Platform Engineer I

Description Platform Engineer IChennai, IndiaThe Opportunity:Anthology offers the largest EdTech ecosystem on a global scale, supporting over 150 million users in 80 countries. Our mission is to provide dynamic, data-informed experiences to the global education community so that learners and educators can achieve their goals. We believe in the power of a truly diverse and inclusive workforce. As we expand globally, we are committed to making diversity, inclusion, and belonging a foundational part of not only our hiring practices but who we are as a company.For more information about Anthology and our career opportunities, please visit.As a member of the PlatformEngineeringteam,you will combinesoftware and systems engineering tohelpbuild and run large-scale, distributed,andfault-tolerant systems.This is a driven, creative, and energetic team that works in a flexible and agile fashion to deliver world-class products to the education market. By joining this team, you will become a core contributing member tothe DevOps team delivering eLearning services to over a thousand clients,comprisingof almost four million users worldwide.Specific responsibilities will include:Engaging with development teams onarchitecting better system design, deployment,capacityplanning, identifying/highlighting areas for improvement, enforcing DevOpsandSRE practices, and supporting them as they transition to production Monitoring and logging the availability, performance, and health of production systems in support of meeting service level objectives Enhancing and implementing automation and tooling to continuously improve the reliability, scalability, and velocity of services deployed on instances Actively practicing DevOps culture and SRE practices for building well stable product releases across environments 24/7/365 responsibility for assigned production applications, including on-call responsibilities, following defined procedures,owningand managing a runbook for each application, andmaintainingsystem uptime to contractual SLAs Participating in emergency incident response, on-call rosters, andpracticing blameless post-mortems that lead to improvements in resiliency Learning anyappropriate techstack needed for the organization Building,maintaining,and improvingCI/CD pipeline in support of all assigned applications Supportingproductionand non-production environments whereappropriate Executing andmaintainingindustry best practices for security, compliance, and auditing, including a continuous improvement cycle Handling plannedandsupport activities as per the priority set The Candidate:Required skills/qualifications:At least 2years ofcloud-based Platform/DevOps engineeringexperience Get it done mindset Hands-on experience with Python, Shell, Groovy, YAML scripting Experience with networking concepts, MySQL/Dynamo DB, Lambda, backup & recoverystrategiesand adhering security policies Demonstrated experience with production support in a cloud environment, including outage/incident management Demonstrated collaboration across departments, teams, and partners in different geographic areas Expertisewithanalyzing and troubleshooting large-scale, multi-region application and its infra in a public cloud (Primarily AWS) Experience with cloud deployment and management tools (e.g.Terraform, CDK,CodeDeploy) Experience with containerization using Docker, Kubernetes, orOpen-shift Demonstrated experience with monitoring, logging, and alerting tools (e.g.CloudWatch, New Relic, Grafana, ELK, Chaos Search) Hands-on experience with enabling CI/CD pipeline over codes using Jenkins or Azure or AWS (Code Pipeline) Expert-level troubleshooting skills using application and infra logs Ability toidentifyand enhance the metrics needed for product stability and reliability Experienced in continuouslyidentifyingandimplementing the possible automations Experienceworking with cross-functional teams on the activities till completion Self-driven and ability to leadobjectivesto completion Excellent written andoralcommunication skills across different layers within a company This job description is not designed to contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required. Nothing in this job description restricts management's right to assign or reassign duties and responsibilities at any time. Anthologyis an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer and considers qualified applicants for employment without regard to race, gender, age, color, religion, national origin, marital status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, protected military/veteran status, or any other legally protected factor.