Job Openings Senior Platform Engineer

About the job Senior Platform Engineer

Company Description

Our client is a leading US-headquartered technology company specializing in on-demand services. They are passionate about revolutionizing the way people experience mobility and on-demand services. Their company culture fosters creativity, collaboration, and continuous learning, providing an environment where you can thrive and make a significant impact.

About The Role

Embark on a groundbreaking role where you'll redefine customer experience with our client's internal development platform and tooling. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you'll empower software engineers to effortlessly build, deploy, and troubleshoot cloud applications with default security, reliability, and scalability. Your expertise will help design, build, and support our platform engineering products. You'll thrive on operational excellence and reducing toil. Beyond that, you'll serve as a platform ambassador, collaborating across engineering teams to optimize usage and identify areas for continuous improvement. Join our client's team in this dynamic position, where you will not just meet the status quo; you will set the bar higher and redefine it.

Key Responsibilities

  • Actively contribute to defining, designing, building, and operating our client's internal developer platform and tools with a focus on enabling other engineering teams to focus on feature work in their products.
  • Serve as a leader and mentor on cloud architecture, infrastructure such as code, monitoring and alerting, and other areas of operational excellence.
  • Ensure the products we build exceed our client's customer's expectations.
  • Actively participate in on-call rotation for incident response during working hours for the platform and tools.
  • Build monitoring that alerts on symptoms rather than on outages.
  • Use metrics/data to improve clients' products continuously.
  • Ensure the right SLIs are defined and measured, and continuously ensure that they meet or exceed SLOs.
  • Identify and implement improvements in the platform architecture and/or tools to reduce toil and/or improve resilience and scalability.
  • Use solid engineering practices to build long-term solutions to prevent issues from repeating.

Skills & Qualifications

  • Minimum of 5 years of relevant work experience.
  • Bachelor's Degree in Software Engineering or related field or relevant work experience.
  • 5+ years of experience with CI/CD tools like GitOps, Ansible, Jenkins, Github, Gitlab, etc. (GitHub, GitHub Actions/Workflows preferred).
  • 4+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps/DevSecOps/SRE.
  • 3+ years writing secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure as code -preferably in Terraform - and using standard SDLC methodologies for building, testing, deploying, and supporting cloud infrastructure (preferably in AWS).
  • 3+ years of experience with Kubernetes (preferably EKS) and Docker.
  • 3+ years of experience writing automation and tools using various scripting or programming languages.
  • 2+ or more years building, running, and operating cloud-native applications using Docker and one or more programming languages (NodeJS, PHP, or Go preferred).
  • Working knowledge of defining and managing SLIs and SLOs and methods for using error budgets to ensure SLOs are met.
  • Previous experience building and operating an internal developer platform and tools.
  • Experience using tools such as Flux and Helm.
  • Broad working knowledge of AWS services such as EC2, MKS, RDS, and S3.
  • Operational experience in networking, certificate management, DNS, content delivery networks, and Identity management.
  • Experience with observability tools, preferably Datadog.
  • Experience working in an agile development environment.
  • Very strong background and passion for building secure solutions.
  • Strong knowledge of the English language and clear and crisp communication - both verbal and written.
  • Solid emotional intelligence and ability to collaborate with others, especially under pressure.

Employment Structure

  • Hybrid (3 days remote & 2 days onsite) in Uttara, Dhaka | Full-time
  • Salary: BDT 170,000 - 220,000
  • Benefits: Gratuity + Medical Insurance + Performance Reward + Festival Bonus + Gym Membership + Career Development Budget + LinkedIn Learning + Lunch - Fully Subsidized + Employee Transportation: Drop off available
  • Work Week: Monday - Friday, 1:00 PM to 10:00 PM BST

Hiring Process

  1. Conversation with Talvette
  2. Recruiter Screen
  3. Hireflix Interview. 
  4. Hiring Manager Interview
  5. Technical Interview
  6. Career Journey Interview
  7. HR Interview
  8. Receive an offer
  9. Join their team full-time

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