Senior Platform Engineer

oanda; Warszawa; On-site; PLN 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Job summary

OANDA is seeking a Platform Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team, responsible for delivering a high-availability global platform across on-premise and cloud environments. In this role, you will design, build and operate hybrid infrastructure, automate with IaC, manage VMware/Linux/Windows, and deploy observability to improve reliability and performance across production systems.

You will collaborate with product teams to accelerate delivery while upholding security and engineering

Qualifications

• 4+ years of hands-on Platform Engineering experience.
• Experience with Terraform, GCP, Ansible, Kubernetes and Prometheus.
• Strong troubleshooting and incident response skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and configure hybrid network solutions including load balancers, firewalls, interconnectivity and routing between production environments.
• Build and operate cloud and on-premise environments using Infrastructure as Code.
• Automate system administration of VMware, Linux and Windows servers and virtual hosts.
• Deploy modern distributed observability and monitoring tools to measure service levels and improve performance and availability.
• Respond to and resolve production incidents; contribute to postmortems and translate learnings into improvements.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to research and deploy innovative products and technologies to improve velocity, reliability and performance.

Skills

Hands-on Platform Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Google Cloud Platform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Prometheus stack

Job description

Fancy helping to shape the future of FinTech? We have always been innovators. In 1996 we were the first company to share exchange rate information, free of charge on the internet. Today, we are a world leading online trading group.

Join us to:

• Help build the future of online trading
• Be part of a culture driven by integrity and global impact
• Become part of an award-winning company - check out our full list of awards here

We are only as good as our people. Luckily, our people are the best. Join us!

How do we work?

As a member of the Platform Engineering team at OANDA, you are responsible for providing the infrastructure to efficiently and reliably serve our applications to OANDA customers. You will manage the underlying hardware and operating systems to deliver a high-availability, fault-tolerant global platform spanning on-premise and cloud environments. In addition, you will provide a platform for application delivery based on modern orchestration and automation tools to enable the product development teams to quickly and safely deploy, while ensuring continued adherence to OANDA security and engineering standards.

In this role, you will:

• Work on the design and configuration of hybrid network solutions such as hardware and software load balancers, firewalls and interconnectivity and routing between our production environments.
• Design, build and operate cloud and on-premise environment using Infrastructure as Code approach.
• Automate system administration of VMWare, Linux and Windows servers and virtual hosts.
• Deploy modern distributed observability and monitoring tools to measure service levels and improve performance and availability of our systems.
• Respond to, and resolve, production incidents. Contribute detailed feedback to our postmortem process and translate event learnings into infrastructure and application improvements.
• Work on cross-functional teams to research and deploy innovative products and technologies that improve our velocity, reliability, and performance.

What skillset you need, to be successful in this role:

• 4+ years of hands-on experience in a Platform Engineering
• Terraform
• Google Cloud Platform
• Ansible
• Kubernetes
• Prometheus stack

Nice to have:

• If you have experience with scripting languages such as Python, PowerShell.
• Technologies like Mimir, Splunk, Loki, Grafana, Cloudflare and general networking.

At OANDA, to help us efficiently process applications, we use AI-driven tools to help source and rank candidates based on professional experience and skills. While these tools provide recommendations, our recruitment process remains human-centric: all final shortlisting and hiring decisions are made by OANDA team. You have the right to request a human review of your application.

OANDA Global Corporation is a diverse and global team with offices around the world. We value the unique skills and experiences each individual brings to OANDA. We are committed to creating and sustaining a collegial work environment in which all individuals are treated with dignity and respect and one which reflects the diversity of the community in which we operate. We provide an inclusive and accessible environment for everyone.

Candidates selected for an interview will be contacted directly.

If you require accommodation during the recruitment and selection process, please let us know. We will work with you to provide as seamless a recruitment experience as possible.

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