Overview
Hybrid
$125,000 - $200,000
Full Time
Skills
Python
Terraform
Job Details
No C2C
No sponsorship at this time for this position
Our client is looking for a Platform Engineer to spearhead the development, implementation and maintenance of automation and other critical portals and tools. This role will be instrumental in driving significant productivity enhancements for our internal IT teams, leveraging expertise in automation workflows, frameworks, and cross-functional leadership.
Job Requirements
- Create, maintain, and track designs (at high and detailed design levels) with issue resolution.
- Lead and mentor a high-performing team through major initiatives identified by IT leadership.
- Assist in architecting solutions based on requirements set forth by IT leadership.
- Identify new/emerging technologies for adoption and drive consistent code reviews.
- Continually research current and emerging technologies and propose changes where needed.
- Developing automation scripts and tooling.
- Monitoring system performance to analyze performance, security, and reliability.
- Integrating security and compliance into the platform with encryption and access management.
- Documenting configurations and processes so different teams understand how to use the same platform.
- Deploy infrastructure as code and applications using automation and orchestration tools in both on-premises and cloud environments.
Min. Requirements
- BS Degree and or equivalent work experience in a technical discipline.
- A minimum of 6 years of experience as a Platform Engineer.
- A minimum of 1 year of experience leading and mentoring a high-performing engineering team.
- Working experience using configuration management, automation, and orchestration tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or similar.
- Experience in building, managing, and maintaining containerization platforms such as OpenShift or Kubernetes.
- Strong knowledge of Linux (RHEL) and some Windows.
- Experience with VMware virtualization.
- Experience in automating cloud deployments in AWS, Google Cloud Platform, and/or Azure.
- Strong scripting background in Bash or Python is a plus.
- Strong development skills in JavaScript, Go, or another object-oriented language is a plus.
- Able to utilize version control tools like Git along with a strong understanding of merging and branching code.
- Able to work in GitLab.
- Experience writing YAML and JSON.
- Able to create monitoring dashboards using Dynatrace or Openshift or similar.
- Familiarity with setting up event monitoring and alerting in Prometheus, Solarwinds, or similar.
Nice to have:
- Possess critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
- Must possess excellent listening and communication skills.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills
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