Specialist Platform Engineer

About the job Specialist Platform Engineer

Contract position

• Demonstrable experience in server hardware, VMware, Linux Server, and Windows Server in a large enterprise function.
• VMware certification is required (must be current).
• AWS certification is advantageous.
• Core VMware competencies:
• vSphere (ESX, vCenter)
• Aria Automation 8 (vRA) Troubleshooting, integration, orchestration - critical
• Aria Automation Config (Salt) Troubleshooting and integration - critical
• Working knowledge of Pure storage, Arista and/or Cisco Data Centre Networking, Dell Open Manage (not critical, but definitely useful)

• Responsibilities:
• Positively contribute to, define and implement the development/engineering lifecycle (end to end) and lead lifecycle improvements over successive releases
• Produce simple, extensible, and maintainable features with very few defects.
• Continually works to find and fix defects
• Leverage platform (service design and code) and engineering technical expertise to proactively identify risks and prevent defects
• Identify patterns that reveal errors and unanticipated problems, and influence telemetry analytics design decisions
• Identify and Apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code
• Ensure consistent, usable, forward-looking, maintainable test infrastructure
• Apply object orientated design in development and draw from a large base of design patterns
• Uphold our technical principles of: self-service, scalability, re-usability, resilience & stability in all development practices and deliver feature sets that sustainably deliver on these principles
• Apply knowledge and expertise in User / Customer experience to deliver a stable user experience in all design and development that is simple, elegant, and useful
• Proactively identify development practices that work well & leverage and improve these for future solution design and deployment
• Document feature set and constituent design information to produce solution design blueprints and validation collateral
• Based on engineering & platform expertise and a sound knowledge of the business & customer requirements consistently provide key ideas for the enhancement & optimization of the platform
• Develop & document complete designs and implement testing processes that identify and eradicate platform or service-wide problems / improve on platform performance
• Demonstrate a strong commitment to the quality and ongoing quality assurance of the product/services in use, and take appropriate action
• Ensure alignment to platform and service release plans for effective deployment of solution designs
• Drive and implement design review processes & practices with the team & participate & positively contribute to design reviews for the feature area led by others
• Apply expertise in engineering and available technologies to enable effective review processes
• Cascade review lessons learnt for the benefit of the broader team
• Enable problem resolution across technical teams, apply and or facilitate root cause analysis, deeply understand the root causes of issues and find ways to resolve them (sustainably)
• Continuously review and find ways to optimize team processes & improve engineering quality, productivity, and team responsiveness to feedback and changing priorities
• Optimize, refactors and reuse components to improve performance and maintainability ensuring maximum efficiency, effectiveness, and return on investment
• Take accountability for maintaining platform standards and best practices, and drive adoption across multiple service teams
• Demonstrate knowledge of, identify and find required data for the ongoing monitoring & improvement of the platform feature area
• Proactively monitor the performance of the platform features & solutions
• Translate monitoring data into clearly articulated descriptions of opportunities & defects, their impact to the customer scenario and to the product or service as a whole, and the relevance to product and service targets (within scope of the job)
• Cascade and communicate these insights across the team to influence platform decision making
• Leverage production performance monitoring and customer data to make feature area technical design and implementation decisions
• Synthesize…