Mission Critical Platform Developer

Family Description

Develops fault-tolerant, resilient architectures, implements monitoring and failover mechanisms, and optimizes system reliability.

Subfamily Description

Collaborates with cross-functional teams to integrate HA solutions into critical applications, troubleshoot issues, and maintain performance under high-load and failure scenarios.

* Assist in the design and development of high availability and fault-tolerant software systems.

* Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify platform requirements for HA and disaster recovery.

* Participate in the development and testing of monitoring, failover, and backup mechanisms to ensure system resilience.

* Support the implementation of inter process and inter system communications

* Document processes, testing protocols, and support procedures for high availability solutions.

* Assist in troubleshooting, debugging, and optimizing software components for increased platform resilience.

* Research and implement modern tools and techniques for improving system uptime and reliability.

* Participate in code reviews, testing, and quality assurance efforts to ensure platform stability.

Impact

Impact is short-term and departmental/project in scope. Accountable for quality, accuracy and efficiency. Actions and errors can have functional area impact.

Scope & Contribution

Individual Contributor: Variety of complex tasks within area of responsibility, Demonstrates initiative & contributes to problem solving. Acts with independence and discretion in routine matters. Makes decisions that affect own work. Managerial/Supervisory: May act as Team Leader or Project Leader with some direct supervisory responsibilities in addition to own work assignments. Variety of complex tasks within area of responsibility. Acts with independence and discretion in routine matters. Makes decisions that affect own work.

Innovation

Performs routine activites to meet departmental/project objectives. Requires moderate supervision. Applies commonly recognised concepts within their field of expertise. Shares knowledge with less experienced peers or have high collegial interaction. Raises innovative ideas. Demonstrates adaptability to changing business environments. Is willing to take on new roles or jobs appropriate to skill set in different environments and/or locations.

Communication

Works to influence others to accept job functions view/practices and agree/accept new concepts, practices, and approaches. May conduct briefings with senior leaders within the job function. May at times be required to negotiate regarding operational issues. Has cross-cultural knowledge and global mindset

Knowledge & Experience

Basic knowledge of programming languages such as C and C++

• Basic understanding of distributed systems, network infrastructure, and cloud technologies.

• Knowledge of Linux operating systems and scripting languages (e.g., Bash, Python).

• Familiarity with high availability architectures.

• Strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.

• Ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment.

• Good written and verbal communication skills.

  Preferred Skills:

• Familiarity with version control tools (e.g., Git, GitHub).
• Basic understanding of CI/CD pipelines and how automated testing integrates into the software development lifecycle.
• Fault-tolerant system design, clustering, replication, distributed systems, monitoring and alerting, high-availability frameworks, performance optimization, troubleshooting under load.