Senior Platform Engineer

15 hours ago

Auckland City, New Zealand SECTION6 Full time

**Senior DevOps Engineer**

**IMPORTANT TO NOTE**:
**About SECTION6**

Our teams are cross-functional and responsible for the full software development life cycle, from conception to deployment. We guide our customers to accomplish their missions by leading the way in making complex software systems simple, reliable, and secure.

**S6 Core Values**

At SECTION6, we openly share our knowledge and perspectives. We do the right thing the right way. We seek and champion the best ideas, challenge norms, and embrace change, and we are united by a shared purpose.

Furthermore, the team at SECTION6 are united by the following core values:
**Characteristic Attribute**

**What We Do**

**About the role**

To be considered for this role, you will possess a strong background in platform engineering, grounded in a foundation of computer science with a proven track record of developing and operating secure, robust, and highly maintainable platforms. You will be a strong proponent and practitioner of Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and familiar with all aspects of the software development lifecycle, from requirements and design to development, testing, and operations.

If this resonates with you, please continue reading.

**Responsibilities**:

- Participate in a cohesive team of high-performing engineers and other stakeholders to ensure the smooth operation of the platform.
- Consistently demonstrate high standards, attention to detail, and a propensity for action.
- Clearly and effectively communicate with a diverse range of stakeholders.
- Address non-functional requirements, protect the platform and associated data, and ensure compliance with industry standards and regulations.
- Ensure the platform meets and exceeds the needs of all stakeholders.
- Identify and eliminate incidental complexity, increase clarity and maintainability.
- Seek out requirements, identify risks, and anticipate outcomes.
- Lead, advise, and mentor less experienced team members.
- Provide technical leadership and develop, evolve, and evangelise a technical vision for the team.
- Incrementally and continuously improve the platforms you work with to create measurable business value for our clients.

**Required Technology-Related Experience**:

- Solid experience in Infrastructure-as-Code practices, configuration management tools, and DevOps.
- Solid experience in Public cloud platforms including Amazon Web Services, Azure, and Google Cloud Platform.
- At least 5 years of experience in creating CI/CD pipelines for performance optimisation, scalability, monitoring, and debugging.
- Continuous Deployment and Kubernetes templating tools.
- At least 5 years of hands-on experience in working with Microservices and Container Platforms.
- Solid experience in container-based technologies, including Kubernetes, OpenShift, Operators, Helm.
- At least 7 years of experience in working hands-on with databases and data processing.
- Good working knowledge of at least one system language, including Python, Rust, Go, etc.
- Structured, hypothesis-based root cause analysis in complex systems.
- Exceptional written and verbal communication skills, including the ability to concisely articulate and convey technical concepts.

**Qualifications**:

- A strong foundation in platform design, operation and automation.
- A thorough understanding of modern infrastructure design patterns and cloud computing paradigms.
- Demonstrable experience with modern automation tools and frameworks.
- Experience in complex commercial environments, using Agile methodologies and modern software delivery practices (automated testing, CI/CD, Infrastructure as Code, etc.).
- A high degree of adaptability and an ability to assimilate new information quickly.

**Attitudes and attributes we look for**:
At SECTION6, we care deeply about what we do and how we do it. Given we spend much of our time at work, it is important that you enjoy working with us, as much as we enjoy working with you. To assist in assessing a mutual culture fit, here are the attitudes and attributes that our team possess and which we look for:

- A passion for technology and a desire to continuously learn, improve and participate in a high-performing team.
- Energy, drive and a commitment to achieve results and strive for excellence.
- A high degree of organisation, individual initiative and personal accountability.
- A nimble, analytical mind that thrives on creative, disciplined, hands-on problem solving.
- An ability and willingness to adapt to changing requirements, quickly learn new technologies and abstract concepts.
- An ability to operate under pressure in dynamic, fluid environments and be constantly challenged.

**Benefits at SECTION6**
- Generative culture
- Work on projects that have a broad impact
- Clear career progression
- Training and personal growth
- Team events and social activities
- Industry event participation
- Flat management structure
- Flexible working arrangements
- Parental leave programme
- Annua

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