Senior Engineer, Platform Infrastructure

How We Work

• Practice Extreme Programming and Continuous Delivery.
• Use pair programming as the default development approach.
• Work in small batches and integrate continuously.
• Automate repetitive work and test first whenever practical.
• Optimize for learning, feedback, and team outcomes.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve the platform that deploys and operates customer environments.
• Develop infrastructure as code using Ansible, Terraform, Helm, Zarf, Big Bang, Packer, and related tooling.
• Improve Kubernetes platforms and surrounding systems.
• Build deployment automation that reduces risk and removes manual work.
• Pair with engineers to design, implement, and troubleshoot platform capabilities.
• Write automated tests for infrastructure and deployment workflows.
• Improve observability, reliability, security, and recoverability.
• Write documentation that explains why systems and processes exist.
• Decompose large problems into safe, incremental improvements.
• Investigate incidents beyond immediate fixes to prevent recurrence.

Requirements

• Comfortable working across most of the following areas:
  • Kubernetes
  • Linux
  • Networking fundamentals
  • Git and trunk-based development
  • GitLab CI
  • Infrastructure as code
  • Ansible
  • Terraform
  • Helm
  • Zarf
  • Containers
  • PKI and certificate management
  • Secrets management
  • Observability
  • Infrastructure testing
  • Troubleshooting distributed systems
• Ability to learn quickly and become productive in unfamiliar systems.
• Collaborative approach to design, implementation, troubleshooting, and communicating tradeoffs.

Success Measures

• Deploy more frequently and safely.
• Recover from failures faster.
• Remove manual work and reduce operational complexity.
• Improve documentation and confidence through testing.
• Deliver changes in small, reversible increments.
• Make the platform easier to operate and evolve.

Values

• Simplicity over cleverness.
• Evidence over opinion.
• Learning over ego.
• Automation over repetition.
• Continuous improvement over perfection.
• Team outcomes over individual heroics.