Experience, Skills & Qualifications:  

Essential:  

• You have experience operating, automating, and maintaining cloud infrastructure (in either AWS or GCP), including contributing to system architecture and design. 

• With expertise in at least one of the following: (storage, routing, cloud networking, org policy definition and automation, IAM)  

• You have programming experience with Golang, Python, JVM-based languages, or similar modern languages.  

• You have experience with general automation patterns and version controlling  

• You have experience in managing Kubernetes deployments, as well as writing Kubernetes operators or controllers.  

• You have taken part in projects from design to production.  

• You've worked in multi-disciplinary teams focused on delivering shared outcomes within the software delivery lifecycle. 

Desirable: 

• You have written and maintained code that interfaces with the Kubernetes API, such as operators, controllers, add-ons, etc.    

• You have written applications using Go and have a thorough understanding of its language features and idiomatic practices.  

• You can demonstrate your experience with some of the core technologies in use (Kubernetes, Kubevela, GKE, EKS, Grafana LGTM stack, Sentry, Open Telemetry, Concourse, GitHub Actions, Terraform, Ansible, Postgres, Mongo)  

• You have experience in building APIs, exposing components in a programmable way, to be consumed by humans and machines. 

What you will be doing  

3 months  

You'll work in collaboration with your team to gain a working context of our environment, get to know your colleagues and customers, and fill gaps in your skills and knowledge. 

You will:  

• Take an active role in your team.  

• Understand the business value we deliver  

• Develop an understanding of our customers and their needs.  

• Develop understanding of our Engineering Platform and key strategies.  

• Learn about the software development lifecycle in Springer Nature.  

• Gain knowledge of the key technologies and tools in use by your team (e.g., Cloud Foundry, GKE, EKS, etc)   

• Participate in team ceremonies and day-to-day work.  

• Create a development plan with your line manager to expand your skills and knowledge. 

3–6 months  

You'll be leveraging your understanding of our context to contribute to the department's priorities, while continuing to build relationships and skills. 

You will:  

• Contribute to platform improvements.  

• Use the right technology solutions to solve the problem at hand.  

• Have a good understanding of the context the team is working within.  

• Be able to properly understand and discuss business requirements with stakeholders and product owners.  

• Become familiar with the security, compliance, and accessibility risks that affect our products, and understand how to mitigate them.  

• Manage container-based runtime platforms confidently.  

• Participate in architectural discussions.  

• Understand the goals of the company and how the department helps to deliver them.  

• Continue deepening your skills and knowledge. 

6–12 months  

You'll be recognised as a key contributor to your team, driving the platform forward. You will be working with your team and our customers to accelerate business delivery in a low-risk, scalable manner. 

You will:  

• Lead major initiatives.  

• Improve system performance and reliability.  

• Take active steps to ensure that risk is mitigated in the products your team ships.  

• Shape evolution of our Engineering platform.  

• Confidently support and enable delivery through good practices.  

• Participate in user research to better understand our users' needs, when applicable.  

• Provide useful and actionable feedback to team members and foster a culture where team members proactively give and receive feedback as a norm.  

• Help grow the internal culture through events such as technical share-backs, 10% time etc. 

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