Senior Platform Engineer Lisboa

Senior Platform Engineer
Lisboa
Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

Richemont owns some of the world’s leading luxury goods Maisons, with particular strengths injewellery, watches, fashion and accessories. Each Maison represents a proud tradition of style, quality and craftsmanship and Richemont seeks to preserve the heritage and identity of each of its Maisons. At the same time, we are committed to innovation and designing new products which are in keeping with our Maisons’ values, through a process of continuous creativity.

MAIN PURPOSE

Richemont is looking for a talented and experienced Senior Platforms Engineer to reinforce its API Platforms Team in charge of building a
- stop platform aiming to consolidate, standardize, and facilitate the use of APIs and Events by internal teams, all its Maisons and external partners.

As a Senior Platforms Engineer you will be part of the Richemont Group Technology Enterprise Integration Team and you will report to the API Platforms Technical Lead. You will work in a global environment with highly distributed teams in different countries and time zones and at different management levels.

You will participate in both development and operations with a focus on the platform, its tools and supporting functionality. A Dev
Ops mindset is required where you strive to always empower the Messaging platform users through
- service, automation, and observability. Security is considered a hygiene factor and permeates all your work.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES

• Collaborate with Developer, Support, and other team members in developing, maintaining, supporting, and operating the API Management platform (Kong) and Enterprise Messaging platform (Solace)
• Integrate the platform with various external systems
• Develop, maintain, and deploy infrastructure as code using Terraform, Ansible
• Develop, maintain, operate and support CI/CD pipelines in Gitlab for automating various tasks and deploying services on Kubernetes clusters
• Operate services on Kubernetes in GCP, AWS and Alibaba
• Maintain and operate the Developer Portal based on Drupal
• Maintain and operate the API Design Center developed on Python and React
• Maintain and operate the Queue Mangement Tool written in Java/Spring Boot and Angular
• Participate in the development and deployment of our platforms based on Kubernetes
• Participate in the creation, publishing, and maintenance of Docker images
• Contribute to support documents,
  - to’s and other technical articles in English

REQUIREMENTS

• B. Sc. or MSc in Computer Science, Software Engineering or related field
• Strong technical background
• Strong,
  - on experience of both development and operations is a must
• Strong interpersonal, and communication skills and high attention to detail.
• Strong knowledge in cloud computing platform such as GCP, AWS and Alibaba
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes
• Strong knowledge of Terraform and Ansible
• Experience building Git
  Ops pipelines with Terraform and Gitlab
• Experience with Kong is a definite plus
• Experience with Messaging brokers (e. g. Solace) is a definite plus
• Experience with Anthos is a plus
• Experience with Istio and Envoy is a plus
• Experience in software architecture and development lifecycle
• Hands on experience with technology concepts such as APIs, Events,
  - services, Cloud hosting, CRM (e. g. Salesforce platform), ERP (e. g. SAP)
• Strong analytical,
  - solving, negotiation and organizational skills
• Ability to communicate with technical and business teams (all levels)
• Good knowledge of service delivery management field
• Experience with Atlassian Suite mainly Confluence and Jira
• Good knowledge of agile methodology and frameworks such as Scrum and Kanban
• Fluent English required , other languages are a plus (e. g. French, Italian, Chinese)
• Willingness & ability to travel
• Ability to work in a complex,
  - paced, distributed environment with high expectations

Other desired skills/areas of proficiency: