Specialist Platform Engineer - Contact

SUMMARY:
Specialist Platform Engineer

POSITION INFO:

Our Client a global tech firm is seeking a Specialist Platform Engineer to join their team in Sandton on a contract basis. They offer stability, growth, attractive rates and a great working environment.

Description

Apply platform engineering expertise, critical thinking, design thinking and problem solving skills in an agile team environment to produce well-organized, optimized and documented source code that successfully delivers platform features and components of the service and solves complex technical problems with high quality solutions.

Requirements

1. Positively contribute to, define and implement the development/engineering lifecycle (end to end) and lead lifecycle improvements over successive releases
2. Produce simple, extensible, and maintainable features with very few defects. Continually works to find and fix defects
3. Leverage platform (service design and code) and engineering technical expertise to proactively identify risks and prevent defects
4. Identify patterns that reveal errors and unanticipated problems, and influence telemetry analytics design decisions
5. Identify and Apply metrics to drive the quality and stability of code
6. Ensure consistent, usable, forward-looking, maintainable test infrastructure
7. Apply object orientated design in development and draw from a large base of design patterns
8. Uphold our technical principles of: self-service, scalability, re-usability, resilience & stability in all development practices and deliver feature sets that sustainably deliver on these principles
9. Apply knowledge and expertise in User / Customer experience to deliver a stable user experience in all design and development that is simple, elegant, and useful
10. Proactively identify development practices that work well & leverage and improve these for future solution design and deployment
11. Document feature set and constituent design information to produce solution design blueprints and validation collateral
12. Based on engineering & platform expertise and a sound knowledge of the business & customer requirements consistently provide key ideas for the enhancement & optimization of the platform
13. Develop & document complete designs and implement testing processes that identify and eradicate platform or service-wide problems / improve on platform performance
14. Demonstrate a strong commitment to the quality and ongoing quality assurance of the product/service's in use, and take appropriate action
15. Ensure alignment to platform and service release plans for effective deployment of solution designs Drive and implement design review processes & practices with the team & participate & positively contribute to design reviews for the feature area led by others
16. Apply expertise in engineering and available technologies to enable effective review processes
17. Cascade review lessons learnt for the benefit of the broader team
18. Enable problem resolution across technical teams, apply and or facilitate root cause analysis, deeply understand the root causes of issues and find ways to resolve them (sustainably)
19. Continuously review and find ways to optimize team processes & improve engineering quality, productivity, and team responsiveness to feedback and changing priorities
20. Optimize, refactors and reuse components to improve performance and maintainability - ensuring maximum efficiency, effectiveness, and return on investment
21. Take accountability for maintaining platform standards and best practices, and drive adoption across multiple service teams
22. Demonstrate knowledge of, identify and find required data for the ongoing monitoring & improvement of the platform feature area
23. Proactively monitor the performance of the platform features & solutions
24. Translate monitoring data into clearly articulated descriptions of opportunities & defects, their impact to the customer scenario and to the product or service as a whole, and the relevance to product and service targets (within scope of the job)
25. Cascade and communicate these insights across the team to influence platform decision making Leverage production performance monitoring and customer data to make feature area technical design and implementation decisions
26. Synthesize data from multiple sources and present and define concise, impactful conclusions that influence feature teams to solve defects and meet quality targets Accountability: Financial & Cost Optimization, Risk and Governance
27. Understand the platform cost model and the optimal cost : serve of the platform, use this understanding to drive the platform efficiency and effectiveness objectives
28. Participate in incident management and and DR activity - applying critical thinking, problem solving & technical expertise to get to the bottom of major incidents
29. Apply Group risk (e.g. Architecture, development, change and release etc.), governance, compliance and regulatory standards and frameworks
30. Proactively identify technical risks and mitigate these (pre, during and post release)
31. Update / Design all feature documentation aligned to the organization technical standards and risk / governance frameworks Accountability: People
32. Proactively and effectively (time and quality) collaborate and drive collaboration on features across feature team (e.g. managing dependencies & interdependencies, conflict resolution, information & best practice sharing, problem reso

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