What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Platform/DevOps Engineer position at koddi?
About Koddi
We are a global technology company with software and services that help top digital marketplaces effectively monetize their first-party audiences through industry-leading commerce media technology and strategy. Our enterprise platforms leverage first-party data to drive marketplace revenue and profit by improving user experience and target shoppers throughout the purchase path. Koddi’s platforms enable any advertiser, any marketplace, in any industry to increase awareness, generate demand, and drive revenue. We are committed to driving innovation and growth in the commerce media space.
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Job Summary
Passionate about development in leading technologies? Looking to become a major player on a diverse team? Want to make a big impact on an engineer-driven roadmap in your next career adventure? Koddi Engineers drive innovation by embracing challenges and deploying emerging technologies to solve complex problems in software development.
Koddi is looking for a Senior Platform/DevOps engineer focused on delivery. You’ll design and operate cloud infrastructure, partner with product and engineering, and keep work moving by turning ambiguity into clear milestones and crisp updates.
What You’ll Do
- Design, implement, and maintain scalable, secure, and reliable cloud infrastructure for our SaaS platform
- Create and maintain daily/weekly milestones with partners; drive progress and surface risks with concise written updates.
- Run lightweight standups or async check-ins; track status in Jira with clear acceptance criteria.
- Collaborate with software engineering teams to ensure smooth deployment and operation of services
- Maintain critical applications on cloud-native microservices architecture
- Implement automation, effective monitoring, and infrastructure-as-code
- Manage our continuous integration and delivery pipeline to maximize efficiency
- Iterate on best practices to increase the quality and velocity of deployments
- Ensure compliance with security best practices and industry standards
- Participate in 24/7 on-call rotations for mission-critical systems
- Identify infrastructure problems before they happen and implement solutions that detect and prevent outages
- Secure, scale, and manage Linux (and possibly Windows) environments
- Continuously evaluate existing systems against industry standards and make recommendations for improvement
- Work collaboratively with multiple agile teams to help deliver end-to-end products and features, seeing them through from conception to delivery
- Own delivery for assigned initiatives (scope as DRI), ensuring timelines align with goals.
- Contribute inputs to cross-functional plans by mapping dependencies and milestones.
- Own core operational responsibilities (incident response, patching, reliability tasks).
Who You Are
- 5 years experience in a DevOps/Platform role
- Strong experience with the following cloud technologies:
- Cloud computing, including auto-scaling and load balancing (EC2, VMs, etc.)
- Cloud storage (S3, BLOB, etc.)
- Container services (ECS, etc.), Kubernetes services (EKS, etc.)
- IAM
- VPCs
- Exceptional communicator: concise, audience-aware updates from exec summary to deep-dive.
- Proven habit of turning ambiguous work into milestone plans with clear owners/dates.
- Experience running daily stand-ups or async status(tickets, acceptance criteria, dependencies).
- Coaching/coordination without authority: can unblock others with hands-on guidance.
- Understanding of system administration in Linux (and possibly Windows) environments
- Proficiency with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Datadog, PagerDuty, CloudWatch)
- Proficiency with Bash and Python
- Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code (e.g., Terraform, Cloudformation)
- Experience with Version Control Software (Git preferred)
- Experience implementing CI/CD (e.g., GitHub Actions, Jenkins, TravisCI)
- Experience with configuration management tools (e.g. Ansible, Chef)
- Solid understanding of networking concepts (e.g., VPC, subnetting, routing, etc.)