What are the responsibilities and job description for the Platform Engineer/Observability Engineer position at SSI People?
Job Details
- Bachelor s degree preferred for this role - something in Computer Science field or Computer Engineering
- Kubernetes certification preferred, not required
- 5 years experience minimum in a software development role
- Candidates with a passion for the brand/sports will do well in this role
- The systems design portion of the interview will be very important; candidates should have relevant experience building distributed systems in the past
- As a Platform Engineer for Open-source Observability Platform, one of the products in Observability Engineering, you'll be responsible for implementing end-to-end technical solutions in support of the Platform Strategy. You'll work closely with other Platform Engineers to deliver technical design and solutions, contributing to the future success of the business through innovations in technology.
Scope and Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the design and development of technical solutions for the Kubernetes-based Foundational Observability Platform (NOOP).
- Hands-on development of Kubernetes controllers, Crossplane compositions, and GitOps deployment of CNCF components.
- Provide technical assistance to less experienced engineers.
- Adopt, implement, and promote best-in-class design and architecture principles of security, observability, availability, and resiliency.
- Partner with product to deliver stories which meet acceptance criteria.
- Contribute to ways of working, development standards, and training.
- Provide rotational support to the Digital Athletes who use our platform.
Minimum qualifications:
- 5 years of professional software development experience.
- 2 years operating Kubernetes-based solutions in production.
- Experience developing large-scale distributed systems on public cloud computing platforms.
- Experience working with Observability vendor products (such as, but not limited to, Splunk/Grafana/Datadog/NewRelic/Dynatrace.
- Strong understanding of networking protocols and layers.
Preferred qualifications:
- Experience of 2 years working with Grafana.
- Experience defining platform SLAs and adhering to those through platform governance standards.
- Experience developing Kubernetes controllers in Golang.
- Experience developing Crossplane compositions or leveraging traditional IAC solutions.
- Experience leveraging ArgoCD or similar tools to implement GitOps.
- Ability to create abstracted solutions that do not rely on any on Cloud Service Provider.
- Able to navigate governance and compliance requirements of Global Platforms.
- Passionate about delighting enterprise customers, and an understanding of enterprise workloads.
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