SRE - Platform Engineer

• GCP

• GSM Secrets Management (part of GCP)
• Terraform
• Honeycomb
• Grafana stack
• Prometheus

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering or related field or 8+ years experience as a software engineer
• Proficiency in kubernetes. Optional: CKA, CKAD
• Extensive experience in Unix / Linux
• Polyglot and proficiency in multiple languages (ideally: Golang, NodeJS, Python, HCL and more)
• Knowledge of multi-cloud environment, including GCP, AWS, and Azure (familiar with at least two of these environments)
• Experienced in using git in trunk-based development models
• Experience in use of feature flagging in infrastructure and runtime (k8s)
• Experience with backend database technology is a plus, including supporting and performance enhancements
• Advanced experience working with and creating public cloud resources in Terraform or other infrastructure as code tools
• Experience participating in a 24/7 on-call schedule without supervision and successfully resolving issues without escalation
• Experience using Open Telemetry for observability as well as other monitoring tools such as datadog, new relic and others
• Good understanding of networking and routing principles
• Experience in dockerizing applications and orchestrating them with kubernetes
• Familiarity with security configuration for web/api services (SSL, Access control)
• Experience with JIRA or other work tracking systems. Ability to resolve tickets according to priority order and collaborating with the Technical Product Manager to adjust priorities
• Excellent documentation details, using Confluence or similar tooling – this could include support notes, runbooks, ADRs, etc
• Familiarity with creating an end to end CI/CD pipeline using various tools with artifact storage
• Familiarity with use of MacOS as a desktop and predominantly CLI interfaces
• Experience in a “product mindset” by understanding stakeholder needs, priorities and business value
• Experience with security compliance frameworks including FedRAMP, NIST, and SOC2
• Proven experience in SRE practices, including incident management and reliability engineering
• Familiarity with monitoring tools like Prometheus, Grafana, or Honeycomb for observability
• Experience with chaos engineering, load testing, or reliability testing frameworks

Security Responsibility Statement: Employees are expected to provide a high level of security to any personal or private information accessed as part of their work, whether at a DroneUp facility or remotely.

This includes participating in security training, remaining sensitive to individual rights to personal privacy, and complying with company policies.

Employees who have access to sensitive data that is protected by regulation, such as HIPAA, or by contract, such as credit card data, must comply with any additional requirements dictated by the governing regulations or associated contracts.