Senior Platform Engineer

Job Title: Senior Platform Engineer Location: Seattle, WA - hybrid 3 days per week (Locals only)
Employment Type: contract
Duration: 6+ Months
About VLink: Started in 2006 and headquartered in Connecticut, VLink is one of the fastest growing digital technology services and consulting companies. Since its inception, our innovative team members have been solving the most complex business, and IT challenges of our global clients.
Job Description:
MUST HAVE: IAAS (infrastructure as code), Python/Platform Engineering,
Our client is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer / Software Engineer to join their engineering team. Perfect for a skilled software engineer who also has cloud and infrastructure experiences and looking to grow! Great opportunity for software tooling!
Required Skills -
Python, Platform engineering, Infrastructure As Code, Automation
Job Duties -
Platform Engineering: highly proficient with tools like Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform; deep experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automating deployments, and managing infrastructure as code
Strong scripting abilities, particularly in Python and shell scripting, for automation, data manipulation, and system administration tasks
Architecting and building internal software tools. Must have a software engineering/problem solving background.
Experience with Distributed Systems and Microservices: The roles and responsibilities involve working with complex, distributed systems and microservices architectures
Strong understanding of CI/CD including deployment automation, configuration management, test, and source code/git repositories
Experience with containers and orchestration
Experience with NoSQL and SQL databases, including at an administration and architecture level
Experience and preference for working within an Agile/Scrum environment
Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana for example) and the ability to diagnose and resolve performance and availability issues in distributed systems
A strong history of diving in and solving complex problems
Job Requirements -
8 years software engineering
4+ years of software engineering in App Dev capacity
4+ years of automation and scripting using Python
8+ years of experience building automation/configuration management infrastructure such as Ansible, Terraform, Chef, and/or Puppet
8+ years of experience of building CI/CD pipelines
6+ years of experience with deployment of production code leveraging Docker containers
Experience using cloud services (AWS and Azure preferred); public cloud IaaS and PaaS services
Experience with large-scale distributed systems architectures. Examples include Java/Spring Boot, CQRS, event streaming, Kafka, Spark Knowledge in databases

Employment Practices:
EEO, ADA, FMLA Compliant
VLink is an equal opportunity employer. At VLink, we are committed to embracing diversity, multiculturalism, and inclusion. VLink does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law. All aspects of employment including the decision to hire, promote, or discharge, will be decided on the basis of qualifications, merit, performance, and business needs.