Position: Cloud Platform Engineer, Smart Platform
Company: DataArt
Category: Data Engineer
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper

CLIENT
One of the areas that DataArt’s experts help the client is the development of an exceptional set of solutions for operating online grocery businesses. They are completely based on cloud solutions, everything is hosted on AWS. The custom-designed solutions are individually capable of meeting the complex and growing expectations of shoppers while driving better capacity and delivering greater resilience for online grocery retailers. These achievements have been proven in one of the world’s busiest markets for online groceries. To achieve this, the team uses cutting edge technologies and when that’s not enough, we push the boundaries of what’s possible.

PROJECT OVERVIEW
This is an ongoing set of projects, the main goals are: to develop new features, keep the system reliable and resilient, reduce risks, and improve performance to deliver the best UX for customers. We make the platform compliant with industry standards and customer requests.

TEAM
Cross-team support within the project: Java 11 migrations (to be confirmed, most services seem to be already migrated); RDS migration: migration of version of Postgres in AWS RDS for several of our microservices, migration of internal frameworks: Spring Boot, AWS client libraries, security updates, etc.; Data migration: new retailers coming to our platform may need to have their data in their current production systems migrated to the client services; SRE team, ensure support and updating dependencies of services that don’t change often. Some of these services are in the area of “Customer Audit” or “Right to be forgotten”.

Requirements:
Strong knowledge of Python, Bash
Knowledge of Linux: Coreutils, Kernel, File Systems, Networking, etc.
Experience working with AWS
Hands-on experience with Docker and Kubernetes
Experience with version control systems (Git and others)
CI/CD experience
Spoken English

Nice to have:
Understanding and experience of other cloud technologies: GCP, Azure
Knowledge of repositories for containers and code
Experience with AWS CloudFormation/Terraform
Hands-on experience with Gitlab
Experience with Service Mesh design
Understanding of automated dependency update systems