Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer to join our DPM Operations team.  The DPM Operations team is accountable for the effective operation and support of solutions delivered by the DPM Product Development Teams. This accountability covers seven main areas:

• Supporting AWS Cloud Infrastructure.
• Improve security engineering audit and compliance tasks including alert tuning, log collection.
• installing, patching and upgrading DPM Products on our SaaS platform.
• maintaining deployment and application infrastructure.
• validating installation, configuration, release and promotion processes and procedures.
• supporting the DW Product Development Teams’ releases and promotions through production.
• monitoring the function and performance of DPM solutions; suggest and implement proactive remediation measures
• automating and documenting Platform Engineer processes
• participating in the Platform Engineer on-call rotation schedule

You will work with a fun and exciting team and be on the absolute cutting edge of technology. 

What you will be doing: 

• DPM Product installation and configuration.
• Assist Troubleshooting Platform errors.
• Technical leadership, mentoring and guiding junior team members.
• Propose/Implement improvements in our platform, and application to improve observability and automation.
• Trouble-shoot and assist with bugfixes for DPM Applications.
• Monitor DPM solutions’ function and performance

• Automate and document Platform Engineer processes.

• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation 
• Collaborate with colleagues in architecture and development groups
• Install, configure and upgrade third party products and open-source solutions
• Bi-weekly off-hour maintenance activities performed within the required maintenance window

You should have: 

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• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field 
• Minimum 5 years’ experience with development and release processes

• NATO SECRET (NS) security classification or willingness to undergo screening to attain NATO Secret security clearance
• Experience configuring, managing and upgrading servers and software
• Knowledge of database applications (Oracle) and Web Services (REST)
• Familiarity with version control, continuous integration and delivery tools (Git, Jenkins, Artifactory or related services like Azure DevOps, Salt, AWS CodeCommit/Build/Pipelines, BitBucket or GitLab)
• A desire to learn new things. Our team is on the cutting edge of technology and are more than happy to train you. 

• Other Valuable Skills: 

• Software development experience on Linux platforms in common scripting languages is highly desirable (NodeJS, Java, Python, bash,)
• Experience with AWS Cloud Services, Kibana, ADO Boards, JIRA and Remedy

• Familiarity with AWS or equivalent public cloud experience  

• Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code

Who will love this job: 

• A trusted team player – you know how to connect and communicate with your audience(s) around the world and create safe environments to voice diverse opinions, foster diversity and belonging and above all treat people with respect 

• A growth driver – you have a mindset that anticipates and adapts to changing needs and can bring partners together to contribute and work toward a shared vision 

• A game changer – you dream big and push the limits of what's possible to improve for yourself and others 

• A thinker – you take advantage of resources and implement ideas in new ways to diagnose complex problems find solutions 

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