Senior Platforms Engineer

The Senior Platform Operations Engineer will be a key member of our International DevOps Team helping to build and support the core infrastructure of our International GolfNow Platform, services and products through activities and key responsibilities that include:

• Contributing to efforts that ensure the continuous and smooth running of the International GolfNow platforms whilst serving a large volume of traffic.
• Leveraging Amazon Web Services to build highly available and secure services.
• Developing Infrastructure as code using tools like Terraform.
• Working closely with the NBC SportsNext Cyber Security Team to maintain and improve the security of the platform.
• Contributing to and using our GitHub Pull Request based development pipeline as we continuously deliver value to our customers.
• Using tools such as Datadog and Splunk to monitor the health of the platform.
• Being an advocate for quality code and engineering practices that enable Continuous Delivery.
• Participation in a sustainable on-call schedule.

Requirements

Skills & Experience:

• 5+ years of experience in the field of Software Engineering operating web applications in a Site Reliability Engineering, Platform Engineering, Web Operations, or Cloud Engineering capacity.
• Production experience with AWS services including EC2, ECS, EKS, RDS, IAM, VPC etc.
• A strong foundation in modern infrastructure practices and the ability to deploy and operate maintainable, scalable and secure infrastructure.
• Ability to develop quality, documented, modular, maintainable, secure, and testable infrastructure automation.
• A team-oriented attitude and seemingly endless intellectual curiosity.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.

AWS Experience

• Experience in the following areas of AWS:
  • EC2/ECS/EKS.
  • VPC – Subnets, Security Groups, NAT Gateways, Transit Gateways, ELB/ALB/NLB etc.
  • IAM, S3, Managed data tiers - RDS/Elasticache etc.
• Nice to have:
  • Experience in production with AWS Serverless technologies such as Lambda/SQS/SNS/DynamoDB etc.

Kubernetes

• Production experience of running services in Kubernetes.
• Ability to take a VM based application and migrate to Kubernetes.

CI/CD

• Experience with CI/CD pipelines, assisting developers in delivering changes on a daily cadence.
• Experience with TravisCI, Jenkins, Gitlab CI, GitHub Actions or similar technologies.

Automation

• Ability to script automation in one of either Bash, Ruby, Python, Go etc.

Infrastructure as Code

• Terraform
  • Ability to author Terraform at a proficient level.
  • Ability to break out reusable, opinionated and standardized actions into Terraform modules.

Web Services / Runtimes

• Production experience managing high transacting web properties.
• Configuring web servers such as Apache/Nginx etc.
• Experience securing services exposed to the public internet.
• Experience managing/building/deploying Java and PHP based applications is beneficial to this role.