Platform Operations Engineer

Platform Operations Engineer

Job Summary: Talent Software Services is in search of a Platform Operations Engineer for a contract position in Reston, VA(Remote). The opportunity will be six months with a strong chance for a long-term extension.

Position Summary: As an Engineer on the Platform Operations team, you are a gifted technologist and problem solver. You understand cloud software delivery, tools, and processes that empower efficient and resilient delivery that adheres to top-notch development practices. You are technologically curious and seek out opportunities to research emerging technologies and trends, standards, and products. Your excellent communication and collaboration skills allow you to effectively articulate solutions to the development community, enabling all to succeed. You are communicative, approachable, self-driven, and collaborative.

Primary Responsibilities/Accountabilities:

• Design & Implementation (75%)
  • Build solutions using the best practices of Agile, CI/CD, and DevOps
  • Continuously develop the skills required to work as part of the agile team in a poly-skilled development environment
  • Write code to automate the infrastructure lifecycle, create and support internal tools utilizing IaC, and be able to use CLIs
  • Partner with domain SMEs (Delivery Team Software Engineers, Security, Infrastructure, Network, Observability, and Operations) to research, analyze, and implement features and capabilities
  • Contribute to the development and growth of the Cloud Engineering Program, through thought leadership, design, and implementation of tools and processes
• Team Operations & Success (25%)
  • Implement cloud-first architectural solutions and best practices
  • Participate in agile scrum ceremonies (Sprint Planning, Grooming, Daily SCRUM, Demo, Retro) and contribute to team deliverables
  • Participate in peer reviews of software engineering artifacts
  • Maintain, operate, and monitor Platform products and infrastructure
  • Assist in the identification and resolution of production and production-like issues
  • Ensure the team is adhering to development standards and security policies and procedures

Qualifications:

• 3 years of experience with Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD framework, immutable infrastructure, automation, orchestration, and other modern DevOps patterns
• Technical knowledge of Cloud Computing, DevOps, and Microservices
• Strong knowledge and experience with distributed cloud infrastructure within AWS
• Experience working with AWS resources such as Lambda, SNS, SQS, S3, Step Functions, EC2, ECS, VPC, IAM, CloudWatch, DynamoDB is a plus
• Experience building event-driven Cloud-based serverless applications
• Coding/scripting experience with Python, JavaScript, React.js, Node.js
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills with an ability to present ideas in business-friendly and user-friendly language
• Demonstrated ability to develop and maintain good customer working relationships
• Exceptional analytical, conceptual, and problem-solving abilities
• Ability to prioritize and execute tasks in a high-pressure environment