Senior Platform Engineer (DevSecOps)

We are

At Synechron, we believe in the power of digital to transform businesses for the better. Our global consulting firm combines creativity and innovative technology to deliver industry-leading digital solutions. Synechron’s progressive technologies and optimization strategies span end-to-end Artificial Intelligence, Consulting, Digital, Cloud & DevOps, Data, and Software Engineering, servicing an array of noteworthy financial services and technology firms. Through research and development initiatives in our FinLabs we develop solutions for modernization, from Artificial Intelligence and Blockchain to Data Science models, Digital Underwriting, mobile-first applications and more. Over the last 20+ years, our company has been honored with multiple employer awards, recognizing our commitment to our talented teams. With top clients to boast about, Synechron has a global workforce of 14,000+, and has 55 offices in 20 countries within key global markets.

Our challenge

We’re looking for a Senior Platform Engineer (DevSecOps) to come help us automate everything, enable our developer teammates, and create and support world-class platforms, and implement modern practical security. This job requires expertise in Kubernetes, IaC, and Security as relates to both.

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be an integral member of the Platform Engineering team, helping the organization transform into a truly modern cloud-native mode of operation. The goal of the Platform Engineering (PE) team is to reduce friction in the delivery process and improve developer experience. Technical prowess, pragmatic strategic understanding, and ability to make compromises working with the stakeholders are the 3 pillars of this job. The Senior Platform Engineer will work closely with the Sr Manager of Platform Engineering, Platform Tech Lead, and Platform Architect to ensure sound technical direction. The Senior Platform Engineer will also work with the Technical Product Owner on their Agile Platform Engineering team to facilitate delivering the most critical platform features needed for the Product Development Teams.

The Senior Platform Engineer will be expected to provide guidance on DevOps practices and tools and Azure cloud resources.

Additional Information* 

The base salary for this position will vary based on geography and other factors. In accordance with law, the base salary for this role if filled within Charlotte, NC/Piscataway, NJ/Lake Mary, FL is $115k - $125k/year & benefits (see below).

The Role

Responsibilities:

• Apply a proactive approach toward tasks and communication

• Embrace and evangelize automation, infrastructure as code, policy as code, and developer enablement

• Lead technical implementations leveraging the team architect

• Be a foreperson on the team and a strong presence in collaboration with other teams and leadership.

• Drive forensic troubleshooting and analysis of automation and platform consistency issues

• Proactively ensure the highest levels of system, resource, and infrastructure availability and performance optimization

• Evangelize cloud-native practices and methodologies to delivery teams

• Provide subject matter expertise for all aspects of our technology stack

• Infrastructure Automation Via Terraform

• Azure DevOps Pipelines

• Kubernetes / AKS / EKS

• CI/CD Patterns

• Participation in an on-call rotation

Requirements:

You are:

• 10+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Systems Engineering, Cloud-Native Engineering, DevOps Engineering or Advocacy role

• Expertise with containers and Kubernetes

• Expertise with container security and Kubernetes security

• Experience with opensource security tools

• Experience remediating security vulnerabilities and responding to CVE reported issues

• Experience debugging false positive security reporting

• Experience working on an Agile team using Agile development methodologies

• Experience staying on the forefront of security and advocating best practices to the team and their customers.

• Strong Scripting Experience

• Experience in writing security tests and validations

• Expertise in writing Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code techniques

• Expertise in managing multiple code bases in Gi