Platform Engineer - Manulife

The customer is at the focus of everything we do, and millions of end users rely on our products daily. We believe in the value of empowering engineers with the resources to solve critical problems for the future of the business and technology partners, which is why we need you.

We are seeking motivated engineers, who are obsessed with delivering quality service and value, are forward-thinking problem solvers, who love to learn from both successes and failures. You are passionate about the “Why” and like to seek out answers to understand how we do things and how we can continuously improve. You are excited to build and support DevOps platforms to help provide enablement to our Engineering squads. Supporting them to realize and refine their Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery practices and providing real value to their day-to-day software development lifecycle.

We are growing, and we are looking for a DevOps Platform Engineer for our team!

Position Responsibilities:

Complete evaluation, identification, and automation for the administration of various tools used in the DevOps Engineering Infrastructure

Develop, build and maintain pipeline automation scripts and process

Support and maintain the DevOps tooling platforms, including participation in an off-hours on-call rotation. Select regular working hours will overlap Monday–Friday with Canada Eastern Time business hours.

Apply organizational and problem-solving abilities that enable you to manage through creative abrasion.

Leverage strong verbal and written communication with the ability to effectively articulate and communicate technical vision, possibilities, and outcomes.

Collaborate with product managers, software engineers, and operations engineers to uncover pain points and opportunities to deliver new business value through innovative platform solutions.

Participating in ideation and brainstorming sessions to devise creative platform solutions. We need and value fresh ideas!

Leading various investigative "Spikes" in order to mitigate technical uncertainty and risk.

Be part or lead some initiatives to develop and improve standards, practices and methodologies.

Working closely with the Technical Product Owner to refine the Product Backlog including providing initial estimates and actively participating with the weekly Look Ahead meetings.

Promote a co-operative work environment through building relationships with our stakeholders and driving enhancements to the end-to-end process (workstation to production)

Collaborate with architects and solution delivery leadership to understand, design and deliver platform desired state configuration

Delver implementation of production reliability and usage metric capture, targeting logging, monitoring, and automated insight’s, optimize user experience by collaborating with platform users to understand context and challenges

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