Description
The Staff Platform Engineer focuses on delivering platforms and relentlessly improving developer experience. They automate processes and develop self-service capabilities around infrastructure and application delivery. They serve as an escalation point for junior engineers.
Uses DevOps practices and thinking to guide automation efforts across infrastructure provisioning and application delivery and deployment activities.
Works to increase deployment frequency, decrease failure change rate, decrease the mean time to recover (MTTR), and decrease lead time.
Writes code to provision infrastructure and deploy applications.
Focuses on customer service and using empathy to improve developer experience.
Builds trust with teams participating in conversations about new practices. Relentlessly works to eliminate pain points and remove process bottlenecks.
Takes work break downs from other team members asking questions to clarify requirements and acceptance criteria.
Comfortable with some degree of ambiguity and change.
Collaboratively uses tools that improve developer productivity--especially focusing on tools that are part of CI/CD processes that improve the speed and safety of deployment pipelines through the software development lifecycle.
Uses SLOs (service level objectives) to define SLIs (service level indicators) to observe application and infrastructure health, and for troubleshooting infrastructure and applications.
Commitment to continuous learning and improvement.
All other duties as assigned.
Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in technology, business, or a related field from an accredited program is required and 4 years (5 years preferred) in infrastructure and network systems design, deployment and management, system engineering, or related experience required.
Applicable years of experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.
Experience building cloud infrastructure in AWS, GCP, or Azure.
Need experience with IaC (Infrastructure as Code) tools like Terraform or Pulumi for provisioning resources is strongly preferred.
Experience scripting tasks using Bash, Python, PowerShell, Go, or similar languages.
Familiarity with Git and workflows for reviewing and releasing code.
Experience with TCP/IP networking, DNS, and Certificate management
Familiarity with CI/CD processes and tools for building and deploying application code.
Strong computer skills (e.g., Microsoft Office Suite).
Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
Ability to partner on work and resolve issues in a team environment.
Demonstrated critical thinking skills and ability to work methodically and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
Strong attention to detail, facilitation, team building and collaboration.
Experience with Python and React software development.
Experience with security systems and policies and experience in vulnerability management and remediation.
Experience with cloud technologies, automation scripts and infrastructure management.
This job posting will remain open a minimum of 72 hours and on an ongoing basis until filled.
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Job Information Technology
Primary Location US-MO-Kansas City
Schedule: Full-time
Travel: Yes, 5 % of the Time
Req ID: 261565
Job Hire Type Experienced #LI-MJ #COR N/A