Platform Engineer

Overview

On Site
Depends on Experience
Contract - Independent
Contract - W2

Skills

API
Amazon Web Services
Analytics
Ansible
Apache Hadoop
Apache Kafka
Apache Spark
Backup
Backup Administration
Big Data
Cloud Computing
Computer Networking
Continuous Improvement
Customer Facing
Data Warehouse
Database Administration
DigitalOcean
Docker
Elixir
Extract
Transform
Load
Google Cloud
Google Cloud Platform
IT Security
JavaScript
Kubernetes
Linux Administration
Machine Learning (ML)
Mentorship
Orchestration
PHP
ProVision
Puppet
Python
Ruby
Scalability
Software Development
Systems Architecture
Systems Engineering

Job Details

Platform Engineer

Location: Cincinnati (Day 1 onsite)

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TECHNICAL SKILLS

Must Have

  • Ability to work with high level requirements
  • Business Analysis
  • Business Systems Analysis

Nice To Have

Job Summary:
Responsible for building outstanding software solutions to drive the success of a business. Build various aspects of the company's infrastructure to power innumerable conversations at scale.

Primary Responsibilities:
Maintain the company platform uptime, performance, stability, and scalability
Design, guide, mentor and challenge system architecture and design with others
Develop and maintain a public API
Develop best possible, most robust, and extensible solutions from feature requests
Work with big data technology (Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, etc)
Work with Data Scientists to develop rich value-added features
Work with DBA to create ETL and Data Warehouse system
Work with Operations to automate solutions and increase service reliability
Closely monitor all platform related production systems
Building tools and processes to support analytics, monitoring, machine-learning and data-warehousing platforms.
Define and implement various strategies covering everything from subnets to backups to fog networking/computing configuration and deployments.
Provision, configure, maintain, backup, and monitor onsite and cloud based server resources.
Define and implement deployment strategies for client-facing and internal tool systems.
Continual improvement and fine-tuning of various alerting and monitoring systems.

Qualifications:
Experience in software/systems development.
Strong software development background, experience building software systems.
Working knowledge of at least one of the following languages: PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Elixir, Go or comparable. Strong background in Linux administration.
Strong experience with cloud providers such as AWS, Digital Ocean, Google Cloud, etc.
Strong understanding of IT security best practices.
Experience with automation/configuration software (puppet, ansible), and/or orchestration software (docker swarm, kubernetes, etc).
Understanding of computer networks.
Experience with administration of at production scale.

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