Intermediate Platform Engineer

Minimum requirements: Bachelor's degree or relevant work experience. At least 3 to 5 years in active Development roles. Experience with most of the technology used, but specifically Terraform and Docker. Have strong operational experience with AWS, Linux and MySQL. Professional, Self-motivated attitude. Proficient in written and oral English communication. Eager to learn, open to constructive criticism and willing to be a team player in delivering the best solutions possible. Be comfortable working in an agile and fast-paced environment. Seasoned communicator, proficient in technical and business/ functional aspects of the software development process. Team player and willing to go beyond the call of duty when the need arises. Responsibilities: Your mission will be to build and maintain vertical independent infrastructure, development pipelines and software services and set group-wide platform engineering standards. Assist in Research, P.O.C and implementation of new technologies or services to be adopted by the entire Group. Configuration and management of various servers/instances via Docker, Terraform and Ansible. Everything runs on docker, but we are still in the process of moving legacy over to docker. Write scripts and automation using Bash/Python/Groovy. Reviewing and approving the work of your peers as part of the software development process. Maintaining our Cloud Infrastructure primarily on AWS. Maintaining the reliability of our CI/CD. Build independent web-based tools and microservices to help dev workflows. Planning and Implementation of backup scenarios, log-rotations and overall scaling concepts for large datasets. Keep abreast with industry trends, new technologies and best practices in the DevOps and development space. Proactively improve products, systems and processes. Deliver software and projects according to agreed timelines. Tenacity and the ability to solve complex software bugs. Originally posted on Himalayas