Principal Platform Engineer

 Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

 

Permanent

Job Summary:

Platform Engineer bridge the gaps between software and hardware. They are essential in administering all software services configurations into various environments and supervising application packaging processes while maintaining optimal quality for each application. They manage and maintain all applications, prepare ad hoc reports for various systems and assets, and evaluate and document all operating systems per required standards and associate requests.

Core Responsibilities

• Accountable for the technical decision making, defining successful outcomes and owning engineering execution in the team.
•Develop business cases for investments to drive improvements in metrics. •Build automation to support product development and data analytics initiatives. •Create, maintain and track designs (at high and detailed design level) with issue resolution.
•Identify new/emerging technologies for adoption, drive consistent code reviews.
•Provide high quality content deliverables using the appropriate document templates.
•Work with product management to direct priorities and ensure successful execution.
•Participate in the Agile Devops design, development, testing, and release of new capabilities and features with focus on release and post-production support •Coordinate, approve, and/or perform changes to the systems within their portfolio and their infrastructure
•Deploy enhancements to application infrastructure in complex data environments running on premise and in the cloud
•Develop, execute, and maintain system integration of data management platforms running on a variety of frameworks
•Continuously improve existing running platform by conducting the following operational maintenance checks: - Monitoring and Alerting -Automation and Reliability

Experience Required:

• Experience with engineering CI/CD pipelines for micro service and container architecture
• Subject Matter Expert (SME) on a specific technology or vendor product
• Narrow skills as specialized with deep knowledge in a single technology, application, or a suite of products. (I shaped).
• Practiced with APIs.
• Skilled with scripting and frameworks
• Capable of working with a range of operating systems.
• Expected 5-8 years relevant experience in a product, with overall 8+ years career in Technology.
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