Software Engineer II

Overview

• The Cloud Platforms team is responsible for the day to day maintenance and operation of various cloud platforms and their supporting services.
• Cloud Platform Engineers are engaged in the project lifecycle as infrastructure is designed and ultimately inherit responsibility of the new environment.
• The primary responsibility of the team is to react to incidents in Cloud, PaaS, Cloud Foundry, Kubernetes and pipeline infrastructure platforms.
• Secondary objectives of the team are to improve the resiliency of systems through active contribution back to design as well as automating repetitive tasks.
• Requires a moderate understanding of various platforms used for delivery of traditional and cloud services.
• Requires the ability to write automation code to remediate repeat issues.
• Requires a working understanding of Continuous Delivery principles, software development methodologies and infrastructure automation.
• This is a 'hands on' role that deals with reacting to and proactively avoiding issues with infrastructure platforms used for delivery of cloud services.
• Do you enjoy creating code-based solutions to replace manual processes
• Are you the type of person that will drive the solution and team in the best direction instead of the easiest

Role

• Interact with and create effective monitoring systems that reduce the need for human intervention in daily web operations
• Respond to incidents in various platforms
• Create high quality and rugged code solutions to automate detection and recovery of common operational problems
• Identify and create automation that can be used by initial responders for easily resolvable issues

All About You

• Expert understanding of Operational duties, Compensated On-call shifts.
• Working knowledge of target platforms (Cloud Foundry, Concourse, Kubernetes, Helm, Kustomize, KubeCTL, RKE, KubeADM)
• Experience with Python and Bash Scripting.
• Familiarity with F5 load balancers, API technology and XML Gateways preferred
• Highly attuned to security needs and best practices
• Ability to write quality automation code in more than one language
• Familiarity with multiple cloud vendors and past experience a plus