Job Description

Company DescriptionVention helps some of the most innovative manufacturing companies automate their production floor in just a few days. Vention's enables its clients to design, automate, order, and deploy manufacturing equipment directly from their web browser.Vention is headquartered in Montreal, Canada, with offices in Berlin and Boston, and is used in over 3,000 factories on 5 continents. As one of and , we are a performance driven culture that cares deeply about happiness. We like ambitious goals, facts & data, and constructive debates. But at the same time, we know that we can't repeatedly push ourselves if we are not surrounded by an uplifting and caring work environment. Those two sides of our culture, feed each other and are safeguarded with the same level of attention. Our include:

• We make our clients successful - we do what's right for our customers, even when it makes our roles more challenging.
• We execute and deliver - we set ambitious goals for ourselves and are energized about meeting them.
• We debate, then commit - we challenge our own perspectives and ideas in pursuit of the best solutions.
• We innovate to inspire - we value innovation in products, user experiences, and business practices.
• We collaborate to achieve more - we work as one team to achieve more than we would on our own.
• We empower our people to reach their full potential - we hold ourselves to high standards but know when to celebrate progress & achievements

As a Senior Platform Engineer at Vention, you will focus on developing the internal development platform and promoting the DevSecOps practice to increase developer productivity, observability, operational reliability and cloud/application cybersecurity through well-orchestrated automated services for code/configuration and delivery across development and production environments. You will be a key player for managing our software inventory and lifecycle and ensure we have upgrade paths for our tools and software packages before they reach end-of-support status. You will also be responsible for ensuring that all of our cloud and embedded production systems have adequate monitoring for uptime and health.You will participate in the establishment of troubleshooting best practices and create playbooks for dealing with emergency production downtime scenarios. Exemplary documentation skills will be needed to create guides and thorough inventory/statuses around our systems and best practices. This is a highly collaborative role and will require hands-on interactions with all development leaders and senior technology management to guide, implement and promote DevSecOps initiatives.You will report directly to the Director of Software Platform Engineering as part of the DevSecOps team.What you will be doing:

• Participate in the development of Vention's Internal Development Platform.
• Participate in the development of scalable, high performance, highly-availability and secure cloud environments.
• Participate in the development of secure solutions for vulnerability scanning, secrets management, code quality checks, and dependency management aligned with security policies and compliance.
• Be responsible for building and establishing Vention's code pipeline allowed for CI/CD and ensuring a nimble, cost-effective cloud self-served platform which is composed of a development and production environments that are at parity for both cloud systems, and hardware side of things (deployments to embedded controllers).
• Ensuring proper performance, reliability and security observability of all production software and systems.
• Work with development teams to ensure DevSecOps best practices are followed.
• Work with development teams to establish deployment and continuous improvement of infrastructure services.
• Participate in incident response, forensic and post mortem activities.
• You will help establish troubleshooting best practices.
• Help optimize our AWS cost and infrastructure and work with teams to help determine which AWS services will best serve our development and infrastructure needs.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in DevOps/Platform engineering or in a similar software engineering role.
• Good knowledge of any of the modern programming languages and a strong understanding of overall web software architecture.
• Experience with managing and optimizing one of the following PaaS: AWS; GCP; or Azure.
• Experience in establishing server monitoring and creating automated reporting and observability with tools such as Datadog, Sentry, SumoLogic, etc.
• Strong understanding of deploying and orchestrating containers (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.), targeting tiny and large hardware platforms (from arm-based embedded devices to large multi-tenant systems).
• Experience with modem CI/CD platforms such as GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc.
• Experience with configuration management & provisioning experience with knowledge of infrastructure as code tools such as Terraform.
• Experience with implementation of cloud cybersecurity best practices
• Experience with linux platforms, scripting, networking, etc.
• Experience with incremental building and caching.
• Experience with dependency management.
• A solid understanding of architecture trade-offs (reliability, performance, security, maintainability, testability, operability, etc).
• A good understanding of cost trade-offs (at deployment, build-time, run-time, development-time, and with respect to hardware resources).
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills.

Additional InformationHow We Take Care of You

• Flexible paid time off and remote work policies.
• Complimentary beverages and snacks so that you are fuelled and ready for your day.
• Global comprehensive health plans so you feel your best.
• Career growth opportunities. Your future matters.
• Fun-filled social events curated based on diverse interests for our team to celebrate together. From sponsored sports teams to trivia nights.
• Time off to volunteer and give back to your community.

What to Expect in Your Interview

• Initial Call
• Meet the Team
• Challenge
• On site interview
• Decision & Offer

xe2x80x8dCommitment to Equal Employment OpportunityOur culture is an uplifting environment for high achievers. The fast-paced, high-performance environment will give you the opportunity to build products, processes and strategies that will have a lasting impact.When you join Vention, you join a team of professionals with a diverse variety of experiences, backgrounds, and perspectives. Together, we strive to nurture a supportive and inclusive work environment for all. We push each other to achieve extraordinary results and forge long term relationships as a result of the intensity and passion.We're passionate about helping you do your best work. Claim your seat and find out what you can do!If you're unsure if your experience perfectly matches our job posting, we encourage you to apply anyway. We are happy to chat and get to know you better while you can understand the role as well.

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