Principal Platform Engineer, IS Middleware & Database Services

The J.M. Smucker Company; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 60,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to lead the operationalization of complex integration and database platforms. This role focuses on ensuring reliability, scalability, and cost-effectiveness while driving collaborative design decisions. You'll work cross-functionally to engineer cloud messaging solutions, enhance platform standards, and champion automation processes. If you have a strong background in enterprise integration and cloud technologies, along with a passion for mentoring and improving team capabilities, this is a fantastic opportunity to make a significant impact in a supportive and dynamic environment.

Benefits

Flexible Work Hours

Health Insurance

Retirement Plan

Professional Development Opportunities

Wellness Programs

Paid Time Off

Employee Discounts

Remote Work Options

Qualifications

• 7+ years experience with enterprise integration and database technologies.
• Experience with cloud services and security principles.
• Proven troubleshooting and project management skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement integration platforms for seamless connectivity.
• Lead evaluation of new technology and contribute to Infrastructure Roadmap.
• Champion process improvements and automation within the team.

Skills

Enterprise Integration Technologies

Cloud-based Business Systems

REST and SOAP APIs

Infrastructure as Code

Database Technologies

Troubleshooting Skills

Project Management

Customer Service Mindset

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related field

Tools

GitHub

Terraform

AWS CloudFormation

Jenkins

Ansible

Visual Studio

SQL Sentry

Job description

Principal Platform Engineer, IS Middleware & Database Services

Leads the operationalizing of moderate to complex integration and database platforms and services. Provides thought leadership and drives collaborative design decisions utilizing broad and deep expertise.Advises team on industry trends and new technologies.Engineers solutions to ensure reliability, scalability and cost-effectiveness for the organization. Improves existing platform utilization through process and automation enhancements and proactive monitoring.

Location: Orrville, OH (Close proximity to Cleveland/Akron)

Work Arrangements: Hybrid ~30% in office presence

In this role you will:

• Design and lead the implementation of integration platforms, ensuring seamless connectivity between systems, applications, and databases with a focus on the developer experience, security compliance, scalability, observability, and performance.

• Work cross-functionally to engineer cloud messaging/streaming and database solutions to meet stakeholder requirements.

• Enhance and socialize platform standards and best practices leveraging "infrastructure as code" for speed, consistency, and supportability.

• Champion process improvements and automation within the team to maximize efficiencies and reduce costs.

• Lead evaluation of new technology and services, contributing to the evolution of our Infrastructure Roadmap.

• Develop and execute platform migration plans.

• Execute, enforce, and promote security and audit policies, procedures, and best practices.

• Collaborate with enterprise and domain architects to internalize and apply Smucker architectural methodologies to address business needs and objectives.

• Build team and department capabilities through mentoring, training, and promoting shared learning resources.

• Participate in design reviews across infrastructure technologies.

• Support team members with administration tasks such as security, audit compliance, patching, upgrades, monitoring, business continuity, effective incident resolution, and thorough documentation.

• Advise the team on advanced database topics to ensure data integrity, platform security and availability, focusing on SQL Server technology in manufacturing and corporate environments.

• Provide 24x7 production support on a rotating basis.

The Right Place for You

We are bold, kind, strive to do the right thing, we play to win, and we believe in a strong community that thrives together. Our culture is rooted in our Basic Beliefs, and we believe in supporting every employee by meeting their physical, emotional, and financial needs.

What we are looking for:

Minimum Requirements:

• 7+ years of experience with enterprise integration and database technologies

• 3+years engineering cloud-based business systems

• Knowledge of integration services and protocols, including REST, SOAP, APIs, message queueing, pub/sub.

• Experience with cloud services, including iPaaS and DBaaS operations, deployment, storage and connection methods.

• Knowledge of security principles and methods, including experience with data classification, encryption, Active Directory, MFA and single sign-on authentication, and secrets management

• Experience with Infrastructure as Code, automation/scripting, and orchestration tools, such as, GitHub, Subversion, Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, Jenkins, dSeries, Ansible, FlexDeploy, Bash, Power Shell, BluePrism.

• Experience with file transfers and data ingestion, integration patterns, protocols, encryption levels, certificate management, endpoint administration, change data capture and bulk loads

• Knowledge of advanced database functionality such as platform and statement tuning, partitioning, replication and use of tools such Visual Studio, SQL Sentry, and Redgate.

• Broad knowledge of Infrastructure and Support technologies, including networking, system admin, storage, virtual server infrastructure, Windows, Linux, VPC, VPN, load balancers and firewalls.

• Proven troubleshooting skills of complex problems

• Demonstrated project management abilities

• Ability to learn and apply new technologies quickly and flexibly adapt to changing situations and requirements.

• Customer service mindset with stakeholders and team members.

Additional skills and experience that we think would make someone successful in this role (not required):

• Oracle SOA development and administration

• SnapLogic development and administration

• Tibco Managed File Transfer administration

• AWS Transfer Family and S3 Mountpoint

• Analytics, data warehouse, ETL/ELT, CDC experience with Databricks, Informatica IDMC, Tableau, FiveTran

• ITIL / CMDB hierarchies / ServiceNow

• Experience with Illumio and Thousand Eyes

Learn more about working at Smucker:

• Helping our Employees Thrive

• Delivering on Our Purpose

• Our Continued Commitment to Ensuring a Workplace for All

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