Scope of Position:

As a Platform Engineer within Digital Delivery, you will create, deploy, and own technologies that enable and empower your peer scientists, engineers, and developers to manufacture things that matter. Platform Engineers are encouraged to experiment with the latest technologies, to constantly learn and expand their skills, and to use those skills in ever-changing ways.

Responsibilities:

• Produce scalable, highly available, repeatable cloud solutions
• Develop, maintain, and evolve cloud configuration automation
• Simplify and reinvent existing systems, processes, and tools to make things better for our users, developers, and scientists
• Provide insight into best practices regarding cloud architecture, automation, observability, orchestration, operability, resilience, and security
• Create, modify, and adapt cloud solutions to keep the organization aligned between the business requirements and technology capabilities
• Facilitate meetings with business partners and technologies teams to build consensus and drive solution decisions without compromising delivery and/or service
• Provide standards and platforms for future application development and help our peer engineers, developers, and scientists make the best use of technology
• Align existing application portfolio to cloud standards and services
• Be a highly motivated and active contributor across multiple work streams and manage deliveries accordingly across multiple projects
• Evaluate new technologies, services, and products
• Participate actively in team discussions, daily standups, periodic demos and retrospectives
• Participate in incident response efforts as needed
• Detect and highlight new or unmitigated risks, analyze problems, define solutions, and articulate those in a clear discernible manner
• Connect with all levels of the organization, senior leadership to professional staff
• Keep abreast of business, operational, and technology trends that may affect the portfolio and strategy.

Education and Experience:

• BS degree in computer science or engineering. 5+ years of support and management of highly scalable, highly available infrastructure, solutions and services
• 3+ years of experience with Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) services and solutions.
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or equivalent experience

Required Skills (List required technical skills, soft skills, applications, etc.)

• Understanding of Agile Methodologies and practices such as Scrum and Kanban
• Deep knowledge of application architecture and development including application servers, middleware, systems management, monitoring, configuration management, capacity planning and performance tuning, highly availability architectures
• Demonstrable experience in using development languages such as Python, Perl, Java, Go, Ruby, Shell or other languages, to build reusable tools
• Passion for DevOps culture and methods

Travel Requirement (two week-long team gatherings per year)