Senior Cloud Platform Engineer

Collectors is the leading creator of innovative technology that provides value-added services for collectors worldwide. We grade, authenticate, vault, and help sell millions of high-value, record-setting collectibles, all while modernizing and digitalizing the process to further our mission of helping collectors pursue their passions. Our services span collectible coins, trading cards, Funko Pops!, video games, event tickets, autographs, and memorabilia. Our subsidiaries include PSA, PCGS, WATA, Card Ladder, and the Long Beach Expo collectibles trade show. Since our founding in 1986, we have graded and authenticated millions of items. We employ more than 1,700 people across our headquarters in Santa Ana and offices in Jersey City, Seattle, Hong Kong, Paris, Shanghai, and Tokyo.

We’re transforming the collecting experience with technology that brings authentication, grading, and trading into the modern era. Our products equalize the playing field by providing tools that make complex research analytics — including pricing, scarcity reports, and historical sales data — accessible to every collector, old or new. Our engineering mission is to democratize technology while promoting innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We're seeking engineers to utilize advanced technology in agile settings, with a focus on improving the customer experience for every collector.

Platform Engineering Team: Our dynamic Internal Platform team builds and maintains a robust and scalable platform that underpins Collectors’ engineering teams by providing IT, Networking, CloudOps, DevOps, Database, and QA best practices in turn enabling rapid, secure, and stable application delivery. You will build secure automation capabilities that enable our application and data engineers to unveil their products to the world. Their goal is to create a platform to make a product smart, secure, and fast. If you are ready to bring your skills to work alongside their team of engineers, you’ll be working hands-on in the cloud with some of the newest technologies out there.

What You’ll Do:

• Collaborate with the Infrastructure, App Development, and Security teams to help design and implement a CI/CD integration platform that includes automated infrastructure, CI/CD workflow, integrated change management, security control/testing, monitoring, and feedback loops.
• Provide mentorship to junior DevOps and Application engineers and take ownership of DevOps processes and automation.
• Assist AppDev teams to build their own Infrastructure and Application build and release pipelines.
• Manage and deploy best in class ArgoCD applications.
• Assist teams as needed to enhance their pipelines such as incorporating automated change and release management requirements.
• Enhance existing pipelines with artifacts consisting of the Node Js and .NET tech stack (C#, .NET and/or .NET Core, SQL), Powershell scripts, IIS endpoints, and Kubernetes clusters.
• Support team following well-defined Agile practices and executing SDLC tasks such as code merge, build and release operations that also include administration and maintenance of tools supporting these efforts.
• Support CI/CD and associated tools in pipelines for development and production environments.
• Responsible for governance and support of tools and DevSecOps processes.
• Responsible for writing and executing automation scripts.
• Work with different development teams on an ongoing basis to help them improve their CI/CD pipelines and models.
• Research, learn, and help adopt new CI/CD tools and develop techniques to increase the deployment framework's performance, automation, and scalability.
• Research and stay current in AWS, Azure, associated technology and vendor products, and their interdependencies.
• Collaborate as part of larger delivery teams which may include project managers, business analysts, architects, developers, and change management professionals.
• Migrate On-Prem file server images, and manage and monitor AWS S3 usage.
• Design, improve, and implement build and release pipelines.
• Manage organizational AWS accounts and resource sharing.
• Collaborate with CloudOps, DBAs, and Software Engineering teams to solve problems.
• Maintain high availability of Continuous Integration/Continuous Delivery infrastructure.

Who You Are:

• 5+ years of progressively responsible DevOps experience.
• 4+ years of direct experience building end-to-end CI/CD pipelines using some of the popular platforms (i.e., Jenkins, GitHub Actions, CircleCI)
• 4+ years of AWS cloud experience is mandatory (GCP is a plus). AWS experience should include Computing (EC2, Lambda, Containers), Networking (DNS, VPC, TGW), Storage (S3, EBS, EFS) and Database (RDS, DynamoDB).
• 4+ years of experience in managing large-scale Infrastructure-as-Code stacks using Terraform (or CloudFormation)
• Kubernetes and Docker experience is mandatory
• Bilingual in English and Spanish

What we Offer:

• The opportunity to be a part of our inaugural Guadalajara, Mexico office and to make a real impact on the launch and success of this team.
• A dynamic and collaborative international engineering team
• An organization dedicated to supporting the passionate Collectors community
• A Competitive salary and benefits

Location:

Employees will be expected to work several days at our Guadalajara office location, which will be in Midtown Guadalajara.