Position: Platform Engineer
Company: SPD-Ukraine
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 5y
English level: upper
Published: 2023-02-01T00:00:00+02:00

As the Platform Engineer in PitchBook’s engineering team, you will work to optimize the utilization of every asset (human or machine) that PitchBook employs to build software. Your target will be to consistently delight PitchBook customers through the reliability, quality, and delivery speed of our products, and to measurably improve the lives of our engineers by automating away all manual processes required from code to delivery.

**About the project:** PitchBook — a platform for investment professionals. Our software provides access to data and analytical tools to get answers fast and discover promising opportunities. Uncovers actionable insights and trends hidden within the financial data of more than three million companies. Users all over the world include large corporations, start-ups, venture capital and private equity firms, investment banks, and many others. Features of PitchBook: Advanced search / Discovery & insights / Company profiles / Workflow & efficiency / Many more.

You will utilize your extensive background building, deploying, and delivering products end-to-end. You will be both hands-on (identifying delivery technologies, building pipelines, digging deep into our infrastructure and cloud deployments) and broad (leading, mentoring, supporting, strategizing).

Your ability to collaborate with colleagues, level up engineers and development through automation, reliability services, support, and enable efficient usage of our cloud platform across hundreds of engineers globally will be critical to your success. You will solicit feedback, engage others with empathy, and help create a culture of belonging, teamwork, and purpose.

**We are looking for a person who has:**

- 5+ years in DevOps, Developer Experience, Site Reliability Engineering, or Software Development Engineering roles with large-scale systems.
- 5+ years coding and delivering software as an engineer, preferably in Java.
- 5+ years in a role responsible for department- or company-level DevOps, SRE, and/or DevEx ownership.
- Extensive background in Docker, Kubernetes (+ EKS/GKE/Helm), Ingress & Load Balancers (e.g., NGINX), Linux, IaaS / PaaS / SaaS solutions, and distributed microservices' architecture.
- Strong skills in DevOps, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and GitOps configuration & CI/CD pipelines, including Jenkins, Flux/ArgoCD, Terraform, Puppet/Chef, GitHub CI/Actions, or similar tools.
- Strong skills in system administration, shared services management and HA solutions, including for web services, messaging solutions (Kafka, RabbitMQ), databases (e.g., PostgreSQL, MS SQL Server), and caching solutions.
- Has successfully built and executed multi-year technical initiatives, with a strong metrics focus.
- Excellent communication skills, written and verbal. You’re a polished presenter. You can effectively read the situation and adjust your communication style to the audience.

**Sounds like you? Here are some of what you’ll be doing:**

- Owns engineering operations strategies, practices, and standards across the organization, working closely with engineering leadership.
- Evangelizes and organizes PitchBook’s DevOps culture, integrating product and engineering with operations seamlessly through structure, collaboration, enablement, and automation.
- Devises solutions that optimize and accelerate the SDLC while maintaining exceptional quality and security, repeatedly applied through automation.
- Manage platform engineering, including cloud managed services, base images, containerization strategy and execution, infrastructure automation (+ GitOps), cloud procurement, and governance.
- Manage developer experience (DevEx), including developer productivity, SDLC and operational metrics, automated CI/CD pipelines, value stream management and tracking, tool selection and integration.
- Describes technical context in intuitive ways for different audiences, adapting communication from highly technical deep dives with engineers to non-technical dialogue with executive stakeholders.
- Learns constantly, including in available managed services (PaaS/SaaS/IaaS), libraries, frameworks, and platforms (commercial and open source), pros/cons and cost/benefit tradeoffs.
- Follow the company’s application of Agile, Lean, and principles of fast flow to engineering department efficiency and productivity, and owns operations’ role in process automation to achieve fluidity.

**Team Structure:** 1 Lead, 2 PFE specialists

**Schedule:** flexible (with the need to attend team meetings)

**Interview steps:**

1) Pre-screening Interview
2) Technical Interview
3) HR-Interview
4) Interview with client

**We offer:**

- Financial support for your and your family’s relocation.
- Legal support of tax residence for team members outside Ukraine.
- Financial reimbursement of expenses on medical services outside Ukraine.
- Military leave status with 50% of your monthly reward saved.
- 20 working days of annual paid vacation and sick leaves.
- Educational support and financial reimbursement of language classes.

If you love building customer-centric solutions, strive for excellence every day, are adaptable and focused, and believe work should be fun, come join us!