Position: Platform Engineer
Company: SPD-Ukraine
Category: DevOps
Experience required: 5y
English level: intermediate
Published: 2022-02-01T00:00:00+02:00

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.

You will utilize your extensive background in 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.

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!

**Few words about SPD-Ukraine**

At SPD-Ukraine, great people create great software. Our story started in 2006. Now the team of 500+ cool specialists continues to write our story. Located in Ukraine (Kyiv, Cherkasy), we create products used by people all over the world. And what we do is what gets us out of bed in the morning.

**Required qualifications:**

- 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 the department- or company-level DevOps, SRE, and/or DevEx ownership;
- Extensive background in Docker, Kubernetes (+ EKS/GKE/Helm), Ingress and 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 and 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.

**Scope of your responsibilities:**

- 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.

**What we offer for that**

**Conditions and Space**

You’ll have 20 paid holidays. Get sick? Stay home and get better — sick leavers are paid. Flexible working hours. Work remote or at the office (Kyiv, Cherkasy). You’ll be free to adjust your working space — choose a type of chair and model of laptop (depending on the project).

**Clients and Projects**

You’ll be engaged in the creation of products granted SIIA CODIE and GeekWire awards. Our clients are startups and companies with strong investments and innovative ideas. You’re free to change a project — internal rotation is available.

**Learning and development**

Online corporate library, soft skills training, internal educational events are available for you. Our Career Advisor helps you with a Personal Development Plan. SPD-Ukraine covers your expenses on conferences, certifications, etc. Plus, free English classes with native speakers.

**Sport and Health**

You’ll get compensation for sports activities. If you take COVID testing, SPD-Ukraine covers your expenses. Medical insurance is also available. You’ll be able to get online support from psychologists and mentors provided by a third-party service.

**Fun and Activities**

You’ll enjoy two big company events (SPD Summer Party and SPD Winter Awards). Every month you’ll be able to have team-building activities. Presents are waiting for you for big life events (marriage, childbirth) and nice presents just for fun.

Does this sound like the kind of place you want to work at? We look forward to hearing ’hi’ from you :)