Engineer, Platform Engineering

Job Purpose

We are on a mission as a team.  We are problem solvers and partners, always starting with our customers to solve their challenges and create opportunities.  Our start-up roots keep us nimble, flexible, and moving fast.  We take ownership and make decisions. We all work for one company and work together to drive growth across the business.  We engage in robust debates to find the best path, and then we move forward as one team.  We take pride in what we do, acting with integrity and passion, so that our customers can perform better.  We are experts and enthusiasts - combining ever-expanding knowledge with leading technology to consistently deliver results, solutions and opportunities for our customers and stakeholders.   Every day we work toward transforming global markets.

The Platform Engineer is responsible for creating and maintaining availability and high-performance in mixed UNIX and Windows development, non-production, and production environments. This individual works as part of a service-delivery team that assists developers, operations teams, and business teams to get results from a delivered platform as quickly as possible. Additionally, the Platform Engineer performs root cause analysis of problems, selects, develops, and implements automation tools, as well as actively participates in deeply technical discourse. In addition, the Platform Engineer is responsible for supporting software releases, deployment of those releases, scripts, installation procedures, and those tools that make all this possible.

The Platform Engineer is responsible for aspects of delivery cradle to grave, full stack. We go from requirement to retirement and all things in between. If you are interested in the ability to get involved with all aspects of system delivery, you could be a fit.

Responsibilities

• Assist in the design, planning and implementation of server solutions
• Tune and design systems infrastructure for maximum available performance
• Automation of manual tasks using scripting
• Investigate and adopt new technologies/tools as needs arise as well as implement said tools quickly and efficiently
• Participate in a weekly on-call rotation for after-hours support and respond to production operations in a 24/7 environment
• Evaluate, test, and integrate new operating system versions, drivers, and patches
• Provide technical analysis, resolve problems, and propose solutions
• Provide support to and coordinate with Developers, Operations staff, and End-Users
• Provide education and/or mentorship where needed to Teammates, Operations, Development and QA
• Ensure streamlined application deployments as part of the overall SDLC

Knowledge and Experience

• Bachelors is required in engineering discipline or equivalent experience in Systems Engineering or related.
• 3+ years of experience with engineering Operating Systems, Tools Automation, or similar role in platform delivery
• Experience with server virtualization technologies (VMWare, Proxmox, etc.)
• Strong understanding of networking protocols and configuration (TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, InfiniBand, etc.)
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining on-prem computing ecosystems
• Solid experience coding with any combination of PowerShell, Python, Bourne, Groovy, and others
• Experience with automation/configuration management using either Puppet, Chef, Ansible or an equivalent
• Experience with Jenkins or Jenkins X; including in part but not limited to
• Setting up Jenkins & Jenkins Agents
• Plugin management
• Familiarity with and using Jenkins APIs
• Jenkins Pipelines

Preferred Knowledge and Experience

• Familiarity and experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes, OpenShift, Tanzu, etc.)

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Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to legally protected characteristics.