IoT systems, Good understanding of cost trade-offs
Nice to Have
Kubernetes experience a plus, Experience with Datadog, Sentry, SumoLogic etc. a plus, Experience with Terraform a plus, Experience with GitHub Actions, CircleCI etc. a plus, Experience with embedded devices a plus, Experience with multi-tenant systems a plus
What You'll Do.
Develop internal development platform
Promote DevSecOps practice
Increase developer productivity
Increase observability
Increase operational reliability
Increase cloud/application cybersecurity
Manage software inventory
Manage software lifecycle
Ensure upgrade paths for tools
Ensure upgrade paths for software packages
Ensure adequate monitoring for uptime
Ensure adequate monitoring for health
Establish troubleshooting best practices
Create playbooks for downtime scenarios
Create guides for systems
Create guides for best practices
Create inventory statuses
Create status for systems
Create status for best practices
Interact with development leaders
Interact with senior technology management
Guide DevSecOps initiatives
Implement DevSecOps initiatives
Promote DevSecOps initiatives
Participate in internal development platform development
Develop scalable cloud environments
Develop high performance cloud environments
Develop highly-availability cloud environments
Develop secure cloud environments
Develop secure solutions for vulnerability scanning
Develop secure solutions for secrets management
Develop secure solutions for code quality checks
Develop secure solutions for dependency management
Build Vention's code pipeline
Establish Vention's code pipeline
Ensure nimble cloud platform
Ensure cost-effective cloud platform
Ensure self-served cloud platform
Create solutions to close gap between edge deployments
Create solutions to close gap between production cloud
Create data pipeline architecture for analytics
Create data pipeline architecture for machine learning training
Ensure proper performance observability
Ensure proper reliability observability
Ensure proper security observability
Work with development teams on DevSecOps best practices
Work with development teams on deployment improvement
Work with development teams on continuous improvement of
Participate in incident response
Participate in forensic activities
Participate in post mortem activities
Establish troubleshooting best practices
Help optimize AWS cost
Help optimize AWS infrastructure
Work with teams to create efficient cloud architecture
How You'll Work.
Team & Collaboration
Hands-on interactions with development leaders; Hands-on interactions with senior technology management; Work with development teams; Collaborative office space
Communication Scope
Exemplary documentation skills
Process & Methodology
CI/CD, Infrastructure as code
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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