Senior Software Engineer II -SSE II

Job Title : Senior Software Engineer II (8+ Years Experience)

About the Role

As the senior engineer with the platform engineering team, you will spearhead the creation of robust cloud platforms while enhancing application observability to ensure seamless monitoring and diagnostics. Embracing an automation-first approach, you will eliminate manual deployments, empowering developers to be self-sufficient and agile. Your leadership will be instrumental in driving innovation, efficiency, and scalability across the organization.

Key Responsibilities

Ensure the platform is running 24 / 7 and respond to incidents as needed.

Design and build all aspects of an enterprise platform, e.g. tooling, CI / CD, Security, Observability.

Lead the technical decision-making on configuration management, version control, build / deployment management and automation.

Automate several tasks and Increase Team and Operational efficiency.

Support CI / CD and associated tools in pipelines for development and production environments.

Creation, execution and maintenance of automation scripts to assist in CI / CD pipelines.

Share engineering knowledge through presentations, blogs, and videos with the broader engineering community.

Collaborate with product owners and teams to create relevant engineering road maps to increase adoption.

Research new technology and alternative solutions to find the best solutions to problems

Work with observability tools like Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Grafana, Splunk, ELK or similar. to build enterprise monitoring solutions

Key Requirements

Minimum 8 years of experience in devOps and SRE

Has 3+ years of experience in software development using languages like .NET, Java or similar

Highly proficient across foundational cloud services (IAM, Networking, IaC, Step Function, Storage, Serverless / Lambda)

Hands-on experience with Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Working experience in programming languages, such as Golang, Python, Typescript, Rust or Java

Highly proficient with code repositories and CI / CD tools like GitHub, GitHub Actions, GitLab, Artifactory

Confident working with Infrastructure as Code tools like CloudFormation, CDK, Terraform, Ansible

Good understanding of software development and lifecycle management.

Good experience with monitoring, alerting and dashboarding tools (Nagios, DataDog, SumoLogic, Splunk, ELK, or similar)

Good understanding of Agile methodology

Nice To Have

AWS Certifications or similar

Experience with GitOps workflows and progressive delivery strategies.

Experience with System & IT operation – Windows and Linux OS administration.