Senior Platform Engineer

EP | Central Casting•Burbank, CA

2d•$133,000 - $135,000

About The Position

At Entertainment Partners and Central Casting, we are committed to creating an environment where every employee is seen, where ideas, thoughts and perspectives are shared openly, and where fearless innovation is encouraged. Weaving diversity, equity, and inclusion into who we are will drive our competitiveness by encouraging creativity and enhanced decision making. We help to power Oscar-winning films, Emmy-winning shows, and Clio-winning commercials. Feel the satisfaction of doing work that directly impacts the most exciting industry in the world. EP is poised to redefine and evolve the back-office processes of the entertainment community with security at the core of what we do. Are you looking for the next opportunity to revolutionize an industry? If so.... Senior Site Reliability Engineer at EP are responsible for the capacity planning, cost, change management, monitoring, alerting, emergency response, availability, and performance of services. This includes advising on and often constructing the platform components underlying the services. They work closely with development and operations teams, building platforms and telemetry to assure service quality. They work with business teams to advise on cost/performance/reliability tradeoffs. SREs at the principal level are expected to lead these efforts for multiple systems within a business unit, making improvements in processes and helping guide partner and junior staff. EP’s services are hosted on premises and within cloud-based services spanning the globe. These workloads are hosted on a mix of Linux and windows platforms. For this role, the successful candidate will have a deep understanding of how distributed systems operate at scale and across multiple geographies, and a deep knowledge of windows. The role is to work on the windows-based workloads, but these share tooling, common services, and practices with Linux workloads and must seamlessly cooperate for our business users.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in computer engineering, computer science or related field
7+ years computer system implementation work experience
3+ years defining requirements, designing enterprise scale distributed systems and services
Extensive experience with windows operating systems, IIS (Internet Information Services), networking systems, cloud systems
Experience with Windows server automation, PowerShell
Experience with Windows configuration management at scale
Extensive experience troubleshooting and analyzing performance of distributed systems
Experience deploying and upgrading enterprise scale distributed systems
Fluency in PowerShell, bash, operating system and cloud libraries
Understanding of software development lifecycle steps and agile or similar team organization roles
Experience implementing CI/CD for multiple projects and teams
Experience with containerizing workloads, Kubernetes, related tooling
Experience with windows workloads in an AWS (Amazon Web Services) environment
Flexible approach to problem solving, open to new ideas
Ability to collaborate with key business decision makers
Ability to learn new technologies quickly
Ability to refine requirement statements
Conduct regular audits and implement necessary remediation measures.
Document solutions and best practices for knowledge sharing purposes.
Excellent communication and presentation skills
Ability to translate complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders
Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
Strategic thinking and business acumen
Collaborative approach to working with cross-functional teams
Active Directory configuration and integration
Integrating heterogeneous technology stacks
Linux server automation, bash, python
Ansible or similar automation tooling
Experience in build and packaging for windows and dotnet based services
Performance analysis and optimization of relational databases
Windows containers
Deploying windows workloads to Google Cloud Platform or Azure

Responsibilities

Build platform automation for new platforms, deployment, and remediation tasks
Enhance observability: monitoring, alerting, and logging for workloads and infrastructure
Advise development teams building new services on platform and availability issues, helping them use standard reliable platform patterns
Implement appropriate SLIs, health checks
Plan capacity for services
Implement continuous integration (CI) and deployment pipelines using standard tooling
Participate in readiness reviews as new services are released to customers
Implement platforms and platform improvements via Infrastructure as Code (IAC)
Actively participate in incident response
Lead troubleshooting, root cause analysis
Lead blameless incident reviews to drive improvements
Work with EP security staff to build secure services and service platforms
Automate services and platform related tasks