Senior Platform Engineer (Cloud) at Old Mutual South Africa

Job Description

Build high performing, scalable enterprise grade platforms that enable business agility and rapid deployment within an ever-changing business environment.
This is achieved by embracing system and design thinking to implement platforms leveraging software automation principles and data driven insight.

• Identify, internally or externally, technologies and patterns to deliver version control to development teams and apply the Old Mutual Cloud Security Controls Standard.
• Assist the Platform Engineering Product Owner to refine the product backlog, and define new quarterly objectives, informed by the demand of development teams.
• Own the design of the platform deployment system and associated tools, processes, role assignments, dependencies, and documentation.
• Ensure software configuration management tooling adheres to the Old Mutual Cloud Security Controls Standard.
• Facilitate cadence calls with the development teams to understand demand in software configuration management and deployment, in order maintain the Platform Engineering product backlog.
• Own the execution/implementation of multiple Platform Engineering objectives, per quarter.
• Develop boilerplate infrastructure-as-code to provision build and deployment environments for software teams.
• Craft and maintain Platform Engineering documentation, templates and style guides and assist software development teams to adopt standards during delivery.
• Review technical artefacts (code, templates and documentation) 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 to the software development and architecture teams.
• Craft public-facing artefacts (blog posts, whitepapers, or open-source projects) which can be used by the engineering community outside the organization.
• Represent Old Mutual at relevant industry events (e.g. Meetups, conferences, webinars etc.), as a speaker or panelist.

Minimum Qualifications

• Programming diploma/on the job training, with 5+ years of programming experience.
• Experience working with information architecture and design interfaces.
• Knowledge of the Software Development Lifecycle. Knowledge of DevOps 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 (any of: Elasticsearch, New Relic, AWS X-Ray, Amazon CloudWatch)
• Knowledge of LAN and WAN networking concepts (routing and switching), TCP/IP advantageous.
• Strong knowledge and practical implementation of: 
• AWS Services: AWS Lambda, AWS CodeBuild, AWS CodePipeline, AWS CodeCommit, AWS CloudFormation
• Kubernetes
• Terraform
• Jenkins
• Prometheus
• Grafana
• Shell (e.g., Bash) scripts 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

Additional Qualifications(Preferred)

• AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
• AWS Certified Security Specialty
• Cisco Certified Networking Associate