Senior Platform Engineer
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Role summary
Responsible for design, implementation, and ongoing support of infrastructure platforms for delivering applications. Platforms may connect various legacy and cloud technologies using programming containers (Kubernetes). Supports the lifecycle of platform engineering from testing to deployment to operations. Works with end users and stakeholder to analyze existing processes. Develops, codes, tests, debugs, and documents platforms to achieve the objectives. Works on projects and leverages its knowledge of platform engineering methodologies, hardware characteristics, and other technologies to produce comprehensive solutions, within the agreed quality, service commitment levels, schedules, and budgets. Fully conversant with software and platform engineering concepts and methodologies and current development languages and methods. Requires knowledge in developing and managing containers.
Job summary sourced from the Empsight benchmark job library.
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