Platform Engineer

  • Washington, DC
  • Posted 23 hours ago | Updated moments ago

Overview

On Site
Hybrid
BASED ON EXPERIENCE
Full Time
Contract - W2
Contract - Independent
Contract - 11+ mo(s)

Skills

PALTFORM ENGINEER
DEVOPS CLOUD ENGINEER
DEVELOPER 2000
INFRASTRUCTURE
LINUX
UNIX
SHELL
CLOUD
AZURE
AWS
OPENSTACK
CONTAINERS
DOCKER
KUBERNETES
TERRAFORM
ANSIBLE
CHEF
SPARK
CI/CD
JENKINS
ARGOCD
GITHUB
TOP SECRET
DOD
CLEARENCE

Job Details

Role: Platform Engineer
Location: Washington, DC, Hybrid
Duration: 12 months
Exp.

Description:
Our client is looking for Platform Engineers / Architects who contributes to the design and implementation of a software engineering culture that unifies Application Development and Operations. One who will assist in engineering solutions that maximize the throughput of code releases through automated, secure and portable tools and functions.

Responsibilities:

  • Participates in the analysis, design and development of technical classifications, programming, and testing of DevOps components.
  • Hands-on experience with Kubernetes (admin / dev) is must.
  • Participates in design and scripting reviews to ensure that design and enterprise programming standards and guidelines are followed.
  • Assist with creating or updating the enterprise standards when gaps are identified.
  • Assists team members in issue resolution, scalability metrics, integration issues, and critical production issues as required.
  • Follows technology best practices and standards and escalates any issues as they deem appropriate.
  • Follows architecture and design best practices (as guided by the Senior Engineer, Lead DevOps Engineer & Architectural team).
  • Responsible for assisting in configuration and scripting to implement fully automated infrastructure provisioning, image builds, and instance deployment capabilities.
  • Follows standard change control and configuration management practices.
  • Participates in 24-hour on-call rotation in support of the platform.
Required Skills/Qualifications
  • Drive and desire to automate repeatable processes
  • Excellent interpersonal skills and communication, as well as the willingness to collaborate with teams across the organization
  • Experience in DevOps practices, infrastructure, scripting/ programming.
  • Linux/ Unix OS experience
  • Kubernetes experience
  • KCNA, CKA, and/or CKAD certification highly preferred.
  • Experience working with Kubernetes in an Enterprise environment
  • Working knowledge of cloud technologies (eg. OpenStack, Azure, AWS, etc.), container concepts (eg. Docker), infrastructure deployment tools (eg. Ansible, Chef, Terraform), CI/CD tools (eg. ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)
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