Platform Engineer

Job description:

**💻 Ework Group** 
- founded in 2000, listed on Nasdaq Stockholm, with around 13,000 independent professionals on assignment 
- we are the total talent solutions provider who partners with clients, in both the private and public sector, and professionals to create sustainable talent supply chains.
With a focus on IT/OT, R&D, Engineering and Business Development, we deliver sustainable value through a holistic and independent approach to total talent management.
By providing comprehensive talent solutions, combined with vast industry experience and excellence in execution, we form successful collaborations. We bridge clients and partners & professionals throughout the talent supply chain, for the benefit of individuals, organizations and society.
🔹 For our Client we are looking for **Platform Engineer** 🔹
**✔️Key responsibilities:**
**Platform Engineering**
Contribute as Backstage developer, contributing across the entire stack. Your expertise will be important in solving complex problems at scale for our internal customers. You'll design and implement innovative solutions to enhance the Developer Portal\\'s functionality, ensuring it meets the evolving needs of company.
Focus on ensuring the high availability and performance of the Developer Portal. This maintaining robust CI/CD pipelines, conducting regular system health checks, and swiftly addressing potential issues. Creating and maintaining good documentation.
**Operational Efficiency and Automation**
Improve operational stability through analysis and optimization. Identifying and implementing automation opportunities to enhance efficiency and reduce manual processes. Monitor and optimize system performance and resource utilization, ensuring the platform operates at peak efficiency.
Customer Engagement
Support engineering teams with onboarding and adoption of Developer portal.
**✔️Main job tasks:**
**Platform Development**
* Participate in planning platform capabilities, features, and roadmaps
* Design and contribute to Backstage development across the entire stack
* Solve complex problems on developer platform
* Manage dependencies across platform
**Operational Excellence**
* Maintain high availability and performance of the Developer Portal
* Implement and optimize CI/CD pipelines
* Participate in RCA and incident response
* Identify and implement automation opportunities
* Develop and maintain operational procedures and best practices
**Customer Support and Engagement**
* Support teams with Software Catalog and Template adoption
* Provide support for internal teams for onboarding to developer portal
* Help co-create software template
**Key stakeholders:**
* Product Owner
* Product Manager
* LoB locally and globally
* Digital Products & Software 
- Engineering
* Capability Leads
* Vendors
* External 
- consultants/Freelancers
**Type of communication:**
* Knowledge sharing
* Inspirational
* Informing
* Involving
* Convincing
* Aligning
* Disseminating new ideas and practices
* Network and connection
**Innovation and change:**
Drive and contribute to change management related to new technologies & practices for cloud native software engineering. Inspire and challenge the organization with extensive knowledge of various technologies and how to solve complex software engineering problems and thereby deliver value to the users and the company.
**Geographic responsibility:**
The job is situated in Warsaw, Poland. Work is carried out in close collaboration with local colleagues as well as Danish colleagues. This may imply international travelling ones or twice a year to enhance collaboration.
**✔️Education:**
Minimum BSc in Software Engineering, Computer Science or another relevant field.
**✔️Experience:**
* 5
- years of software development experience
* Experience with building developer portals (ie. Backstage)
* Strong Working Experience in core web technologies: JavaScript/TypeScript for customizing, extending, and contributing to Backstage\\'s core functionality.
* React for customizing and building user interfaces within Backstage.
* YAML/JSON: Knowledge of YAML and JSON is important for configuring and defining various aspects of Backstage, such as service configurations and metadata.
* Demonstrated capability in collaborating with open-source projects
* Experience with containerization and Kubernetes
* Strong Working Experience from large complex back-end systems meaning: Complex back-end system integration/processes, High Performance/Low latency, Large data-sizes, Distributed architectures
* Strong experience with GitHub Actions or similar tools
* In depth understanding and experience with software architecture and cloud architecture implementation
* Accustomed to working with Agile/SCRUM methodology
**✔️Personal skills:**
* Expected to drive initiatives independently.
* Communicates general knowledge and SME knowledge to others in an easy-to-understand and effective manner, often including senior stakeholders.
* Viewed by others as a team player and a role model for peers (positive feedback from peers and stakeholders needed)
* Actively expands and deepens own Subject Matter Expertise area.
* Good listening and communication skills in English
* Generalist mind-set with a strong focus on business objectives
* Curious, driven, self-starting and executing.
* Ability and desire to learn/understand the domain/business and constantly strive to improve this understanding to add value to the business.
* Ability to assume responsibility for both architecture, implementation, DevOps and support 
- whatever is needed to achieve the objectives incl. active collaboration with other development teams when required
**✔️ We offer:**
* B2B agreement
* Transparent working conditions with both Ework and the client
* Current support during our cooperation
* Possibility to work in an international environment
* Collaborative environment in Swedish organizational culture
* Private medical care
* Life insurance
* Multisport
* Teambuilding events
Contact person: monika.kostecka@eworkgroup.com
Client code: HNN01
Do you know someone who would fit this position? Recommend a candidate by sending her/his CV to: polecenia@eworkgroup.com

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