Principle Platform Engineer

Why We Work at Dun & Bradstreet

Dun & Bradstreet unlocks the power of data through analytics, creating a better tomorrow. Each day, we are finding new ways to strengthen our award-winning culture and accelerate creativity, innovation and growth. Our 6,000+ global team members are passionate about what we do. We are dedicated to helping clients turn uncertainty into confidence, risk into opportunity and potential into prosperity. Bold and diverse thinkers are always welcome. Come join us!

Team Overview:

As a Platform Engineer you will be presented with a rare opportunity to build upon a greenfield platform that is a game-changer for Dun & Bradstreet. We see the enormous value and potential in self-service automation to accelerate developer velocity safely, securely, and happily by building world class software delivery capabilities for GCP. Become part of the story at this 180-year-old company of how we built a hybrid technology platform that spanned multiple cloud platforms across many products around the world.

We are looking for an expert software engineer with platform building and public cloud experience. This role is primarily for GCP, so this would be a distinct advantage, but we're open to other cloud backgrounds such as AWS.

You’ll need a deep level of frontend and backend software development combined with SRE experience to automate away toil and technical debt for our developer community. Mature software practices will be your forte, such as TDD, peer-reviews and pair programming. Thus, a strong interpersonal skillset is a must and the ability to communicate and articulate what is and isn't possible to senior stakeholders, managing their expectations along the way using Agile Scrum and Lean methodologies.

• As part of the Platform Engineering team, you will be working on a large multi-project GCP environment and developer enablement tooling that our internal application development teams rely on.

• Serve as a software engineering SME for integration, automation, reliability, monitoring, and operations of the overall platform’s IaC and CI/CD tooling enablement Developer Experience platform.

• Facilitate the requirements setting for engineering, architecting, design, and support of the platform’s integrations

• Work across Platform Engineering teams to ensure a seamless integration of the enablement services in our internal developer cloud platforms to provide capabilities to Dun & Bradstreet’s development and product aligned engineering teams to meet the needs of the business.

• Help document, advocate, and formalize patterns for resilience, availability, security, monitoring and alerting that is integrated into firm systems such as CMDB.

• Make heavy use of DevOps tools & approaches, including Terraform Cloud, GitHub Enterprise, Artifactory, Harness, Vault, Packer, etc.

• Create tools for automating deployment, monitoring and operations of the overall platform

• Participate in the Architecture Review Process and pull-request code and document reviews to help steer developers towards platform solutions whilst gathering requirements to ensure we close functional gaps on the platform (e.g., style guidelines, accuracy, testability, and efficiency)

• Be an active participant in the envisioning, design, and development process – this includes proactively suggesting improvements and alternatives along with keeping an open mind to the suggestions offered by other team members and users.

• Collaborate with technology stakeholders and product teams to develop and articulate our vision; as well as deliver and sustain the end-to-end customer experience, in globally distributed platform aligned teams across technology.

• 7 yrs+ software development experience: At least 3yr+ python3 and JavaScript/Typescript

• Proven practical industry experience of openapi schema design, Pydantic & flask API creation (inc. evidence of public repos and/or contributions to OSS)

• OAUTH2 SSO & authorization implementation experience (with Azure AD or similar IdPs) 

• NoSql Document DBs

• Demonstrable mature software development practices, inc. Git & CI/CD pipelines

• TDD in the python ecosystem (coverage, tox, pytest, monkeypatch, etc.) 

• Agile practices (any of: lean, Kanban, scrum, XP, etc. with jira or similar)

• Bachelor’s Degree in computer science or related technical field

• Ability to thrive in a high energy, high growth, fast paced, entrepreneurial environment, learning new skills to implement new technologies and excellent problem-solving skills.

• Highly collaborative team player who can build strong relationships at all levels of the technology and business organizations, with solid communication skills and ability to work across Agile teams to design, develop, test, implement, and support software solutions in full-stack development tools and technologies

• Terraform (ideally Terraform Cloud)

• Apigee-X

• AWS

• GCP

• Kubernetes (GKE, EKS)

• Harness.io CI/CD

• GitHub Enterprise

• JavaScript in a front-end design and development framework

• Observability (Splunk ideally)

• Platform engineering skills in security, cloud networking and SDLC related technologies, e.g. PKI, TLS, DNS, Secrets Management, RBAC, Remote Access, Artifact management and DevSecOps.

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