Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

The Senior Platform Engineer has a critical role that will have a significant impact on Cloud products.  We’re looking for someone who is excited about taking ownership of improving the existing infrastructure, designing the future of CData’s cloud applications, and working with a diverse team.  Attention to detail and eagerness to learn new technologies and systems is critical to the success of this role. 

Location(s): Chapel Hill, NC (preferred)

Day-to-Day Responsibilities:

Responsibilities include but are not limited to:

• Advance Infrastructure-as-Code and GitOps for the company.
• Increase successful product delivery velocity.
• Produce templates, modules, and other reusable components to enable other engineering teams to be successful.
• Debug problems at scale for our mission critical services and help our development teams implement lasting fixes to recurring issues.
• Build, debug, and configure CI/CD pipelines.
• Define and help implement infrastructure improvements CData cloud applications.
• Support & contribute improvements to the availability, scalability, latency, and efficiency of Cloud applications.
• Define and measure production availability, downtime, and service level outages.
• Enhance monitoring and observability of application performance and errors.
• Define and implement monitoring metrics and alerts to ensure tools and environments are meeting SLA's for uptime and performance.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related technical field (e.g., EE, physics or mathematics), or equivalent practical experience, including 5+ years professional coding software development experience.
• Deep understanding of Linux and containerization.
• Experience with Kubernetes both as a developer and from an operations perspective.
• 5+ years of experience working with public cloud infrastructure (Azure preferred)
• Experience deploying and operating applications, Java or C# preferred.
• Experience with GitOps based workflows. (FluxCD preferred)
• Infrastructure as code experience (Terraform preferred)
• Database experience (SQL Server, PostgreSQL)
• Experience with development practices and tools (ex. JIRA, Git, Azure DevOps)
• Experience with messaging systems and APIs
• Working knowledge of networking (e.g., firewall, routing, network topologies, etc)

Travel Required: No regular travel expected