Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

Requirements

• Strong experience working on cloud platforms, focusing on security, performance, and cost.
• Exceptional problem-solving and communication skills, facilitating effective collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Mastery in infrastructure automation using terraform with a deep understanding of its capabilities.
• Strong understanding of cloud platforms (AWS preferred) and effective cloud resource management.
• Excellent scripting and automation skills using languages like Python, Bash, or PowerShell.
• In-depth understanding of containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes.
• Solid grasp of networking concepts and security principles.
• Experience with GIT development, deployment, and support of data processes and procedures.
• Solid experience with tools for performance monitoring and troubleshooting.
• Proven experience and expertise in Cloud operational monitoring and administration to provide overall system visibility and observability with Datadog, CloudWatch and similar tools.

Responsibilities

• Design and manage cloud infrastructure with terraform with a focus on scalability, resilience, and security.
• Provide technical guidance to the DevOps team, fostering a culture of continual learning.
• Enhance infrastructure performance, monitor operations, and tackle bottlenecks proactively.
• Set up and maintain CI/CD pipelines, implementing automated testing and release processes.
• Explore and recommend tools and technologies to improve the DevOps workflow.
• Build, maintain, optimize, and scale FanDuel’s infrastructure.
• Improve operations and processes through automation and advanced tooling.
• Partner with application engineers, promoting best practices and efficient infrastructure use.
• Plan for the growth of FanDuel’s infrastructure, preparing for future challenges.

Preferred Qualifications

• A successful candidate has technical depth and hands-on implementation experience of various practices and tools in the DevOps toolchain.
• The Senior DevOps Engineer is comfortable rolling up their sleeves to design and code modules for infrastructure, application, and processes.
• A system engineering or developer background with the ability to learn quickly and share your knowledge with the broader team.
• A mindset of automate everything, with experience demonstrating this.
• Superior communication and collaboration skills, proven by a history of successful cross team initiatives.
• 3-5 years Linux experience with Python, Perl or Shell scripting.
• 3-5 years of AWS (IAM, S3, KMS, Cloud Formation, VPC, Lambda, Security Groups, SNS, RDS, EMR).
• 3-5 years of GitHub, CI/CD – Buildkite, Jenkins.
• 3-5 years of Configuration Management tools – Puppet or similar (Ansible, Chef).
• 2-4 years of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation) experience.
• 2-3 years of Docker, Container Orchestration (Kubernetes, EKS, ECS), Helm package manager.
• 1-3 years of Messaging – SQS, Kafka, RabbitMQ or similar technologies.
• 1-3 years of DataDog, Cloudwatch monitoring solutions experience.