SR Platform Engineer – Vates S.A.

We are looking for a SR Platform Engineer (Ref: 492)

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We are a team passionate for technology, innovation and research. At Vates we are excited to offer world-class custom software development services. We have 30 years of experience providing IT services and solutions to large companies in the USA and LATAM.

We guide the exponential and digital transformation of some of the world's leading companies, such as Motorola, Intel, IBM, Oracle etc. Vates is recognized by Clutch.co as a Top internet of things companies.

We are looking for 1 Senior Platform Engineer to work on a tight knit team within a federated engineering organization maintaining, extending, and improving highly scalable, data-intensive backend systems serving a growing number of Feature Teams. The platform engineer will also have to participate in driving the team’s subsystems towards our aspirational goal of everything ‘well-crafted’.

A great candidate can deliver real customer value while pursuing architecture quality in availability, scalability, interoperability, modifiability, performance, security, and testability.

Responsibilities include:

• Transform technical requirements into well-crafted services & components

• Fully own services & components from planning to coding to testing to monitoring and running them in production

• Work collaboratively inside and outside of your team to deliver business value

• Participate in, contribute to and own architectural designs

• Be part of a continuous improvement culture, identify and address engineering opportunities

Requirements:

• 5-7 years of software engineering industry experience

• Coded, designed and communicated internally and externally architectural perspectives of well-encapsulated systems (e.g. Service Oriented Architecture, containerized services, micro-services).

• Experienced designing and operating software in a Cloud Provider such as AWS, Azure, or GCP

• Experienced API and Data Model design and implementation including how to scale out, make highly available, and map to storage systems

• Experienced with typical tools of the software trade: source control, IDEs, scripting, performance analyzers, logging, metric, and tracing systems

• Adaptable, not wedded to a specific software stack or language; sees these as tools to an end and not the end itself

• Takes special to care and pride to write code which is well documented, maintainable and easily testable, and sees the responsibility of validation and test authoring as co-equal to that of implementation itself

• Understands how to design and develop from a Security Perspective If the proposal is of interest to you, I ask you to send me your updated CV along with your salary claims

Nice to have:

• Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment with an emphasis on a well-maintained testing pyramid.

• Built and operated distributed systems while embracing the discipline of Site Reliability Engineering.

• Used Feature or Release Toggles as a code branching strategy

• Experience with functional programming

• Leveraged cloud-based data storage technologies such as: Relational Databases, NoSql Stores, data caches, etc.

• Selected or extended 3rd party components (commercial or open-source) that provide operational leverage while not constraining product and engineering creativity

• Experience designing, modifying, or operating multi-tenant systems

Thank you and have a nice day