Associate Director - Platform Engineer (DevEx) - (100% Remote Flexibility, US, UK, OR Costa Rica)

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As a key member of our innovation team within the central product group, you will be instrumental in developing tools, products, and best practices to improve the developer experience in terms of productivity and ease of use. Your role will involve close collaboration with developers to enhance platform DevEx, performance, reliability, and scalability.

Responsibilities:

• Develop clean, functional code with a polyglot engineering mindset. Proficiency in multiple languages Python is required, and ability to pick up Go, Typescript.
• Experience providing a smooth local development environment for Kubernetes deployed services running docker locally for multiple services.
• Coordinate with development teams facilitating experimentation along with functional testing of applications, setting up & implementing test frameworks for unit, integration & contract tests.
• Lead the adoption of cloud-native environments including Kubernetes. Managing the complete development lifecycle of applications from design to rollout.
• Evolve and maintain CI/CD processes for streamlined development and deployment.
• Creative and inquisitive mindset, with skills in independent research and in creating POCs (proof of concept)
• Deliver self-serve Observability & service management to engineering teams.
• Collaborate in an environment where everyone's ideas are valued.
• Troubleshooting skills are crucial along with active participation in team activities such as suggesting architecture improvements or recommending process improvements.
• The ability to work collaboratively with team members ensuring successful task delivery is a necessity and assisting in coordinating the activities of less experienced team members.
• Create comprehensive documentation and conduct training sessions to support our tools and processes adoption and usage.
• Continuously research the Platform Engineering and DevEx landscapes, keeping track of trends in in developer-platform processes and tooling, and conducting quick experiments and POCs to evaluate their potential and effect on developer productivity and happiness.
• Contribute to product direction discussions and help shape the product roadmap.

Qualifications:

• 5+ years of experience in software development, preferably Python.

• Solid understanding and experience working with pipeline automation and CI/CD systems
• Understanding of GitOps concept, (e.g. ArgoCD)
• Experience with Docker and Kubernetes
• Experience with Cloud Providers Azure, AWS or GCP
• Experience with IAC preferably Terraform
• Effective communication and interpersonal skills:

• be able to discuss and defend opinions when designing a solution or approach
• be able to support developers in using DevEx offerings

• Supporting users on Mac/Linux/Windows Platforms
• Observability stacks (e.g. Grafana, Sentry)
• Experience & interest in GenAI frameworks LangChain, Llama Index, LangSmith
• Knowledge of Data pipelines & MLOps workflows a plus.
• BS in Computer Science (or equivalent)
• Ability to work under pressure to meet tight deadlines.
• Willingness to learn, a can-do attitude, and motivation to succeed and grow.

Moody's is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, place of origin, disability, marital or familial status, sexual orientation, gender expression, gender identity or any other characteristic protected by law. We encourage applications from Aboriginal persons, members of a visible minority group, persons with a disability, members of the LGBTQ+ community, and women.

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