Senior Platform Engineer

ACCOUNTABILITIES

• Responsible for building and maintaining performant, scalable, secure, resilient, and compliant engineering platform capabilities.

• Develop and implement platform capabilities based on platform architecture roadmap.

• Contribute to platform architecture roadmap, in collaboration with platform manager, platform owner, product manager, and platform architecture leads.

• Adopt engineering governance structures and best practices for platforms.

• Adopt platform engineering execution lifecycle (planning / scheduling / building / testing / deploying / documenting), and monitor progress to ensure that engineering activities are completed on time, on budget, and with proper engineering practices and quality processes.

• Help identify new technology platform capabilities for best fit purpose, and outline options for cost effective, incremental, and resilient implementation approach.

• Contribute to platform system demos in collaboration with product management leads, to communicate progress and value of FTP Infrastructure platform capabilities being built.

• Support level 3 engineering activities for platforms.

• Provision, manage and maintain the software infrastructure that supports platforms.

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Statistics, and/or Management Information Systems from an accredited university or equivalent experience.

• 3+ years of more experience with Agile methods / methodologies, and leading SCRUM / Lean / Kanban teams.

• 5+ years or more of relevant professional experience as a technology engineer.

• Proven track record of getting things done in complex organizations.

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Ability to work in an agile and rapid changing environment with high quality deliverables.

• Demonstrated presentation, and communication skills.

• Ability to think outside the box for innovative engineering capabilities.

• Knowledge of information management practices, regulatory requirements and global data privacy laws related to the pharmaceutical industry. 

• Knowledge of IT Service Management, Service Operations, and Service Release (ITIL v4 and ITSM).

• Proven experience of DevOps CI/CD technologies and lifecycle.

• Demonstrated knowledge of Cloud IaaS and PaaS technology environments (AWS and Azure preferred).

• Demonstrated experience and knowledge of micro-services concepts, API integration enablement, container technologies and services (Kubernetes based preferred).

• 7+ years of experience deploying, optmizing, and supporting(L3 level)database infrastructure environments across on premises and public Cloud. 

• 7+ years’ experience with Oracle databases resilient architecture, deployment lifecycle, administration, backup / restore, monitoring, and optimization on Windows and Linux OS platforms.

• 5+ years of experience using public cloud infrastructure (AWS or Azure required) and related native databases (i.e. MySQL, Aurora, DynamoDB, PostgresSQL, etc.)

• Proven experience with platform engineering automation lifecycle, leveraging infrastructure as code, configuration management, orchestration, modern patterns, APIs, and site reliability engineering concepts.