Senior enterprise technology engineer
Blueprint Power
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You will work with
Integration platform team. This is a multidisciplinary team of authorities with a range of skills including UX, UI, Integration domain, Architects, Software, Platform, Delivery, Product & Customer enablement. You will work with a wide variety of stakeholders including technology leaders, business facing product team and their leadership and other senior customers.
Let me tell you about the role
This role is part of our Digital Core team that are responsible for building and operating IT Platforms that are used across bp by the business facing teams.
Specifically, this role is responsible for building, enhancing and innovating for Integration Platform (iPaaS) that is built on top of a plethora of technology components, handled services from cloud platform vendors (AWS and Azure) and cloud-based infrastructure. Some examples of technology components in use include open-source software such as Apache Camel, Apache Karavan, Open Policy Agent (OPA), Cloud services include API Management (APIM), Messaging and Event Streaming Services among many others. Infrastructure elements include Kubernetes clusters (AKS, EKS).
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will own the platform engineering aspects of building and operating Integration Platform as a Service (iPaaS). You will be providing technology and platform specialist capability to the team. Primary activities will be in the development, customization, testing and support of iPaas, as well as contribution to technical designs.!
As a platform Engineer, you will focus on site reliability engineering and dev-sec-ops supporting specific business requirements or enabling functions. Platform Engineers will focus on underpinning or enabling technology platforms with a lens on volume, capacity, performance, stability, integrity and high availability. You are expected to adopt AI technologies to automate operations and SRE.
What you will deliver
- Responsible for development, testing and operation for Integration platforms.
- Focus on scalability, hands-on coding or customization contribution, adherence to platform engineering standard methodologies (e.g. technical design, design review, unit testing, monitoring & alerting, and technical documentation).!
- Focus on testing and deployment of software or platforms via CI/CD pipeline that meet privacy and compliance requirements, and that follows site reliability engineering standard processes.
- Establish Observability to the Integration platforms and integrations.
- Support a fast and agile product release while maintaining high service reliability following site-reliability engineering best practices: on-call rotations for services they maintain, responsible for defining and maintaining SLAs. Design, build, deploy and maintain infrastructure as code. Containerizes server deployments
- Chip in to ideas for service automation and process simplification
- Manage a team of SRE engineers promoting a culture of agility, continuous improvement and adopt opportunities provided through increased automation.
- Maximise value from current applications and emerging technologies showing technical thought leadership in their business area across a wide range of technologies.
- Works with users and business analysts to understand requirements.
- Collaborates with peers across I&E teams and mentors more junior engineers
What you will need to be successful (experience and qualifications)
Technical skills we need from you
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Computer Information Systems or equivalent work experience
- Years of experience: 12+ years, with a minimum of 8 years of relevant experience.
- Validated experience and deep skill in one or more of SRE technologies, and tools like Terraform/Bicep, Grafana/Prometheus, Kibana/ELK…. etc.
- Willingness and ability to learn, to become skilled in at least one more cloud-native (AWS and Azure) integration solutions on top of your existing skillset
- Deep understanding of the Interface development lifecycle, automated unit and functional testing, CI/CD Azure DevOps and telemetry
- Demonstrated understanding of modern technologies like Cloud native, containers, serverless
- Platform Security remediation and guardrails using WIZ, Check Marx/Veracode integration with pipelines.
- Strong experience in open-source technologies and able to adopt AI assisted operations.
- Strong experience in Kubernetes, API Gateways, Messaging brokers like Kafka, ASB…etc.
- Strong inclusive leadership and people management
- Stakeholder Management
- Embrace a culture of continuous improvement
Infrastructure skills
- Expert in using cloud, infrastructure services using Amazon Web Services or Microsoft Azure
- Deep appreciation in understanding of using core cloud application infrastructure services including identity platforms, networking, storage, databases, containers, and serverless
- Monitoring and telemetry tools like Grafana, Open Telemetry
Database skills
- Competent knowledge of databases, such as relational, graph, document, and key-value
- Master ability in data modeling and database design
- Master ability in SQL
Skills that set you apart
- Prior experience of having built and operated platforms at scale
- Prior experience of having built and operated Kubernetes clusters at scale
- Passion for technology, driven by purpose, working as a missionary (not mercenary)
- Possess a passion for mentoring and coaching engineers in both technical and soft skills
- AI assisted DevOps
- You have a product-centric approach that you use to understand business needs. You have the technical and interpersonal skills to collaboratively design scalable systems and engineering solutions that meet those needs
- You employ strong senses of empathy and curiosity to build the best possible experiences for the users of your products!
About bp
Our purpose is to deliver energy to the world, today and tomorrow. For over 100 years, bp has focused on discovering, developing, and producing oil and gas in the nations where we operate. We are one of the few companies globally that can provide governments and customers with an integrated energy offering. Delivering our strategy sustainably is fundamental to achieving our ambition to be a net zero company by 2050 or sooner!
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