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The announced job offer is made public by the firm: DroneUp LLC and it was included in jobs list the date of: 2022-10-22 in the website greenenergyjobsonline.com.

It is announced that they have a job offer at the category of Engineering and the jobs location is in the state of Virginia at the city Virginia Beach, in the country US - at this current ZipCode: 23462

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Job Overview

Description:

DroneUp is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer who will be responsible for developing, maintaining, and continuously improving and supporting both internal and client-facing IT infrastructure as well as our internal developer platform. The ideal candidate is a strong developer as well as an engineer strong in operations. Senior engineers are also expected to mentor, grow, and pair with existing platform engineers. The Platform Engineering organization at DroneUp is responsible for the developer experience including all cloud, security, CI/CD, and related tooling and is working to build our internal developer platform for software delivery and orchestration at scale. Some of our principles in Platform Engineering are: self-service, security by default, a bias towards automation, and emotional intelligence.

Responsibilities

Architect and support tools or in-house programs
Support a multi-cloud environment, including AWS, Azure, and GCP
Provide feedback to others and participate in peer reviews/pair programming
Actively practice Test Driven Development through designing, development, and debugging unit and integration tests for new and existing infrastructure and code
Practice continuous curiosity of existing implementations and new technologies and share with the team
Identify and fix root cause defects and production bugs, communicate impact of bugs, and work with stakeholders to schedule fixes
Understand and research changes to external integrations and update code
Practice continuous improvement across all job areas and personally/professionally
Communicate clearly with the team and other stakeholders and provide technical direction while doing so
Stay current with platform changes and third-party libraries, proactively investigate better solutions for current solutions
Grow the engineering culture towards a high-performing team
Practice the arts of self-service, least privilege, and security by default in all solutions
Other duties as assigned

Requirements:

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field or 5+ years experience as a software engineer
Proficiency in kubernetes (CKA, CKAD optional)
Extensive experience in Unix/Linux
Polyglot and proficiency in multiple languages (Golang, Python, HCL and more preferred)
Knowledge of multi-cloud environment, including AWS, Azure, and GCP (familiar with at least two of these environments)
Experience in using git in trunk-based development models
Experience with backend database technology a plus, including supporting and performance enhancements
Experience using Open Telemetry and true observability (and other monitoring tools, i.e,. Datadog, new relic, etc.) and the difference between it and monitoring and logging
Advanced experience working with and creating public cloud resources in Terraform or other infrastructure as code tools
Experience participating in a 24/7 on-call schedule without supervision and successfully resolving issues without escalation
Good understanding of networking and routing principles
Experience in dockerizing applications and orchestrating them with Kubernetes
Familiarity with security configuration for web/api services (SSL, Access control)
Experience with JIRA or other work tracking systems and the ability to resolve tickets according to priority order and collaborating with the Technical Product Manager to adjust priorities
Excellent documentation details, using Confluence or similar tooling - this could include support notes, runbooks, ADRs, etc
Familiarity with creating an end-to-end CI/CD pipeline using various tools with artifact storage
Familiarity with use of MacOS as a desktop and predominantly CLI interfaces
Experience in a product mindset by understanding stakeholder needs, priorities, and business value
Experience with other tool stacking including, but not limited to: CircleCI, Github, GCP, Kubernetes (via GKE), Secrets Management, Feature Flagging, Terraform