Staff Platform Engineer - SRE Engineer (Site reliability, DevOps)

Senior Developer

Ref: 359Thursday 7 September 2023

The rise of remote and hybrid work has created a huge demand for solutions that make new ways of collaboration and co-creation possible. Our client is creating the hybrid work experiences of the future, as a highly-skilled Platform Engineer you will help create and design the next generation of video conferencing solutions.

Responsible for designing, developing, and managing activities for a specific software product or group of products from product definition and planning through production, release, and end of life.

Can you help us?

Responsibilities for the Staff Platform Engineer

  • Create innovative new features for our Next Generation video endpoints and conferencing solutions.
  • Design and build unique capabilities to expand our Android platform.
  • Work in a very collaborative and agile team to build cool solutions.
  • Manages and expands relationships with internal and outsourced development partners on software systems design and development
  • Reviews and evaluates designs and project activities for compliance with systems design and development guidelines and standards; provides tangible feedback to improve product quality and mitigate failure risk
  • Provides domain-specific expertise and overall software systems leadership and perspective to cross-organization projects, programs, and activities
  • Drives innovation and integration of new technologies into projects and activities in the software systems design organization
  • Provides guidance and mentoring to less-experienced staff members

Knowledge & Skills required for the Staff Platform Engineer

  • Hands on experience in building platforms using Terraform, Ansible or other tools. 
  • Experience with test automation frameworks and tools such as Robot Framework, Selenium, Selendroid, Appium, Cucumber, etc.
  • Experience in testing in Unix/Linux environments or Android/iOS mobile
  • Experience with RESTful API or other related API testing and tools
  • Experience building CI/CD pipelines and Jenkins a plus
  • Knowledge of networking, IP, firewalls, DNS or H.323 protocols

Scope & Impact

  • Impact of decisions can often alter product timelines by multiple quarters
  • Impacts efficiencies and delivery times across all software teams, takes responsibility for the quality of deliveries
  • Proactively and effectively interacts and partners across different departments within and outside the software engineering function