Senior Platform Operations Engineer

Job Description

Responsibilities

Based out of our Belfast offices or working remotely within the UK or Ireland, the Senior Platform Operations Engineer will be a key member of our Platform Operations Team, helping to build and support the core infrastructure of the SportsEngine Platform services and products through activities and key responsibilities that include:
• Contributing to efforts that ensure the continuous and smooth running of the SportsEngine platform while serving a large volume of traffic.
• Leveraging Amazon Web Services to build highly available services for the SportsEngine infrastructure platform built on top of the EKS, RDS and EC2.
• Developing Infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform.
• Helping to foster a culture of cooperation, coordination, and continuous learning within the Platform Operations Team and with other Product Development teams throughout SportsEngine.
• Working closely with the SportsEngine Cyber Security Team to maintain and improve the security of the SportsEngine Platform.
• Contributing to and using our GitHub Pull Request-centered development pipeline as we continuously deliver value to our customers.
• Using tools such as NewRelic, Splunk and Datadog to monitor the health of the SportsEngine platform.
• Being an advocate for quality code and engineering practices that enable Continuous Delivery.
• Participation in a sustainable on-call schedule.

Qualifications
• 5 or more years of experience in the field of Software Engineering which operating web applications in a Site Reliability Engineering, Web Operations, or Cloud Engineering capacity.
• A strong foundation in modern infrastructure practices and the ability to deploy and operate maintainable, scalable secure infrastructure.
• Ability to write quality, modular, maintainable, secure, and testable infrastructure automation.
• A team-oriented attitude and seemingly endless intellectual curiosity.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

Desired skills & experience
• AWS Experience
Experience in the following areas of AWS:
 - EC2
 - VPC – Subnets, Security Groups, NAT Gateways, Transit Gateways, ELB/ALB/NLB etc.
 - IAM
 - S3
 - Managed data tiers - RDS/Elasticache etc.
• Experience in production with:
 - EKS
 - OpsWorks
 - Lambda
 - DynamoDB
• Kubernetes
 - Production experience of running services in Kubernetes
 - Ability to take a VM based application and migrate to Kubernetes
• CI/CD
 - Experience with CI/CD pipelines, assisting developers in delivering changes on a daily cadence
 - Experience with TravisCI, Jenkins, Gitlab CI, Github Actions or similar technologies
• Automation
 - Ability to script automation in one of either Ruby, Python, Go etc
• Infrastructure as Code
 - Terraform
 Ability to author Terraform at a proficient level
 Ability to break out reusable, opinionated and standardized actions into Terraform modules
 - Chef/Ansible

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