O pozici
8am is looking for a Cloud Platform Engineer to help us build and maintain our next-generation platform. You will be a member of the Platform Engineering Organization, which is responsible for the software and infrastructure management focusing on availability, performance and security of core service layers supporting our payments platform and practice management software. We serve over 200,000 legal professionals and process over $18 billion in payments every year! You will work closely with our development teams to ensure they have the tools needed to build, test, and deploy code with ease and ensure software and quality engineer success. You will engineer and maintain configuration management environments, software delivery pipelines, IaC processes, technical governance and observability tools among other areas of platform availability.
This role is hired through an Employer of Record (EOR) partner in the Czech Republic.
Co budeš dělat
- Automate deployment, monitoring, and management for 100% AWS cloud based infrastructure
- Develop, implement and own developer focused internal tooling and automation as your product
- Share in new feature design as the cloud SME supporting container/k8s first designs
- Create and maintain automated Ci/CD pipelines that streamline the release process and ensure high-quality code is delivered rapidly and continuously in a safe and compliant manner
- Develop, manage and enhance the Internal Developer and Production Platforms achieving maximum availability and stability metrics
- Collaborate with developers to identify pain points and bottlenecks in the development process and design and implement solutions that improve the developer experience and increase overall productivity
- Put together comprehensive onboarding programs and training resources to seamlessly integrate new developers into the organization
- Participate in an on-call rotation and provide emergency support occasionally outside of normally scheduled hours as needed
- Evolve and extend observability tools and systems to determine and resolve performance and usability issues
Koho hledáme
- 5+ years of professional technical experience in software engineering, AWS cloud operations or a related function.
- 3+ years of experience within a DevOps, INF or Platform Engineering role
- Experience implementing and maintaining kubernetes specific Ci/CD pipelines using CircleCI (preferred), ArgoCD (preferred), Jenkins, Github Actions, Gitlab, Azure Devops, etc.
- Experience creating internal tooling that supports developer productivity
- Experience designing and implementing automated development environments
- Documented experience provisioning and managing infrastructure in a public cloud environment such as AWS (heavily preferred), Google Cloud Platform, or Azure
- Experience with Linux container technologies, such as Docker, OCI, LXC and ability to administer, build and deploy images in an automated manner.
- Solid understanding of how a Kubernetes platform operates (service discovery, deployments, monitoring, scheduling, load balancing)
- Proficiency in at least one, ideally more of the following programming or scripting languages: Ruby, Python, Java, Javascript (NodeJS), Bash
- Experience utilizing Infrastructure as Code to provision and maintain infrastructure: Terraform (preferred), CloudFormation
- Working understanding of relational database systems such as MySQL (preferred) and PostgreSQL
- Experience with Kafka on an MSK environment is a plus
- Experience with ElasticSearch is a plus
- Experience with generative and agentic AI in an infrastructure management and implementation perspective is a plus
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, or a related field (or equivalent experience).
Benefity
- International company environment with collaboration across Europe and the U.S.
- Opportunities to travel for company events (including potential U.S. visits)
- Engaging team culture with local events, outings, and community initiatives
- High-quality company swag and programs focused on wellness, learning, and connection
