Senior Platform Engineer
CZE - Central Bohemian - Prague (Five)CompetitiveHybridFull time0 applicants
About this role
Job Description
At our company, we aspire to be the premier research-intensive biopharmaceutical company. We're at the forefront of research to deliver innovative health solutions that advance the prevention and treatment of diseases in people and animals. Join us in using the power of leading-edge science to save and improve lives around the world.
Responsibilities
- Participate in defining the standards and architecture patterns predominantly for data quality and observability platform.
- Author, review, and maintain Terraform modules and state management for multi-account/multi-environment deployments.
- Implement reusable and repeatable environment provisioning and configuration.
- Create and maintain clear documentation: platform design, Infrastructure as Code patterns, operational runbooks, best practices regarding coding, security, and compliance.
- Develop, verify, test, document, amend, and refactor CI/CD pipelines and the platform configurations for deployment in collaboration with cross-disciplinary teams.
- Integrate platform with data governance tooling (catalogs, lineage, access controls).
- Utilize system life cycle working practices for platform components delivery. Deploy automation to achieve well-engineered and secure outcomes.
- Contribute to the development of solution architectures in specific business, infrastructure, or functional areas. Participate in the evaluation of alternative solutions and approaches to the current architecture and the trade-offs in cost, performance, and scalability.
- Work within a matrix organizational structure, reporting to both the functional manager and the Product manager.
- Participate in planning, execution, and delivery of the platform ensuring alignment with both functional, product, and company goals.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Information Technology, Computer Science, or any Technology stream.
- 7+ years of hands-on experience working with Python, SQL and databases, Analytics platforms, DevOps tools, and REST API.
- Very good Cloud knowledge, ideally AWS certified with a good understanding of AWS core services like EC2, EKS, S3, RDS, VPC networking, Security Groups, subnets, IAM roles/policies, Route 53, Transit Gateways, Load Balancing, Lambda, KMS.
- Deep knowledge of DevOps tools and practices (like GitHub, GitHub Actions) for code versioning and deployment.
- Understanding modern product development principles – Agile, test-driven development, UX, design thinking.
- Knowledge of development practices such as infrastructure observability, continuous integration/continuous deployment - CI/CD, containerization.
Nice to have
- Proficiency with other programming languages (Scala, R, Java).
- Experience with Databricks, Grafana, and Data Quality tools.
- Our technology teams operate as business partners, proposing ideas and innovative solutions that enable new organizational capabilities. We collaborate internationally to deliver services and solutions that help everyone be more productive and enable innovation.