Senior Platform Engineer - Solutions

• Build platform tooling and automation primarily in Python to help support new client infrastructure builds
• Collaborate with clients and product teams to support client use cases and integrations
• Provide production support for highly-available, internet-facing systems.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines (we use CircleCI), and deployment tooling
• Implement and maintain GitOps workflows using ArgoCD
• Manage and operate Kubernetes-based environments - we use EKS.
• Collaborate with a global, remote-first team using asynchronous communication.
• Contribute to code reviews, troubleshooting, and technology evaluations.

Do you have experience in Terraform?, * Proficient using AWS; we use a lot of different AWS services and not just the standard few

• Docker and Kubernetes; we use Amazon EKS in production
• Terraform, or a similar infrastructure-as-code tool
• Software development experience in Python and Django (or equiv. Web framework)
• Experience with using Linux
• Previous experience working in small, highly-autonomous teams
• Good communication, with a focus on doing this asynchronously across multiple timezones and countries, * Experience with event driven systems (e.g. AWS EventBridge)
• Experience working on SaaS platforms, including engaging product teams to ensure up-skilling and knowledge sharing across teams
• Proactive, problem-solving orientation with an interest in continual improvement
• Prior experience in globally distributed, follow-the-sun teams.

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