Position Summary:

As a Platform Engineer, you’ll be responsible for implementing platform-as-a-service capabilities that enable agile teams to develop, run, and manage applications without the complexity of building and maintaining the infrastructure typically associated with developing and launching an application. You’ll use the latest lean and agile thinking to solve tough problems and challenge yourself and others every day. You’ll play an important role in driving our digital projects to success.

Primary Responsibilities:

Engineer and maintain a self-service application delivery environment for developers through automation, virtualization, and process improvement

Act as a bridge between operations and development teams

Support knowledge transfer by mentoring others

Key Performance Indicators:

Developer satisfaction

Platform quality and performance

Continually learn and grow

Great team player

Experience:

Minimum 5 years of hands-on platform engineering experience in the following areas: designing, managing, and optimizing complex multi-tier architectures; scripting; source code version control; configuration management; continuous build, integration, and deployment; system administration; containerization; cloud orchestration; monitoring; and security

Experience working in a technical environment that makes use of languages, frameworks, tools and technologies such as Java, Groovy, Ruby, PHP, Python, Spring, Grails, Rails, REST APIs, JSON, SQL, NoSQL, Ansible, Git, GitLab, Jenkins, Docker, AWS, Kubernetes and Terraform

Experience working in a product-oriented, team-based environment that uses modern digital delivery approaches such as user experience design, lean, agile, DevSecOps, and cloud computing

Experience serving as a coach and mentor to other engineers will be an advantage

Education:

Degree in a technical field, or equivalent work or training experience

Skills / Competencies:

Expertise in platform engineering

Knowledge of engineering fundamentals and architecture

Knowledge of cloud environment operation

Able to think holistically around engineering issues

A thoughtful, adaptive, and positive mindset

Empathetic, humble, and collaborative mindset

Good written and verbal communication skills in both Cantonese and English, technical and otherwise