Platform Engineer(m/f/d)
Amadora (Amadora) IT development
Job description
As a leader in transport solutions for more than 160 years, Siemens Mobility is constantly innovating its portfolio in its core areas of rolling stock, rail automation and electrification, turnkey systems, intelligent traffic systems as well as related services. With digitalization, Siemens Mobility is enabling mobility operators worldwide to make infrastructure intelligent, increase value sustainably over the entire lifecycle, enhance passenger experience and guarantee availability.
Mobility Management, Turnkey Projects & Electrification, Mainline Transport, Urban Transport and Customer Services. They have the know-how to make road traffic flow more smoothly and quickly, make trains more environmentally friendly and efficient, make train schedules and freight shipments more reliable. We work with our customers to develop optimal solutions to help overcome their challenges.
Our Platform Engineers design robust, reliable, and resilient infrastructures to support our customer’s signalling systems, complying with the demanding standards that must be fulfilled in railway projects. They analyse customer’s needs, requirements, and products’ application conditions, in order to specify the adequate hardware platform on which the system should run to achieve the best performance. They define the redundancy and high availability mechanisms that will provide the system with adequate reliability and resilience. They prepare the automatic deployment mechanisms to easily configure the equipment that will be delivered to the customer. The Platform Engineer configures and fine-tunes the underlaying Linux OS, hardens the system, carries out vulnerability analysis and manages security patching in such a critical infrastructure. Join our team and we will foster your continuing professional development and an exchange with colleagues from all over the world. One thing is certain: your ideas will not be filed away, but almost always find their way into company practice. Worldwide.
Main Activities and Responsibilities:
- Report progress of platform activities in projects
- Ensure the assigned activities are done according to projects goals and schedule plans
- Ensure the assigned design, implementation, tests and commissioning activities are done according to project requirements
- Participation in the traceability of requirements of the project
- Create technical specifications
- Participate in the generation of the system’s hardware architecture and the bill of materials for the project
- Participate in the making of the different platform design documents and drawings
- Generate and manage design change requests
- Create deployment mechanisms, Preproduction environments, and testing and commissioning procedures
- Implementation, test and commissioning of hardware and software solutions
- System administration and support during project’s execution phase
- Production of manuals and training documentation
- Provide customer training
- Provide support to the installation and maintenance works
- Communicate and collaborate with other engineering teams and Mobility departments
- Identify areas of innovation, opportunities for process improvement and cost reduction
- Contribute to evolve traditional industrial architectures to modern, virtualized and cloud infrastructures
Job Requirements:
- University or Bachelor’s degree in Electronics/Computer/Telecommunications Engineering or equivalent degree
- Knowledge or work experience in railway or industrial systems and technologies
- Great verbal and written communication skills in English
- Availability to travel internationally
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills
- Ability to foster effective work in a cross-functional, multinational and diverse environment
- Multi-tasking and prioritization skills
- Continuous improvement mind-set as a must
- Goal driven with customer orientation and teamwork skills
- Proactive, self-driven and autonomous work
- Ability to understand and assess large SCADA-type systems which integrate heterogeneous products and subsystems in industrial environments
- IT infrastructures knowledge: workstations, servers, clustering and High Availability IT architectures, application servers (JBoss), SQL databases, SAN storage, NAS, network protocols, etc.
- Experience in designing, architecting, deploying, and administrating systems based on GNU/Linux (RHEL/CentOS distros) and MS Windows machines
- Strong knowledge in Linux System Administration, both physical and virtualized: Shell Scripting, bash, automation, performance tuning, monitoring
- Cybersecurity-related knowledge: Linux OS hardening, SElinux, SSL/TLS, firewalling, vulnerability management, security patching, PKI, MS Windows GPOs, antimalware protection, Active Directory
- Virtualization: VMware
- Microservices architecture, Kubernetes, Dockers, Openshift
- Cloud architecture knowledge: On Premise Cloud, Public Cloud (AWS, Azure, Google Cloud)
- Programming knowledge: C, Java, Python
What do we offer?
- Attractive remuneration package
- New Working Concept, hybrid work model
- Free Health Insurance
- Possibility to subscribe to Siemens Pension Plan and Siemens Share Program
- Free medical services in campus
- Gym classes at Alfragide Campus & Sports Groups
- Two volunteering days per year
- Canteen at our campus with different options to choose from
- Access to Siemens Leaming Platform that allows access to internal courses and other platforms such as Coursera, GetAbstract Harvard Business Review Linkedin, and others
- Exclusive discounts on Siemens, Bosch and Balay brands
If this opportunity seems interesting to you, please send us your application in English and we will get back to you!