Senior Engineer

College Board – Technology – Platform Engineering

100% Remote, working core EST hours

About the Team

The Platform Engineering team at College Board builds solutions to help reimagine and elevate our engineering practices around cloud infrastructure, architecture, networking, CI/CD, IaC, and the developer experience. We design, build and operationalize the platforms that are core to our development environment within our growing AWS ecosystem. Our team is comprised of approximately ten engineers with a unique blend of skills and experiences that foster a collaborative working environment where each individual member contributes to the success of the team. We learn and we teach. We are creative and value the merit of ideas.

About the Opportunity

As Senior Engineer on our Platform Engineering team, you are an idea-generator, a catalyst, and a collaborator. You understand cloud software delivery, tools, and processes that empower efficient and resilient delivery that adheres to top-notch development practices. You thrive in an environment with a strong mix of creativity and productivity. You are technologically curious and seek out opportunities to research emerging technologies and trends, standards, and products. Your eagerness and vision enable you to create and learn complex solutions. Your excellent communication and mentoring skills allow you to effectively articulate solutions to the team while bringing them up to speed, enabling all to make healthy contributions.

In this role, you will:

Design & Implementation (70%)

• Build solutions using the best practices of Agile, CI/CD, and DevOps

• Continuously develop the skills required to work as part of the agile team in a poly-skilled development environment

• Apply your subject matter expertise in current technological capabilities such as cloud networking, API integrations, infrastructure resiliency, and cloud design

• Write code to automate the infrastructure lifecycle, create and support internal tools utilizing IaC, and be able to use CLIs

• Collaborate to define transformation patterns from a vertical application with service dependencies to a cloud capability

• Partner with domain SMEs (Delivery Team Software Engineers, Security, Infrastructure, Network, Observability and Operations) to analyze the features and capabilities 

• Work with technology leaders to understand business objectives and align architectures and cloud product offerings with those objectives

• Contribute to the development and growth of the Cloud Engineering Program, through thought leadership, design and implementation of tools and processes

• Participate in the Enterprise Architecture Review process

Strategy & Communication (20%)

• Implement cloud-first architectural solutions and best practices

• Contribute to technology strategy and planning, conducting research on emerging technologies in support of systems development efforts and recommending technologies that will increase cost effectiveness and systems flexibility

• Participate in agile scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Grooming, Daily SCRUM, Demo, Retro) and contribute to team deliverables

• Participate in peer reviews of software engineering artifacts

• Assist in the identification and resolution of production and production-like issues

Team Coordination (10%)

• Mentor team members by designing and developing training materials to communicate the current and future infrastructure architecture

• Lead technical efforts and mentor technical staff in the development and usage of technology architectures and solutions with a primary focus on DNS, Disaster Recovery and Resiliency

About You

You have:

• 5+ years of experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD framework, immutable infrastructure, automation, orchestration, and other modern DevOps patterns

• Technical knowledge of Cloud Computing, DevOps, and Microservices

• Strong knowledge and experience with distributed cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred)

• Experience working with AWS resources such as Lambda, SNS, SQS, S3, Step Functions, EC2, ECS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, DynamoDB is a plus

• Experience building event-driven Cloud-based serverless applications

• Coding/scripting experience with Python, JavaScript, React.js, Node.js or Java

• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with an ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language

• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain good customer working relationships

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