Platform Engineer - Corporate IT (Kansas City)

Kansas City, MO, US • Posted 3 days ago • Updated 3 hours ago
Full Time
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Skills

  • DevOps
  • MEAN Stack
  • ProVision
  • Customer Service
  • Productivity
  • Service Level
  • Network
  • Systems Design
  • Systems Engineering
  • IaaS
  • Amazon Web Services
  • Google Cloud
  • Google Cloud Platform
  • Microsoft Azure
  • Terraform
  • Provisioning
  • Bash
  • Windows PowerShell
  • Git
  • Workflow
  • TCP/IP
  • Computer Networking
  • DNS
  • Dragon NaturallySpeaking
  • Continuous Integration
  • Continuous Delivery
  • Microsoft Office
  • Communication
  • Critical Thinking
  • Conflict Resolution
  • Problem Solving
  • Attention To Detail
  • Facilitation
  • Team Building
  • Collaboration
  • Python
  • React.js
  • Software Development
  • Vulnerability Management
  • Cloud Computing
  • Scripting
  • Management
  • SAP BASIS
  • Information Technology
  • Marketing Operations

Summary

Description

The Staff Platform Engineer focuses on delivering platforms and relentlessly improving developer experience. They automate processes and develop self-service capabilities around infrastructure and application delivery. They serve as an escalation point for junior engineers.
  • Uses DevOps practices and thinking to guide automation efforts across infrastructure provisioning and application delivery and deployment activities.
  • Works to increase deployment frequency, decrease failure change rate, decrease the mean time to recover (MTTR), and decrease lead time.
  • Writes code to provision infrastructure and deploy applications.
  • Focuses on customer service and using empathy to improve developer experience.
  • Builds trust with teams participating in conversations about new practices. Relentlessly works to eliminate pain points and remove process bottlenecks.
  • Takes work break downs from other team members asking questions to clarify requirements and acceptance criteria.
  • Comfortable with some degree of ambiguity and change.
  • Collaboratively uses tools that improve developer productivity--especially focusing on tools that are part of CI/CD processes that improve the speed and safety of deployment pipelines through the software development lifecycle.
  • Uses SLOs (service level objectives) to define SLIs (service level indicators) to observe application and infrastructure health, and for troubleshooting infrastructure and applications.
  • Commitment to continuous learning and improvement.
  • All other duties as assigned.

Qualifications
  • Bachelor's degree in technology, business, or a related field from an accredited program is required and 4 years (5 years preferred) in infrastructure and network systems design, deployment and management, system engineering, or related experience required.
  • Applicable years of experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.
  • Experience building cloud infrastructure in AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure.
  • Need experience with IaC (Infrastructure as Code) tools like Terraform or Pulumi for provisioning resources is strongly preferred.
  • Experience scripting tasks using Bash, Python, PowerShell, Go, or similar languages.
  • Familiarity with Git and workflows for reviewing and releasing code.
  • Experience with TCP/IP networking, DNS, and Certificate management
  • Familiarity with CI/CD processes and tools for building and deploying application code.
  • Strong computer skills (e.g., Microsoft Office Suite).
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Ability to partner on work and resolve issues in a team environment.
  • Demonstrated critical thinking skills and ability to work methodically and analytically in a problem-solving environment.
  • Strong attention to detail, facilitation, team building and collaboration.
  • Experience with Python and React software development.
  • Experience with security systems and policies and experience in vulnerability management and remediation.
  • Experience with cloud technologies, automation scripts and infrastructure management.

This job posting will remain open a minimum of 72 hours and on an ongoing basis until filled.

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Primary Location US-MO-Kansas City

Schedule: Full-time

Travel: Yes, 5 % of the Time

Req ID: 261565

Job Hire Type Experienced #LI-MJ #COR N/A
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