Senior Development Platform Operations Engineer

Job Summary

We are looking for a highly motivated Development Platform Operations Engineer to join the Environment Management & FinOps team.

This is a hands-on technical role focused on operational excellence, automation, cloud infrastructure, monitoring, FinOps, and development environment administration.

Responsibilities

Environment Operations

• Operate and maintain shared development and test environments.
• Ensure environments are healthy, available, and ready before each regional business day.
• Manage the complete lifecycle of development environments, including provisioning, maintenance, upgrades, and decommissioning.
• Support a global follow-the-sun operating model across APAC, EMEA, and the Americas.
• Coordinate planned maintenance activities while minimizing disruption to engineering teams.

Cloud & Infrastructure Operations

Operate and maintain cloud-native development platforms and supporting infrastructure across:

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Microsoft Azure
• Amazon Web Services (AWS)
• Internal Developer Platform (Kubernetes-based)
• Virtual Machines
• Windows and Linux servers
• On-premises infrastructure
• Hyper-V environments
• Shared Engineering Services

Ensure the platform remains secure, scalable, resilient, and highly available.

Monitoring & Operational Support

• Continuously monitor infrastructure health and availability.
• Monitor overnight builds, deployments, automated jobs, and platform services.
• Investigate alerts and proactively resolve issues before they impact engineering teams.
• Perform incident response, troubleshooting, and root cause analysis.
• Participate in operational support and on-call rotations.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, and observability across the platform.

Development Platform Administration

Administer and support the organizations shared development platforms and engineering services, including:

• Jenkins
• GitLab
• Build agents
• Deployment agents
• Performance testing infrastructure
• Shared development services

Responsibilities include platform administration, troubleshooting, performance optimization, lifecycle management, and supporting engineering teams with reliable and secure development environments.

Access & Environment Administration

Manage user access and permissions across development platforms, including:

• Okta
• Google Cloud Platform (IAM)
• Shared cloud resources
• Internal development platforms

Support access requests, permission reviews, and access governance while maintaining security best practices.

Infrastructure Maintenance

• Apply operating system and infrastructure patches.
• Maintain certificates, secrets, and platform configurations.
• Perform platform upgrades and lifecycle maintenance.
• Coordinate maintenance windows.
• Support vulnerability remediation.
• Ensure environments remain secure and compliant with organizational standards.

FinOps & Capacity Management

Support cloud cost optimization initiatives by:

• Monitoring cloud spend across development environments.
• Identifying unused or underutilized resources.
• Recommending cost optimization opportunities.
• Monitoring infrastructure utilization and capacity trends.
• Helping engineering teams optimize resource consumption.

Automation & Continuous Improvement

Develop and maintain automation for:

• Environment provisioning
• Environment cleanup
• Operational maintenance
• Health verification
• Monitoring
• Routine operational tasks
• Infrastructure lifecycle management

Continuously identify opportunities to eliminate manual work through automation and standardization.

Reporting & Governance

Produce and maintain operational reporting covering:

• Environment availability
• SLA compliance
• Incident trends
• Environment health
• Capacity utilization
• Cloud costs
• Operational KPIs

Contribute to governance by ensuring environments are properly documented, monitored, maintained, and aligned with operational standards

Why we should decide on you

• Bachelors or Masters degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Several years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, Cloud Operations, Infrastructure Engineering, or a similar role.
• Experience supporting business-critical development platforms and cloud infrastructure.

Technical Skills

Cloud & Infrastructure

• Google Cloud Platform (preferred), Microsoft Azure and/or AWS.
• Kubernetes administration and operations.
• Virtual Machines (Windows & Linux).
• Docker and container technologies.
• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred).

Operating Systems

• Linux administration.
• Windows Server administration.

Automation & Scripting

• PowerShell
• Bash
• Python

CI/CD & Development Platforms

• GitLab / BitBucket
• Git
• CI/CD concepts

Monitoring & Observability

Experience with one or more of:

• Prometheus
• Grafana
• OpenTelemetry
• ELK / OpenSearch
• Loki
• Cloud-native monitoring solutions

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