Platform Engineer
July 14
🏢 In-office - Los Angeles
Description
• Taking ownership of the health and reliability of the live production service and infrastructure, ensuring that SLOs/SLAs are consistently met • Designing, building, and automating critical portions of the Upbound Cloud service infrastructure • Troubleshooting and problem-solving effectively to remediate infrastructure related issues that affect service health • Reporting and fixing bugs in private and public projects. • Providing routine maintenance and support of Kubernetes based infrastructure, including extending Kubernetes API and functionality via CRD/Controller applications • Entrusted to make technology decisions for the business, procuring the right technology and designing and implementing a self-service solution for the teams that consume Upbound infrastructure • Collaborating with the development teams to assess and recommend technologies that support company organizational needs • Balancing tradeoffs between enterprise and open source technologies to better serve Upbound • Supporting the full project lifecycle - discovery, analysis, architecture, design, documentation, building, migration, automation, and production-readiness
Requirements
• Worked in teams that have deeply internalized site reliability philosophies in their culture, environments, and processes • Written lots of code and automation in modern languages (Go is ideal) • Managed production Kubernetes deployments or have been responsible for deploying/managing workloads running on Kubernetes in production • Architected and deployed highly scaled and reliable services, solutions, and infrastructure in multiple major cloud providers • You are intimately familiar with public cloud infrastructure: AWS, Azure, and GCP • Incorporated modern operational and application delivery tools and methodologies into your production deployment workflows, like those from HashiCorp (e.g. Terraform), CI/CD, IaC, and GitOps
Benefits
• 11 paid holidays • Generous Accrued Time Off increasing with years of service • Generous paid sick time • Annual day of service
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