**Senior Platform Engineer**
**Lead I - DevOps Engineering
**Who we are**:
Born digital, UST transforms lives through the power of technology. We walk alongside our clients and partners, embedding innovation and agility into everything they do. We help them create transformative experiences and human-centered solutions for a better world.
UST is a mission-driven group of over 39,000+ practical problem solvers and creative thinkers in over 30+ countries. Our entrepreneurial teams are empowered to innovate, act nimbly, and create a lasting and sustainable impact for our clients, their customers, and the communities in which we live.
With us, you'll create a boundless impact that transforms your career—and the lives of people across the world.
**You Are**:
UST Mexico is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to come help us automate everything, enable our developer teammates, and create and support world-class platforms. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will be an integral member of the Platform Engineering team, helping the organization transform into a truly modern cloud-native mode of operation. The goal of the Platform Engineering (PE) team is to reduce friction in the delivery process and improve developer experience. Technical prowess, pragmatic strategic understanding, and ability to make compromises working with the stakeholders are the 3 pillars of this job. The Senior Platform Engineer will be working closely with the Sr Manager of Platform Engineering, Platform Tech Lead, Platform Architect, and Technical Product Owner (TPO) to ensure sound technical direction. The Senior Platform Engineer will also work with the Technical Product Owner on their Agile Platform Engineering team to facilitate delivering the most critical platform features needed for the Product Development Teams.
**The Opportunity**:
- The Senior Platform Engineer will be expected to provide guidance on DevOps practices and tools as well as Azure cloud resources.
- Mentor teammates and serve as an escalation point for Platform Engineer I's, and II's.
- Embrace the DevOps culture and be a positive force for the team
- Contribute to the strategic planning and direction for the automation and governance platforms
- Embrace and evangelize automation, infrastructure as code, policy as code, and developer enablement
- Lead technical implementations leveraging the team architect
- Be a foreperson on the team and have a strong presence in collaboration with other teams and leadership.
- Represent platform capabilities at delivery ceremonies (for example: Architecture Review Board (ARB) and Change Approval Board (CAB))
- Drive forensic troubleshooting and analysis of automation and platform consistency issues
- Proactively ensure the highest levels of systems, resources, and infrastructure availability and performance optimization
- Evangelize cloud-native practices and methodologies to delivery teams
- Foster the team's growth through hiring, onboarding, and mentoring
- Participation in an on-call rotation
This position description identifies the responsibilities and tasks typically associated with the performance of the position. Other relevant essential functions may be required.
**What you need**:
- Infrastructure Automation Via Terraform
- Azure DevOps Pipelines
- Kubernetes / AKS / EKS
- CI/CD Patterns Experience
- 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Software Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering, Systems Engineering, Cloud-Native Engineering, DevOps Engineering, or Advocacy role
- Expertise with containers and container orchestration, particularly Azure Kubernetes Service (AKS)
- Expertise in writing production code with an industry-standard programming language using Agile methodologies.
- Strong Scripting Experience
- Expertise in practicing Infrastructure as Code and Configuration as Code techniques
- Expertise in managing multiple code bases in Git
- Expertise in creating Continuous Integration builds and deployment automation, for example, CI/CD Pipelines
- Expertise working with cross-functional teams to provide DevOps-inspired solutions
- University Degree in a computing-related field or equivalent experience
- Expertise with dotnet, PowerShell, and PowerShell Desired State Configuration
- Bachelor's degree in a computing-related field Microsoft Azure or AWS Certifications
**What we believe**:
We're proud to embrace the same values that have shaped UST since the beginning. Since day one, we've been building enduring relationships and a culture of integrity. And today, it's those same values that are inspiring us to encourage innovation from everyone, to champion diversity and inclusion, and to place people at the center of everything we do.
**Humility**:
We will listen, learn, be empathetic and help selflessly in our interactions with everyone.
**Humanity**:
Through business, we will better the lives of those less fortunate than ourselves.
**Integrity**:
We honor our commitments and
