About
Springer Nature provides unified engineering platforms and integrated capabilities that enable product teams to deliver value. Its platforms support hundreds of developers globally and provide capabilities including observability, continuous integration, security, and storage.
Responsibilities
•Build, operate, and maintain core capabilities and components of the Engineering Platform
•Treat the Platform and its components as a product for real customers
•Design and build automation, tooling, and self-service mechanisms to help product teams move faster
•Own and operate platform services end to end, including Kubernetes clusters, automation and tooling, CI/CD, and observability systems
•Provide technical support and consultancy to product teams and feed their learnings into the product roadmap
•Take an active role in the team, understand the business value delivered, and develop an understanding of customers, their needs, the Engineering Platform, and key strategies
•Learn about Springer Nature's software development lifecycle and the technologies and tools used by the team
•Participate in team ceremonies and day-to-day work
•Create a development plan with the line manager to expand skills and knowledge
•Contribute to platform improvements and select appropriate technology solutions
•Understand and discuss business requirements with stakeholders and product owners
•Learn about security, compliance, and accessibility risks and how to mitigate them
•Manage container-based runtime platforms
•Participate in architectural discussions
•Lead major initiatives and improve system performance and reliability
•Mitigate risks in shipped products and shape the evolution of the Engineering Platform
•Support and enable delivery through good practices
•Participate in user research when applicable
•Provide actionable feedback to team members and foster a culture of proactive feedback
•Help grow the internal culture through technical share-backs and 10% time
Requirements
•Experience operating, automating, and maintaining cloud infrastructure in AWS or GCP, including contributing to system architecture and design
•Expertise in at least one of storage, routing, cloud networking, org policy definition and automation, or IAM
•Programming experience with Golang, Python, JVM-based languages, or similar modern languages
•Experience with general automation patterns and version control
•Experience managing Kubernetes deployments and writing Kubernetes operators or controllers
•Experience participating in projects from design to production
•Experience working in multidisciplinary teams focused on shared outcomes within the software delivery lifecycle
Nice to have
•Code interfacing with the Kubernetes API, such as operators, controllers, or add-ons
•Go application development and idiomatic Go practices
•Experience with Kubernetes, Kubevela, GKE, EKS, Grafana LGTM stack, Sentry, Open Telemetry, Concourse, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Ansible, Postgres, or Mongo
•Experience building APIs and exposing components programmatically for people and machines
Conditions
No conditions stated in the posting.
