The Role: Platform Engineer
Location: Charlotte, NC/Piscataway, NJ/Lake Mary, FL
Overview:
We’re looking for a Senior Platform Engineer (DevSecOps) to come help us automate everything, enable our developer teammates, and create and support world-class platforms, and implement modern practical security.
This job requires expertise in Kubernetes, IaC, and Security as relates to both.
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be an integral member of the Platform Engineering team, helping the organization transform into a truly modern cloud-native mode of operation. The goal of the Platform Engineering (PE) team is to reduce friction in the delivery process and improve developer experience. Technical prowess, pragmatic strategic understanding, and ability to make compromises working with the stakeholders are the 3 pillars of this job.
The Senior Platform Engineer will work closely with the Sr Manager of Platform Engineering, Platform Tech Lead, and Platform Architect to ensure sound technical direction. The Senior Platform Engineer will also work with the Technical Product Owner on their Agile Platform Engineering team to facilitate delivering the most critical platform features needed for the Product Development Teams.
The Senior Platform Engineer will be expected to provide guidance on DevOps practices and tools and Azure cloud resources.
Job Responsibilities:
- Apply a proactive approach toward tasks and communication
- Embrace and evangelize automation, infrastructure as code, policy as code, and developer enablement
- Lead technical implementations leveraging the team architect
- Be a foreperson on the team and a strong presence in collaboration with other teams and leadership.
- Drive forensic troubleshooting and analysis of automation and platform consistency issues
- Proactively ensure the highest levels of system, resource, and infrastructure availability and performance optimization
- Evangelize cloud-native practices and methodologies to delivery teams
- Provide subject matter expertise for all aspects of our technology stack
- Infrastructure Automation Via Terraform
- Azure DevOps Pipelines
- Kubernetes / AKS / EKS
- CI/CD Patterns
- Participation in an on-call rotation
Experience, Qualifications and Skills:
- 10+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Systems Engineering, Cloud-Native Engineering, DevOps Engineering or Advocacy role
- Expertise with containers and Kubernetes
- Expertise with container security and Kubernetes security
- Experience with opensource security tools
- Experience remediating security vulnerabilities and responding to CVE reported issues
- Experience debugging false positive security reporting
- Experience working on an Agile team using Agile development methodologies
- Experience staying on the forefront of security and advocating best practices to the team and their customers.
- Strong Scripting Experience
- Experience in writing security tests and validations
- Expertise in writing Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code techniques
- Expertise in managing multiple code bases in Git, including trunk-based and environment-based branching
- Expertise in creating Continuous Integration builds and deployment automation, for example, CI/CD Pipelines
- Expertise in building and supporting Cloud Native applications in a major public cloud
- Expertise in implementing observability, application monitoring, and log aggregation solutions
- Expertise working with cross-functional teams to provide Next-Gen Cloud Native solutions
Preferred Experience, Qualifications and Skills:
- Experience with WIZ
- Experience with AKS, EKS
- Expertise with dotnet, PowerShell, and PowerShell Desired State Configuration
- Bachelor’s degree in a computing-related field
- Microsoft Azure or AWS Certifications
MUST HAVE:
- Application Security
- ArgoCD
- Azure Devops CICD
- Azure Security
- Azure Security Controls and Best Practice
- Bash Scripting
- Building IaC using Terraform
- Container Security
- Cyber Incident Response
- cyber security incident management
- Docker, Kubernetes & Azure Cloud Services
- Git Repo Expertise
- Governance Framework
- Kubernetes Security
- Network Security
- Security Integration into CI/CD
NICE TO HAVE
- AWS Security Controls and Best Practice
- Azure
- Cloud Certifications
- Kubernetes Certifications
- Security Certifications
- Terraform Certifications
We can offer you:
- A highly competitive compensation and benefits package
- A multinational organization with 55 offices in 20 countries and the possibility to work abroad.
- Laptop and a mobile phone
- 10 days of paid annual leave (plus sick leave and national holidays)
- Maternity & Paternity leave plans
- A comprehensive insurance plan including medical, dental, vision, life insurance, and long-/short-term disability (plans vary by region)
- Retirement savings plans
- A higher education certification policy
- Commuter benefits (varies by region)
- Extensive training opportunities, focused on skills, substantive knowledge, and personal development.
- On-demand Udemy for Business for all Synechron employees with free access to more than 5000 curated courses
- Coaching opportunities with experienced colleagues from our Financial Innovation Labs (FinLabs) and Center of Excellences (CoE) groups
- Cutting edge projects at the world’s leading tier-one banks, financial institutions and insurance firms.
- A flat and approachable organization
- A truly diverse, fun-loving, and global work culture
SYNECHRON’S DIVERSITY & INCLUSION STATEMENT
Diversity & Inclusion are fundamental to our culture, and Synechron is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and is an affirmative action employer. Our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) initiative ‘Same Difference’ is committed to fostering an inclusive culture – promoting equality, diversity and an environment that is respectful to all. We strongly believe that a diverse workforce helps build stronger, successful businesses as a global company. We encourage applicants from across diverse backgrounds, race, ethnicities, religion, age, marital status, gender, sexual orientations, or disabilities to apply. We empower our global workforce by offering flexible workplace arrangements, mentoring, internal mobility, learning and development programs, and more.
All employment decisions at Synechron are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to the applicant’s gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, disabled or veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.
