As a Senior Platform Engineer at Old Mutual, you will play a crucial role in building and maintaining high-performing, scalable enterprise-grade platforms that foster business agility and rapid deployment. Embrace system and design thinking to implement platforms, leveraging software automation principles and data-driven insights. This position is based in Cape Town or Durban.
Duties and Responsibilities
-Build high-performing, scalable enterprise-grade platforms to facilitate business agility and rapid deployment in a dynamic business environment. -Identify and apply technologies and patterns for version control to development teams, ensuring adherence to the Old Mutual Cloud Security Controls Standard. -Collaborate with the Platform Engineering Product Owner to refine the product backlog and define quarterly objectives based on the development teams' demand. -Own the design of the platform deployment system, including tools, processes, role assignments, dependencies, and documentation. -Ensure that software configuration management tooling aligns with the Old Mutual Cloud Security Controls Standard. -Conduct cadence calls with development teams to understand software configuration management and deployment demands, maintaining the Platform Engineering product backlog. -Execute/implement multiple Platform Engineering objectives per quarter. -Develop infrastructure-as-code to provision build and deployment environments for software teams. -Craft and maintain documentation, templates, and style guides for Platform Engineering, assisting software development teams in adopting standards. -Review technical artifacts generated by Associate Platform Engineers, Platform Engineers, and software development teams. -Respond (2nd line) to and resolve support tickets in the Platform Engineering support queue. -Facilitate AWS technical enablement workshops for software development and architecture teams. -Create public-facing artifacts such as blog posts, whitepapers, or open-source projects for the broader engineering community. -Represent Old Mutual at industry events as a speaker or panelist.
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Qualifications and Experience
-Programming diploma/on-the-job training with 5+ years of programming experience. -Experience in information architecture and design interfaces. -Knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle; DevOps knowledge is advantageous. -Familiarity with architecture styles, Microservice, and Serverless architectures. -Knowledge of at least one high-level programming language: Java, C#, C++. -Ability to produce technical documentation.
Technical Skills Required: -Monitoring solutions at scale (Elasticsearch, New Relic, AWS X-Ray, Amazon CloudWatch). -Knowledge of LAN and WAN networking concepts (routing and switching); TCP/IP knowledge is advantageous. -Strong knowledge and practical implementation of AWS Services (Lambda, CodeBuild, CodePipeline, CodeCommit, CloudFormation), Kubernetes, Terraform, Jenkins, Prometheus, Grafana. Shell scripts (e.g., Bash) are advantageous. -Experience maintaining any *nix-based platform (Linux, FreeBSD, etc.). -AWS Certified Solutions Architect Associate, AWS Certified SysOps Administrator Associate, AWS Certified Developer Associate, AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional.
