Platform Engineer

The Platform Engineering team at Xpand IT is responsible for designing and configuring architectural and infrastructural platforms (e.g. cloud adoption and improvement, Kubernetes), handling the entire lifecycle of the adoption and integration of these platforms by our clients.

What are the main responsibilities?

As a Platform Engineer, you will play a key role in various phases of platform adoption and integration in on-prem or Cloud contexts (Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services) and participate in the analysis, definition, sizing, setup, upgrade, securing, and tuning of those platforms. For these systems, a special focus on performance and security is essential, as well as the implementation of best practices in service development to serve as a foundation for monitoring tools.

You will work closely with development teams in the design, development, and deployment of application solutions, processing, and large-scale data storage.

Daily, you will be responsible for:

- Designing, installing, configuring, upgrading, securing, and tuning large-scale platforms in critical, ephemeral, and/or auto-scaling environments, both on-prem and in Cloud providers;

- Implementing security rules and policies;

- Recommending and periodically updating various platforms (hot fixes, patches, etc.);

- Configuring best practices for infrastructure monitoring;

- Analyzing hardware and software requirements for each project to be implemented;

- Designing and developing new processes to ensure the stability and maintenance of performance in environments;

- Developing integration or automation processes for Cloud deployments;

- Being able to leverage containerized environments in Kubernetes;

- Participating and assisting in resolving performance, scalability, and security issues.

Stacks: Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services

What skills do you need to have?

- Bachelor’s and/or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Computer Engineering;

- Good knowledge of operating systems and shell scripting;

- Knowledge of objectives and terminology of high availability distributed systems is valued;

- Enjoyment of teamwork and solving complex problems;

- Good communication skills (written and spoken);

- Fluent English (written and spoken).

Extra points for:

- Practical experience in configuring large-scale data platforms;

- Practical experience with Cloud Providers;

- Practical experience with automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or CloudFormation;

- Experience in Kubernetes and the various existing flavors such as Openshift, Rancher, AKS, or EKS.

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