Application Platform Engineer
1 month ago
ABOUT THE COMPANY
The Rainforest Alliance is a growing network of people who are inspired and committed to working together to achieve our mission of conserving biodiversity and ensuring sustainable livelihoods. Through creative, pragmatic collaboration, we aim to rebalance the planet by building strong forests and healthy communities around the world.
JOB SUMMARY
Within Rainforest Alliance the Platform Operations team enables other development teams through shared services, tooling, automation, and platform support. The continued security and stability of our critical IT systems require proactive infrastructure maintenance. The Platform Operations team monitors production, troubleshoots and fixes issues, architects and maintains the underlying infrastructure and automates deployments.Application Platform Engineers, in the DevOps Engineer role within Platform Ops, support a range of applications and solutions to support both partners and Rainforest Alliance employees. They need to work well as a team, and with the DevOps teams, accurately describing incoming problems and then translating their technical answers into customer-friendly responses. Infrastructure engineers work with a broad range of infrastructure products, operating systems, and applications, most importantly Azure, Terraform and Docker and use Infrastructure as code. They provide maintenance and support for moderately to highly complex products while performing daily tasks on the infrastructure like patching, deployments and other upgrades.Qualifications: A strong knowledge of Azure IaaSAble to design, develop and maintain scalable Azure based solutionsAble to design, develop and maintain the infrastructure for solutions on the Kubernetes (AKS) platformSecure by design and NFR are properly ascertainedMinimum 4 years of relevant work experience as Infrastructural engineer or a similar positionExcellent analytical problem-solving skills, diagnostic skills and ability to prioritize own workWell-developed interpersonal skills and relevant competencesExcellent English written and oral communication skillsExperienced, structured, pragmatic Infrastructure engineer with good knowledge of:Cloud computing (Azure)Deployment (Docker / Terraform/AKS)Linux system administrationScripting (Bash/Python)Firewall technologyCI/CD (Azure devops)Monitoring (Azure/Grafana/ Prometheus)Security measuresProgramming with databases: SQL Server, Postgress and MySQLAtlassian suite (Jira/Confluence/Bitbucket)At least one programming language: PHP, C# or JavaWeb based languages: JavaScript, CSS, HTML
RESPONSIBILITIES
The Rainforest Alliance’s Core Values are Impact, Change, Collaboration, Openness and Trust and as such they form the basis of the behaviours we demonstrate;Actively leads resolution of production support issues, that could be in the process, middleware, OS and/or database;Is responsible for the deployment and maintenance of resources;Is responsible for configuration management of the different environments for each of the platforms;Is responsible for the design, implementation and maintenance of secure network infrastructure;Builds deployment scripts & responsible for the deployment of releases to the different environments and ensures that it meets the customers’ expectations;Implements, maintains and actively monitors the servers, virtual machines, applications and software backups, performs restores if needed, performs server and security audits including necessary fixes andProactively identifies and addresses potential improvements in the Plf Ops way of working , the competencies needed, tooling used, information available, and the behavior patterns observed.
REQUIRED SKILLS
Linux, Relational databases (SQL), Collaboration, JavaScript, Interpersonal communication, Problem solving
REQUIRED EDUCATION
Bachelor's degree
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