The Platform Engineer designs and develops digital technology infrastructure, automating deployment processes and maintaining software quality through debugging, testing, and documentation.
Job Purpose and Impact
The Professional, Platform Engineering job maintains and partners to design and develop digital technology infrastructure to support information technology applications and services. With limited supervision, this job collaborates with cross functional teams to implement new software features to meet user needs and business goals and upgrade existing platforms to improve performance and functionality through writing clean, efficient and scalable code and troubleshooting and debugging moderately complex issues. This job also participates in code reviews to maintain high code quality and share knowledge with platform engineering team members.
Key Accountabilities
Qualifications
Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.
Very good hands-on experience with Terraform and scripted automations.
Experience with python frameworks and utilities for data processing and API integration.
Experience building DevOps pipelines in AWS managed services / Jenkins for application deployment.
Quick learner and flexible to move across technology stacks to meet varying business needs of DT&D organization.
The Professional, Platform Engineering job maintains and partners to design and develop digital technology infrastructure to support information technology applications and services. With limited supervision, this job collaborates with cross functional teams to implement new software features to meet user needs and business goals and upgrade existing platforms to improve performance and functionality through writing clean, efficient and scalable code and troubleshooting and debugging moderately complex issues. This job also participates in code reviews to maintain high code quality and share knowledge with platform engineering team members.
Key Accountabilities
- SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT: Partners to design and develop high quality software solutions by writing clean, maintainable and efficient codes.
- AUTOMATION: Applies internal software deployment platform, continuous integration or continuous delivery pipeline and twelve factor development methodology to automate the deployment process, ensuring smooth and reliable releases.
- COLLABORATION: Partners with cross functional team of product managers, designers and other engineers to gather moderately complex requirements and deliver solutions that meet business needs.
- TESTING & DEBUGGING: Writes and maintains moderately complex unit tests and integration tests, and performs debugging to maintain the quality and performance of the software, applying test driven development as needed.
- CONTINUOUS IMPROVEMENT: Identifies and suggests options for improving the software development and deployment processes, and implements the approved standards to improve efficiency and reliability.
- DOCUMENTATION: Drafts and maintains comprehensive documentation for moderately complex software applications, deployment processes and system configurations.
- TECHNICAL SUPPORT: Provides technical support and troubleshooting for moderately complex issues with deployed applications to ensure minimal downtime and fast resolution.
Qualifications
Minimum requirement of 2 years of relevant work experience. Typically reflects 3 years or more of relevant experience.
Very good hands-on experience with Terraform and scripted automations.
Experience with python frameworks and utilities for data processing and API integration.
Experience building DevOps pipelines in AWS managed services / Jenkins for application deployment.
Quick learner and flexible to move across technology stacks to meet varying business needs of DT&D organization.
Top Skills
APIs
AWS
Jenkins
Python
Terraform
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