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  AWS cloud architecture and services, with strong understanding of AWS best
  practices and the Well-Architected Framework.
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  Building platform APIs, automation, system-level tooling and/or internal developer
  platforms.
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  Infrastructure as Code tooling and practices, including Terraform, CDK, Pulumi and
  Crossplane.
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  Container orchestration principles and Kubernetes; CKA certification preferable.
  • Cloud-native systems, distributed systems and service architectures, including
  associated design trade-offs.
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  Building and operating scalable, secure and highly available platforms within AWS
  environments.

Requirements

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  5+ years of experience in a Platform Engineering capacity – building self-service
  platforms and abstractions used by other engineering teams.
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  2 - 3+ years of experience as a Software Engineer using languages such as Java,
  JavaScript, Golang or Python.
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  6+ years of experience working with Public Cloud, with strong hands-on AWS
  experience.
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  6+ years of experience with containerisation and container platforms.
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  Strong experience with Kubernetes GitOps practices using ArgoCD / Flux and
  Helm/Kustomize.
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  Strong experience implementing monitoring and observability solutions using tools
  such as CloudWatch, Prometheus, Grafana, Loki and X-Ray.
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  Strong understanding of DevOps practices and CI/CD tools such as GitHub Actions
  and GitLab CI/CD.
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  Proven experience building complex, production-grade platforms and making these
  available for self-service consumption by engineering teams.
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  Hands-on experience with Crossplane, ArgoCD and Backstage is non
  negotiable.
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  Proven experience building Kubernetes Operators is non-negotiable.