Platform Engineer

Purpose:

At NAB, we’re passionate about building software that solves problems. We count on our platform engineers to empower users with a rich feature set, high availability, and stellar performance level to pursue their missions. As we expand customer deployments, we’re seeking an experienced SRE with significant platform engineering experience to deliver core banking services to customers and colleagues. Specifically, we are searching for someone who enjoys collaborating with a cross-functional team to develop real-world solutions and positive user experiences for every interaction.

Accountability:

• Run the production environment by monitoring availability and taking a holistic view of system health
• Run core banking ledger and switch systems with the domain knowledge to run mission critical systems
• Build software and systems to manage platform infrastructure and applications in AWS and Azure
• Improve reliability, quality, and time-to-market of our suite of software solutions. Execute chaos tests, performance benchmark tests and functional tests.
• Build non functional and functional test frameworks for testing various communication protocols like HTTPS, Kafka (AVRO / JSON), AS2805 (SNMP), ODBC, MQ
• Measure and optimize system performance and reliability, with an eye toward pushing our capabilities forward, getting ahead of customer needs, and innovating for continual improvement.
• Provide primary operational support and engineering for multiple large-scale distributed software applications
• Build and run automation on components in AWS and Azure
• Uplift logging, cyber security and reliability – designing strategies and patterns around achieving them
• Run post mortem incidents via data, objectively and mathematically measure failures and arrive at root cause analysis with the remediation mechanisms that ensures the same incident doesn’t occur again.

Key responsibilities will include:

• Gather and analyze metrics from operating systems as well as applications to assist in performance tuning and fault finding
• Partner with development teams to improve services through rigorous testing and release procedures
• Participate in system design consulting, platform management, and capacity planning
• Create sustainable systems and services through automation and uplifts
• Balance feature development speed and reliability with well-defined service-level objectives
• Design, implement and maintain different AWS services
• Automating code with object oriented software engineering principles
• Work across the full spectrum of the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC)
• Actively contribute to planning sessions and other Agile ceremonies across the team
• Liaise with users and stakeholders of the platform
• Guide team members in their technical journey
• In addition to your strong technical capability, you will be a proven team player, problem solver, independent thinker and have a collaborative attitude towards your work and colleagues.

Skills & Experience (Total experience: 12-18 years Exp)

It is expected that the role holder will most likely have the following skills and experience:

Looking for engineers who have built real software before - like Java restful APIs or some software and run them in production as software engineers / SREs

• 3+ years of AWS / Azure experience
• 5+ years in application development and support
• Strong Experience in Scripting, Linux and CI/CD preferably Jenkins
• Strong programming skills with Python and groovy
• Infrastructure tools such as Terraform, Github and Ansible
• Strong analytical / problem-solving skills
• Excellent communication and interpersonal skills, both oral and written.
• Excellent time management skills
• Ability to assess and implement new technologies and processes.
• An open mindset and proven ability to innovate and influence.

Desirable

• Experience with shell scripting.
• Exposure to DevOps and Agile.
• Exposure to Monitoring and Logging tools such as Splunk
• Experience with containerised environments using Docker and Kubernetes

Education

• Tertiary qualification in a relevant technical subject or equivalent experience.
• Postgrad qualifications and self-learning courses and certifications (Coursera, Udacity, AWS, etc.) highly regarded.