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Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

CompanyVivid Seats
LocationChicago, IL, USA
Salary$135000 – $165000
TypeFull-Time
Degrees
Experience LevelSenior

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.