Engineer of Cloud Platform Engineering

Job Description

Our culture is characterized by collaboration, inclusivity, and a commitment to continuous learning, fostering an environment where diverse perspectives lead to groundbreaking solutions. Team members are empowered to share ideas and experiment across teams in all aspects of the business, fostering innovation and creativity. Leading edge technologies and inclusive practices drive both individual and collective growth as we modernize and grow our tech capabilities. The Engineer of Cloud Platform Engineering will play a pivotal role in being a part of a continuing to drive the organization’s industry leading engineering platform strategy and implementation. This engineer position is responsible for participating and delivering on the continued design, implementation, and governance of our Kubernetes based engineering platform, working towards rapid adoption while tracking customer performance, ensuring they align with business objectives and drive innovation. Leverage your understanding of lean software development and developer experience to create a friction free environment to allow for continuous deployment of business value while creating a joyful creative engineering environment.

The engineer will collaborate with teams and leaders across different groups and build and deliver on cutting edge cloud technologies. They will have an opportunity to work directly with industry luminaries in this space who have had an influence in the development of tooling in this space.

Responsibilities

• Contribute to security assessments and implement cloud security best practices
• Implement company’s engineering platform strategy in alignment with business goals
• Participate in the clear vision for how platform engineering will enable a friction free, positive developer experience, ensuring scalability and adaptability
• Participate in initiatives to improve the delivery value stream across the organization
• Collaborate with high-performing teams of technical professionals
• Foster a culture of innovation and continuous improvement within the cloud and software engineering organizations
• Engage with software development teams to integrate cloud services and support continuous integration/continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines, utilizing containerization technologies like Docker and orchestration tools such as Kubernetes
  
  

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Data Science, or a related field
• 2+ years of hands-on platform/ software development
• Basic knowledge of Kubernetes, cloud computing, platform engineering, lean software development
• Knowledge plus experience in cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
• Strong attention to detail
  
  

EEOC

Ritchie Bros. is an equal opportunity employer and ensures nondiscrimination in all activities in accordance with all applicable laws. This position is open to all qualified applicants who are legally entitled to work in the country in which this job is located. Candidate selection is made by Talent Acquisition. Only electronic applications can be accepted.