Lead Platform Engineer at Capital One driving transformation in technology and solutions with Agile practices and DevOps tools. Collaborating on complex technical problems in a fast - paced environment.
About the role
- Product Reliability Engineer ensuring availability and scalability for Kraken's energy management platform. Collaborate with diverse teams to enhance system performance and reliability.
Responsibilities
- Teach and support product teams on best practices for reliability, implementation patterns and effective usage of our existing platforms
- Support product teams in improving the performance and availability of their systems
- Be hands-on in code and infrastructure to help product teams with reliability improvements
- Provide comprehensive feedback to the wider Platform group on improvements to be made to core infrastructure based on observations and first-hand experience in the code base
- Support the build-out of proof-of-concept requirements in product teams as needed to evolve application deployment architecture to align with business growth as well as enhance scalability and system resilience
- Collaborate with product teams to support the release of new features and services, ensuring adherence to reliability and performance standards
- Guide product teams in designing systems for resilience and graceful failure under heavy load
- Assist application teams with post-incident tasks and follow-ups, and contribute to the creation and review of post-mortem documentation
- Analyse incident metrics to identify trends and potential improvements, communicating these insights to the product teams
- Help solve interesting and difficult problems. There’s a great opportunity for disruption in the global energy market
Requirements
- Great communication skills, working effectively with developers, product managers and other business stakeholders to understand, design and deliver impactful projects and reliability improvements
- Solid hands-on experience across our core platform stack:
- **AWS** (supporting and improving cloud infrastructure used by product teams)
- **Terraform** (infrastructure as code; comfortable operating with Terraform day-to-day)
- **Kubernetes** (container orchestration and deployment management; comfortable working with Kubernetes day-to-day)
- Experience using industry-standard observability tooling - we use Datadog, Grafana, Prometheus and Rootly (experience with other monitoring/alerting platforms is transferable)
- Strong collaboration and communication skills - able to work effectively with developers, product managers, and other stakeholders to design and deliver impactful observability “golden paths” and monitoring experiences
- Exposure to Python (or a similar C-based language like TypeScript, Go, C#) - able to understand how applications behave in production to support observability and reliability improvements
- Previous experience working in small, highly autonomous teams
- A working style that fits how we operate:
- Comfortable with ambiguity and able to create structure in unclear situations
- Proactive learning mindset (experiment, iterate, and adapt as the team evolves approaches)
- Strong asynchronous written communication (Slack/Notion/docs) and a habit of keeping others in the loop
- Autonomy and accountability - making progress independently and owning outcomes
Benefits
- We want to ensure you have all the tools and environment you need to unleash your potential
- If you have any specific accommodations or a unique preference, please contact us at [email protected] and we'll do what we can to customise your interview process for comfort and maximum magic!
- Kraken is a certified Great Place to Work in France, Germany, Spain, Japan and Australia
- In the UK we are one of the Best Workplaces on Glassdoor with a score of 4.7
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