Senior Platform Engineering Architect

Job Description

JOB SUMMARY: Responsible for collaborating with developers to understand new and upcoming initiatives. Provide feedback on operational, development and architectural changes necessary to achieve such. Implement best practices on infrastructure-as-code, branch management, and CI/CD. Create scalable and composable cloud architectures using cutting-edge tools and platforms.

DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Provide technical leadership for development teams to fully utilize all tooling in the SDLC.
• Ensure architecture, operational practices, and workflow documentation established by leadership are followed.
• Provide appropriate support on installing, configuring, and maintaining Linux containerized servers and services with cloud providers.
• Oversee professional maintenance and administration of the source code control environment.
• Foster high quality code through implementation of leadership-established static code analyzer tools, quality-gated CI/CD pipelines, and other testing platforms.
• Ensure design and implementation of platform-provided tools promotes safer, faster, and more reliable deployments of applications.
• Provide tooling to deploy web applications in production environments with minimal disruption.
• Partner with Enterprise Applications team in the review of new technology requests and evaluate changes required to Platform tooling to support.
• Evaluate and advise on new technologies that help set deliverability and code standards higher.
• Conduct automated load testing as needed for high frequency deployment schedule.
• Ensure security and code-complexity best-practices are followed throughout entire SDLC.
• Research and present infrastructure and software tools used in the support and maintenance of enterprise clients.
• Perform additional job-related duties as needed.

QUALIFICATIONS

DEGREE TYPE: Bachelor's Degree

FIELD(S) OF STUDY: Computer Science

EXPERIENCE:

• Minimum 7 years of IT support and planning experience or
• Experience with Argo, Jenkins, Github Actions, .NET, PHP, Java, Scala, and other Web programming languages desired.
• Experience with production server support.
• Experience with quality assurance activities and with agile development practices preferred.

COMPETENCIES/SKILLS:

• Effective training and support of user communities with web technologies and tools.
• Ability to present confidently among peers and leadership.
• Depth and breadth of provisioning and CI/CD tools such as Ansible, Puppet, Chef, Helm, Terraform, and Jenkins.
• Solid understanding of network routing, CDN operation and functionality.
• Expertise using AWS to create elastic workflows that respond to ebbs and surges of production activity.
• Solid understanding and demonstrated application of network and high-availability architecture.
• Expert in use of Jenkins pipelines that utilize Github, Jira, and static code analyzers
• Deep knowledge and understanding of network systems and IT infrastructure for support, maintenance, and planning purposes.
• Thorough understanding of web architecture and problem solving.
• Thorough understanding of Windows and Linux based computers systems.
• Knowledge of server installation, configuration, and support.