Experienced Platform Engineer (Kubernetes) - Remote

Steer offers a suite of software tools for today's automotive repair shop. We combine a mix of software tools that a repair shop needs to run a highly profitable shop, in one user-friendly, cost-effective platform. Through the Steer CRM suite, we allow the shop owner to get back to focusing on what matters, and to stop worrying about marketing and customer retention.

Steer began as an online directory for drivers to find a local mechanic. Fast forward to today, Steer has launched a complete Customer Relationship Management (CRM) marketing suite, complete with text messaging, email automation, direct mail integration, reputation management, appointment reminders, declined/recommended services, and many other features. We are always innovating and we are proud to be a leader in the automotive repair industry.

About the role

Steer is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer with extensive production Kubernetes experience to join our Platform Engineering Team responsible for designing and implementing our infrastructure in Kubernetes, improving our monitoring and alerting, working with application engineers to find and implement the right solutions, and ensuring uptime, resilience and scalability in response to surging product usage.

 

You Will 

• Manage and deploy cloud-based environments for all stages of application development and testing
• Build deployment tooling to allow our application developers greater autonomy and self service
• Find and mitigate application, cloud and network vulnerabilities and bottlenecks. Not only suggest improvements, but champion investment in those improvements 
• Develop and deploy CI/CD automation infrastructure using Github Actions, Flux
• Ensure appropriate application and infrastructure logging and monitoring to maintain highest possible uptime
• Monitor system components and application processing to proactively identify incidents, resolve issues, and lead incident support / root cause analysis 

You have

Must have

• Experience working for a product company, ideally a startup; consulting, outsourcing, corporate experience is non-transferable
• 8+ years Platform Engineering/DevOps/System administration
• 4+ years extensive, demonstrable, every day Kubernetes experience: designing, deploying and operating complex production environments using advanced cloud native tools
• 5+ years public cloud experience: AWS (preferred), GCP, Azure
• 4+ years extensive Terraform experience, including managing large infrastructures, writing modules, refactoring manifests, Terragrunt or similar
• 3+ years programming experience in a modern programming language: Go (preferred), Python, plus shell scripting proficiency
• Worked with mission-critical, 24/7 production environments
• Experience securing infrastructure for internet-facing applications

 

Nice to have

• Extensive CI/CD knowledge, implementing software build and deployment pipelines, advanced deployment patterns
• GitOps experience (FluxCD, ArgoCD)
• Hands-on experience with some/all of MongoDB, RabbitMQ, Redis, Postgres, service meshes, API gateways, etc.
• Hands-on monitoring experience with modern tools and services, e.g. Prometheus, Grafana, Loki, ELK/EFK, CloudWatch, DataDog, NewRelic
• Good understanding of distributed systems
• Agile software development methodologies experience

 

We offer

• For European-based candidates - this is a B2B Contract role
• Health, Dental & Vision Insurance
• Flexible PTO
• Learning Stipend
• 100% Remote
• WFH Equipment
• Chance to work with the latest technology
• A collaborative and innovative work culture
• Opportunities for career growth and development

 

At Steer, we value diversity and believe that forming teams in which everyone can be their authentic self is key to our success. We welcome applications from those with diverse backgrounds and industries.

Our hiring process looks beyond just credentials. The school you went to at 18 doesn't define your potential to thrive and enrich our culture. Even if you don't meet every requirement, we invite you to apply.