Broad domain architect for the internal developer platform and all cloud engineering
Drive architecture for tooling or in-house software
Mentor other platform engineers to drive strong engineering practices
Enablement of platform engineering technical capabilities in our internal client teams in software engineering
Peer with the senior architects and engineers in software engineering
Architecture and engineering focused on GCP environment
Architect and oversee GKE cluster operations and workload management
Provide feedback to others and participate in peer reviews / pair programming
Drive the broad adoption of Test Driven Development through designing, development, and debugging unit and integration tests for new and existing infrastructure and code
Continuous curiosity of existing implementations and new technologies and sharing with the team
Practice continuous improvement across all job areas and personally / professionally
Clearly communicate with platform engineering teams and other stakeholders and provide technical direction while doing so
Stay current with platform changes and third-party libraries.
Proactively investigate better solutions for current solutions
An understanding of Open Telemetry and true observability and the difference between it and monitoring and logging
Grow the engineering culture towards a high-performing team
Practice the arts of self-service, least privilege and security by default in all solutions
Define and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs), Service Level Indicators (SLIs), and error budgets
Lead incident response, including on-call rotations, root cause analysis, and post-mortem reviews
Implement and optimize monitoring, alerting, and observability systems for system reliability
Collaborate on capacity planning and performance optimization to ensure high availability
Other duties as assigned

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field or 8+ years experience as a software engineer
Proficiency in kubernetes. Optional: CKA, CKAD
Extensive experience in Unix / Linux
Polyglot and proficiency in multiple languages (ideally: Golang, NodeJS, Python, HCL and more)
Knowledge of multi-cloud environment, including GCP, AWS, and Azure (familiar with at least two of these environments)
Experienced in using git in trunk-based development models
Experience in use of feature flagging in infrastructure and runtime (k8s)
Experience with backend database technology is a plus, including supporting and performance enhancements
Advanced experience working with and creating public cloud resources in Terraform or other infrastructure as code tools
Experience participating in a 24/7 on-call schedule without supervision and successfully resolving issues without escalation
Experience using Open Telemetry for observability as well as other monitoring tools such as datadog, new relic and others
Good understanding of networking and routing principles
Experience in dockerizing applications and orchestrating them with kubernetes
Familiarity with security configuration for web/api services (SSL, Access control)
Experience with JIRA or other work tracking systems.
Ability to resolve tickets according to priority order and collaborating with the Technical Product Manager to adjust priorities
Excellent documentation details, using Confluence or similar tooling – this could include support notes, runbooks, ADRs, etc
Familiarity with creating an end to end CI/CD pipeline using various tools with artifact storage
Familiarity with use of MacOS as a desktop and predominantly CLI interfaces
Experience in a “product mindset” by understanding stakeholder needs, priorities and business value
Experience with security compliance frameworks including FedRAMP, NIST, and SOC2
Proven experience in SRE practices, including incident management and reliability engineering
Familiarity with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Honeycomb for observability
Experience with chaos engineering, load testing, or reliability testing frameworks.

Benefits

Employees are expected to provide a high level of security to any personal or private information accessed as part of their work, whether at a DroneUp facility or remotely.
Participate in security training.
Remain sensitive to individual rights to personal privacy.
Comply with company policies.

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools

kubernetesGCPGKEGolangNodeJSPythonHCLTerraformOpen Telemetrydocker

Soft Skills

mentoringcommunicationcollaborationcontinuous improvementcuriosityincident managementproblem-solvingtechnical directionteam cultureprioritization

Certifications

Bachelor's degree in Computer ScienceCKACKAD