Director of Platform Engineering (DevOps)
We have a fantastic Director of Platform Engineering role that is looking for someone that can lead and drive high visibility projects. In this role, we are looking for a Lead level Platform Engineer with production grade mastery of AWS and hands on leadership.
This position is for a true builder and hands on leader looking to grow a DevOps Practice. The ideal candidate will have significant production experience with architecting, deploying and ensuring the reliability of internal and customer facing microservices using GitLab, Kubernetes and Service Mesh and will have a proven track record of leading successful SRE or Platform teams.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Provide technical leadership and guidance to both your team members and your peers
- Build and lead a growing team of high-performing DevOps engineers by providing strong leadership
- Help define and enforce DevOps standards, procedures, and guidelines to improve the overall development process
- Deploy and support high-performance, highly-available infrastructure on AWS
- Cultivate a modern DevOps culture and mindset throughout your teams and establish performance metrics and processes to improve velocity and deliverability
- Own the day-to-day health, uptime, monitoring, and reliability of our cloud infrastructure
- Work closely with engineering and project management to develop tools and solutions
Required Qualifications:
- 3+ years experience in a Lead Platform Engineer or Senior DevOps role
- 3+ years of production AWS experience, including but not limited to EC2, RDS, ElastiCache, S3, Auto Scale, ELB
- Capability to program in at least one language (other than Bash), ideally Python, PHP or Java
- Solid knowledge of the Linux architecture is essential in this role
- Experience with container stacks and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes, Mesos, ECS, etc)
- Experience with Configuration Management tools such as Puppet, Chef, Salt, or Ansible
- Experience with Infrastructure as a Code frameworks such as Terraform
- Experience with Microservices
- Experience with CI/CD tools and production code deployments