Senior Platform Engineer, Core Platform team (100% remote-friendly within Spain)
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Job description
The Internal Platform is a pivotal foundation that accelerates product development by providing a reliable, scalable, and self-service ecosystem. It supports the entire software lifecycle and is meticulously tailored to meet the organization's technological needs and strategic direction.
The platform enables development teams to operate autonomously in 80% of cases, reducing dependency on the Internal Platform area, and ensuring that compliance, security, and business continuity are integrated across the entire platform - defending general reliability of services, and data integrity.
Overall, a platform engineering team plays a critical role in ensuring a company's technology infrastructure is reliable and scalable.
The Internal Platform area consists of 34 people including 27 individual contributors 2 Staff Engineers, 4 Engineering Managers and Head of Internal Platform. The team is organized in a way to efficiently address Stakeholders needs.
The Core Platform Engineers team is a part of the Internal Platform area and nowadays consists of 6 Platform Engineers. The team is accountable for building and maintaining the company core infrastructure. Ensuring high availability, scalability, security and cost efficiency.
What are the challenges in the team?
- The complexity of the Docplanner organization: Docplanner is a complex organization with multiple teams working on various products and services. One of the main challenges for the platform engineering teams is to understand and integrate the diverse technology stacks used by different teams.
- Scalability and reliability of systems: As Docplanner grows and expands, the demand for the technology infrastructure also increases. The platform engineering team must ensure that the systems are designed to handle high traffic, are scalable, and secure
Who will you work closely with?
You will work closely with Product Teams to understand their technical requirements and provide them with the necessary tools, services, and infrastructure to support their development efforts. Your insights and expertise will contribute to enhancing the efficiency and effectiveness of their workflows.
You will work closely with Practice Management Systems being part of Docplanner Group to introduce the Shared Platform Concept. The goal of the team is to standardize the technology, methodologies, processes and ways of working across with the Internal Platform.
How would you be impacting our mission?
- Development, monitoring, and maintenance of Kubernetes clusters on several continents.
- Design, implement and manage Continuous Delivery using a GitOps approach.
- Ensure Disaster Recovery procedures are current, tested and well-documented.
- Guarantee highly available service deployments through best practices and automation.
- Troubleshoot critical issues and continuously optimize system performance.
- Provide day-to-day support to team members and contribute to knowledge sharing.
Requirements
- Strong experience with Kubernetes (must-have).
- Knowledge of Terraform, Crossplane (nice to have) and Helm charts.
- Experience with CI/CD tools like GH Actions, Argo CD and Argo Rollouts.
- Familiarity with tools like Karpenter, KEDA, Velero and Cilium.
- Experience building secure, scalable, and high-availability environments on AWS.
- Understanding of Disaster Recovery Planning and strategies for cloud infrastructure.
- Comfortable scripting or developing tools in Bash or Go.
- You can communicate in English (both spoken and written - min. B2 level).
- Growth mindset: nobody ticks all those boxes above, but willingness to learn is strongly valued here.
Benefits & conditions
Let's talk money
- A salary adequate to your experience and skills. The range is broad so that we can accommodate our roles for all levels of experience, but we will show you the career ladder to explain where we see your skills and impact within the company". Your salary will be, now and always, 100% transparent to you;
- Flexible remuneration and benefits system via Flexoh (https://flexoh.com/), which includes: restaurant card, transportation card, kindergarten, and training tax savings;
- Share options plan (https://medium.com/docplanner-tech/stock-option-plan-is-not-optional-fefedf89ddee) after 6 months of working with us.
True flexibility and work-life balance
- Remote or hybrid work model with our hub in Barcelona;
- Flexible working hours (fully flexible, as in most cases you only have to be on a couple of meetings weekly);
- Summer intensive schedule during July and August (work 7 hours, finish earlier);
- 23 paid holidays, with exchangeable local bank holidays;
- Additional paid holiday on your birthday or work anniversary (you choose what you want to celebrate).