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Senior Platform Engineer
Company | Vivid Seats |
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Location | Chicago, IL, USA |
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Salary | $135000 – $165000 |
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Type | Full-Time |
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Degrees | |
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Experience Level | Senior |
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Requirements
- Experience administering Kubernetes clusters (plus if you have experience with AWS EKS)
- Experience working with Kubernetes workloads and core Kubernetes resources
- Experience with configuration-as-code tools such as Terraform, Pulumi or Ansible
- Experience with CI/CD tools such as Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD, and/or GitHub Actions
- Familiarity with service mesh/Istio implementations
- Deep understanding of observability tools such as Datadog
- Expertise in a programming language such as Python, Java or Go
- General understanding of cloud networking
- Strong sense of ownership for own work and the team’s work
- A passion for automation, optimization, and productivity
- Ability to lead and mentor colleagues and peers
Responsibilities
- Own the reliability, efficiency, and speed of our delivery pipeline
- Help drive ongoing reliability, scalability, and security of our core cloud-based infrastructure platforms (primarily AWS)
- Work closely with fellow cloud engineers, software engineers, security engineers, and product owners to understand their needs and optimize their productivity
- Collaborate and show desire to support our engineering teams and bring a customer service-focused mindset to our platform engineering practice
- Utilize tools and processes that help our teams iterate more quickly without sacrificing precision or reliability
- Plan/design/lead efforts related to automation and tooling, scaling and overall site reliability to enable autonomy and ensure safety
- Drive ongoing performance enhancement across all areas of our cloud platform; networking, observability, CI/CD, access, security, cost
- Mentor and collaborate with engineers to deepen our expertise in the DevOps/SRE domain
Preferred Qualifications
No preferred qualifications provided.