Platform Engineer

Position Summary:

As a Platform Engineer, you’ll be responsible for implementing platform-as-a-service capabilities that enable agile teams to develop, run, and manage applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure typically associated with developing and launching an application. You’ll use the latest lean and agile thinking to solve tough problems and challenge yourself and others every day. You’ll play an important role in driving our digital projects to success.

Primary Responsibilities:

• Engineer and maintain a self-service application delivery environment for developers through automation, virtualization, and process improvement
• Act as a bridge between operations and development teams
• Support knowledge transfer by mentoring others
• Coordinate internal resource and infrastructure team

Key Performance Indicators:

• Developer satisfaction
• Platform quality and performance
• Technical advisor
• Continually learn and grow
• Great team player

Experience:

• Minimum 5 years of hands-on platform engineering experience in the following areas: designing, managing, and optimizing complex multi-tier architectures; scripting; source code version control; configuration management; continuous build, integration, and deployment; system administration; containerization; cloud orchestration; monitoring; and security
• Strong experience with CI/CD tools, Gitlab CI, ArgoCD, IaC, terraform, helm, Kubernetes and docker
• Hands-on expertise major cloud provider (AWS/Alibaba/Azure) in networking (VPC/VPN), computing (EKS/MKS/RDS/EC2/Lambda) and security (WAF) area. 
• Proficiency in scripting languages (Python, Bash, Go, Ansible)
• Conduct code reviews, penetration testing coordination, and risk assessments to mitigate vulnerabilities proactively.
• Experience working in a product-oriented, team-based environment that uses modern digital delivery approaches such as user experience design, lean, agile, DevSecOps, and cloud computing
• Good to have experience for Mobile application and Web service development.
• Experience serving as a coach and mentor to other engineers will be an advantage

Education:

• Degree in a technical field, or equivalent work or training experience

Skills / Competencies:

• Expertise in platform engineering
• Knowledge of engineering fundamentals and architecture
• Knowledge of cloud environment operation
• Able to think holistically around engineering issues
• A thoughtful, adaptive, and positive mindset
• Empathetic, humble, and collaborative mindset
• Good written and verbal communication skills in both Cantonese and English, technical and otherwise