Platform Engineer

District de Luxembourg, Luxembourg  ‐ Remote

Keywords

Architecture Kubernetes Safety Principles Amazon Web Services Automation Cloud Computing Continuous Delivery Data Centers Virtualization JavaScript (Programming Language) PHP (Programming Language) Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) Bash Shell Computer Programming Computer Networks DevOps Scalability Information Technology Infrastructure Libraries (ITIL) Infrastructure Management Python (Programming Language) Project Management Product Family Engineering Programming Concepts Reverse Engineering Service Design Software Engineering Stakeholder Engagement Stakeholder Management User Assistance Scripting

Description

Key Responsibilities:
• Automating Processes: Focus on automating tasks that need to be repeated, ensuring
efficiency and reducing manual intervention.
• Support Developers: Provide support for Developers in in their day-to-day work, related
to the services offered.
• Migrating to Containers: Oversee the migration of products to container technologies
such as Kubernetes, including the use of provisioning platforms like vRealize
Automation.
• Legacy Architecture Review: Reverse engineer the legacy architecture to understand
key flows and identify weaknesses in terms of security, performance, reliability,
simplicity, and operational agility.
• Designing Solutions: Collaborate with technical and solution architects as well with
operational teams to redesign and address the identified weaknesses, ensuring the new
systems are robust, secure, and performant.
• Continuous Delivery Pipeline: Participate in the transformation of the Data Center to
achieve a fully automated Continuous Delivery pipeline, including build, deployment,
monitoring, and resilience processes.
• Security and Reliability: Ensure that there are no unresolved legacy issues related to
security, reliability, performance, or operational agility within the data center
environment.
• Collaboration and Stakeholder Engagement: Address customers and express difficult
technical details effectively to non-technical audience, guide junior engineers in cloud
best practices.
• Cloud and Infrastructure Management: Work with cloud providers (AWS, OVH) and
leverage cloud technologies, Kubernetes architecture, and virtualization frameworks to
ensure scalability and operational effectiveness.
• Service Operations and Documentation: Maintain comprehensive documentation for all
operational and support processes and automate repetitive tasks where possible. Be
prepared to handle 24/7 on-call support in a shift-based mode.
• Stay Current with an analytic mindset: Continuously stay up to date with new
technologies, frameworks, and best practices relevant to cloud infrastructure and DevOps
methodologies.
• Compliance and Best Practices: Follow project management guidelines, ensuring
adherence to ITIL functions and processes for service design, operations, and support.

Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s degree in computer science or related field
• Understanding of programming concepts.
• Knowledge of the programming/scripting languages (Python, Javascript, PHP, Bash)
• Advanced knowledge of API concepts.
• Experience in Kubernetes architecture and Software engineering.
• Strong experience with container provisioning platform such as Kubernetes
• Experience in AWS, and OVH cloud providers.
• Knowledge of computer networking and virtualization
• Ability to build collaborative working relationships with various internal and external
stakeholders
• Knowledge of Argo CD
Start date
ASAP
Workload
100% (5 days per week)
Duration
6 months
(extension possible)
From
IBS-C
Published at
11.11.2024
Contact person:
Marco Fernando
Project ID:
2815516
Industry
IT
Contract type
Freelance
Workplace
100 % remote
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