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Senior Platform Engineer (Tooling)

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United Kingdom
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The Senior Platform Engineer will build and improve software development tooling, collaborating with teams to enhance developer experience and application delivery. Responsibilities include designing tools, supporting users, maintaining frameworks, overseeing CI/CD pipelines, and monitoring services in a Kubernetes environment.
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CHEP helps move more goods to more people, in more places than any other organization on earth via our 347 million pallets, crates and containers. We employ approximately 13,000 people and operate in 60 countries. Through our pioneering and sustainable share-and-reuse business model, the world’s biggest brands trust us to help them transport their goods more efficiently, safely and with less environmental impact. 
What does that mean for you? You’ll join an international organization big enough to take you anywhere, and small enough to get you there sooner. You’ll help change how goods get to market and contribute to global sustainability. You’ll be empowered to bring your authentic self to work and be surrounded by diverse and driven professionals. And you can maximize your work-life balance and flexibility through our Hybrid Work Model.

Job Description

Position Purpose 

This position focuses on building the platform development tooling (DSLs, application descriptors, development libraries and APIs, REPLs, Terminal Applications such as CLIs , and other system level tools ) that will enable software development teams to build applications in a way that allows them to deliver at speed with constant high velocity and significant flexibility.

This role is positioned within the Cloud Engineering team. This platform is a cloud-centric platform(s) that supports IoT, Customer Solution Delivery, Data Science Environments and Software Delivery, as well as related tools and environments (file storage, databases, tensorflow, data streaming, eventing, machine learning and big data frameworks, notebook technologies, and container orchestration tooling).

 

Key Accountabilities 

 

  • Design, develop, release and operate bespoke software tools, DSLs, parsers,  libraries, frameworks, and services, through development in system languages such as Go, C, C++, Rust etc which are used by application software development teams and software operations teams. Currently the majority of this code is written in Go. 
  • Engage with all development teams, to improve and extend the existing tooling. The purpose is to enable them to scale, and focus on feature development, by providing a common technical platform / infrastructure, and improving developer experience. 
  • Design new tools and improve/extend existing ones by engaging with key  
  • stakeholders and team leads. 
  • Support and train tool users in application development and software operations  teams. 
  • Responsible for learning, operating, evolving, contributing to, and maintaining Brambles Digital bespoke frameworks that support the BRIX platform (such as specific data pipes and bespoke terminal applications and REPLs). 
  • Responsible for rigorous testing of tools, libraries, frameworks, and services  robustness and scalability. 
  • Will contribute to data science / engineering teams discussions, providing insight as needed on other team member’s current approaches and methods as well as on tools and data repositories. 
  • Liaise with Brambles Digital Cloud Engineering / BRIX digital operations, in order to understand current software operation and operation tooling. 
  • Build and maintain Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment pipelines used in the release process of bespoke software tools, DSLs, parsers, libraries, frameworks, and services. 
  • Operate and monitor software services running in a Kubernetes environment, and natively on AWS relevant to bespoke software tools, DSLs, parsers, libraries,  frameworks, and services. 
  • Responsible for contributing to capability building of the team, including researching and staying up-to-date on best practices e.g. Platform Engineering. 
  • Create user documentation, troubleshooting guides, FAQs for software tools, and services. 

 

Qualifications 

 

Essential  

  • BS degree in Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Statistics, Physics, or similar formal training or equivalent. 

Desirable 

  • Experience with building system level tools used to accelerate the software development teams. 

 

Experience 

  • + 5 years relevant experience in developing software development tooling that interacts and runs with the cloud.
  • Experience analysing the fundamental processes of enterprise application development teams and seeing how best to roll out development tools to support long term acceleration of output of these teams. Experience building these kind of tools that allow enterprise application development teams as a result to concentrate on business logic and end users, with their coding efforts; and with significant less cognitive load. 
  • Experience with Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment.  
  • Comfortable coding and working in a polyglot computer language environment  (Python, Go, Julia etc.). 
  •  Experience with Amazon Web Services (S3, EKS, ECR, EMR, etc.). 
  •  Experience with containers and orchestration (e.g. Docker, Kubernetes). 
  •  Experience with Git Ops style automation. 
  •  Experience with *ix (e.g, Linux, BSD, etc.) tooling and scripting. 
  •  Participated in projects that are based on data science methodologies, and/or  physical experiments, or statistical analysis – especially in a software engineering capacity.

Remote Type

Hybrid Remote

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer, and we are committed to developing a diverse workforce in which everyone is treated fairly, with respect, and has the opportunity to contribute to business success while realizing his or her potential. This means harnessing the unique skills and experience that each individual brings and we do not discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of race, color, sex, age, national origin, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, status as a veteran, and basis of disability or any other federal, state, or local protected class.

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Top Skills

C
C++
Go
Python
Rust

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