Platform Engineer
@
Starbucks
The Infrastructure Platform Engineering team’s focus is building massively scalable full stack infrastructure for Starbucks owned, licensed and franchise stores. This role will concentrate on building infrastructure automation leveraging a declarative GitOps approach across multiple infrastructure domains. Help us extend and leverage our capabilities across network, compute, virtualization, and containerized functions. Prior experience with CI/CD, Git, Python, Linux and Kubernetes are vital. Familiarity with cloud native design patterns, edge computing solutions and Openstack are highly desirable.
AWS
Azure
GCP
Kubernetes
Terraform
Docker
Starbucks
Starbucks Corporation is an American multinational chain of coffeehouses and roastery reserves headquartered in Seattle, Washington.
Summary of key responsibilities
Responsibilities and essential job functions include but are not limited to the following:
Technical Design and Implementation
- Collaborate on Platform Development - Help develop and grow edge compute platform for entire company owned retail stores in USA and Canada.
- Communicates highly complex ideas and concepts to non-technical peers and customers.
- Ability to establish cross-functional, collaborative relationships with business and technology partners.
- Support the development team and perform activities to resolve developer issues in a timely and accurate fashion.
- Engineer build and release processes for hosted applications and internal services.
- Implements all technologies in accordance with Information Security's guiding principles for highly sensitive data.
- Provide high-availability operational support and automate solutions across the environment.
- Implements deep telemetry capabilities to provide ongoing success and performance metrics.
- Implements service monitoring across all platforms to ensure continuous availability and operational continuity of critical systems.
Platform Stewardship
- Partners with cross functional teams, such as Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, QA, and key Development teams, to drive designs and solutions to ensure compliant, secure, and supportable solutions.
- Deepens vendor relationships to understand and influence vendor product offerings and roadmaps, improves support engagement, and gains insight into technology trends.
Production Support for application components
- Fulfills responsibilities for on call support for the application components.
- Assists with the creation and reporting of operational Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) on items such as application performance.
- Creates and maintains documentation supporting training, deployment, and operational processes.
Summary of key responsibilities
Responsibilities and essential job functions include but are not limited to the following:
Technical Design and Implementation
- Collaborate on Platform Development - Help develop and grow edge compute platform for entire company owned retail stores in USA and Canada.
- Communicates highly complex ideas and concepts to non-technical peers and customers.
- Ability to establish cross-functional, collaborative relationships with business and technology partners.
- Support the development team and perform activities to resolve developer issues in a timely and accurate fashion.
- Engineer build and release processes for hosted applications and internal services.
- Implements all technologies in accordance with Information Security's guiding principles for highly sensitive data.
- Provide high-availability operational support and automate solutions across the environment.
- Implements deep telemetry capabilities to provide ongoing success and performance metrics.
- Implements service monitoring across all platforms to ensure continuous availability and operational continuity of critical systems.
Platform Stewardship
- Partners with cross functional teams, such as Infrastructure, Security, Architecture, QA, and key Development teams, to drive designs and solutions to ensure compliant, secure, and supportable solutions.
- Deepens vendor relationships to understand and influence vendor product offerings and roadmaps, improves support engagement, and gains insight into technology trends.
Production Support for application components
- Fulfills responsibilities for on call support for the application components.
- Assists with the creation and reporting of operational Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) on items such as application performance.
- Creates and maintains documentation supporting training, deployment, and operational processes.
