On the Platform Engineering Team, you will be responsible for designing, implementing, and managing internal tool sets used by our Engineering teams in their daily routines. The goal of these efforts is to reduce toil and streamline the process of modernizing internal applications. The primary focus is on implementing and managing Cloud Native Kubernetes-based platform ecosystems to deliver the platform of choice hosting production API’s. You’ll be involved in every aspect of engineering from software development strategies, dev workflows, HA and scalability aligned with modern GitOps practices ensuring that the SLA/SLO and cost objectives of the services are maintained, and improved upon.
Your key responsibilities:In this position you’ll actively seek out ways to contribute and bring new ideas. You will have the opportunity to extensively utilize open source projects/software, often focusing on developing the 'glue' that integrates systems and enhancing their feature sets. Bringing a sense of vision and contributing to the requirements is expected and encouraged.
What you'll bringRequired:
- 6+ years of progressive experience in a combination of development, design in areas of cloud computing
- Coding skills in modern language, ideally Python or Go and SDLC management.
- Automate Kubernetes infrastructure deployment and management using tools such as Terraform, Crossplane to develop self-service platform workflows
- Strong Infrastructure as a Code (IaC) experience on public Cloud (AWS and/or GCP), integrating Terraform/Crossplane to extend IaC capabilities across multiple cloud providers.
- Fluency with Cloud API SDK’s (AWS/GCP) and identify opportunities to deliver self service capabilities for the most common infrastructure and application management tasks
- Experience with Unix/Linux OS internals (filesystems, system calls) and networking
- Experience in working on a large scale, highly available, cloud native infrastructure platform on a public cloud, preferably in a consumer business
- Experience with any K8s managed service (EKS/GKE) with connected automation and orchestration tool development experience such as Argo, Helm, Terraform, Ansible and CNCF tooling ecosystem.
- On-call support won't be necessary at first, but may be eventually
Experience we consider a plus:
- Expertise in building platform tooling in Kubernetes, developing architecture patterns and templates for application runtimes, K8s cluster topology, traffic shaping, API, CI/CD, and observability stacks on AWS or GCP cloud.
- Experience coding in other programming languages, ideally Go operator framework
- Platform security experience, including patching and hardening
- Familiarity with the CNCF tooling across the ecosystem
- Exposure to any observability platforms using open-source tools like VictoriaMetrics, Thanos, Cortex, Prometheus, Datalog and Grafana.
- Medical Insurance
- Glasses Reimbursement
- Life Insurance – Allianz Family
- Kafeteria – My Benefit
- Ericsson Care Line
- Discretionary Time Off (DTO)
- Volunteer Time Off (VTO)
- Additional benefits and perks will be discussed during the interview process
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There’s no perfect candidate. You don't need all the preferred qualifications to make a valuable impact on our team. Our employees and customers come from diverse backgrounds, so if you're passionate about what you could achieve at Vonage, we'd love to hear from you.
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Who we are:
Vonage is a global cloud communications leader. And your talent will further help brands - such as Airbnb, Viber, WhatsApp, and Snapchat - accelerate their digital transformation through our fully programmable-based unified communications, contact center solutions, and communications APIs. Ready to innovate? Then join us today.
Note: The purpose of this profile is to provide a general summary of essential responsibilities for the position and is not meant as an exhaustive list. Assignments may differ for individuals within the same role based on business conditions, departmental need or geographic location.
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