DevopsPlatform Engineer

Devops/Platform Engineer with Data-FocusRemoteOnly on W2

Rate- $45-$55/hr on W2

Job Description:

As a Sr Engineer you will be considered a technical expert in one or more phases of application and/or systems engineering. This includes providing design recommendations based on long-term IT organization strategy and expertise regarding the integration of applications across the business. You will determine specifications plan design and develop business critical software solutions utilizing appropriate software engineering processes - either individually or in concert with product team.

Designing Solutions

Apply technical knowledge to drive outcomes for customers

Ability to work and problem solve independently on initiatives that align and supports the broader software engineering strategy

Implementing Solutions

Member of team that can work independently as well as collaboratively with team in developing core processes and automation for the product that delivers outcomes.

Consistent and dependable in delivering core processes and automation that delivers outcomes and meets/exceeds the teams expectations for stability scalability resilience etc.

Learning and Applying New Techniques

Shares new ideas and techniques with team; Encourages other engineers to invest in learning as a part of their job.

Collaborating within the Team

Participate in teams collaboration sessions to provide technical expertise to solve a problem/remove technical roadblocks for the team

Participate in product planning and implementation. Helps team to understand and decompose work

Defining Engineering Standards and Patterns

Contribute to develop engineering practices templates and frameworks in collaboration with the team.

DevOps

Continuously assessing technology to build more stable scalable and resilient software; Use data to measure progress

Promote and expand on the use of the CI/CD pipeline to improve the deployment and build process.

Participates in the team support rotation and provides expert knowledge on focus subsystems.

Selecting & Managing Technology Vendors

Contribute to define the selection criteria for selecting the right technology vendors

Participate in proof of concept / technology along with the vendor

Coaching Engineers

Provide guidance to the engineering community to assist with optimal plaform utilization.

Provide technical expertise and help the team to solve technical/software issues.

Provide domain expertise on platform products in their area to engineering community to help them learn/grow their skills.

Education

Required:

Bachelors degree in Computer Science or other technical field or equivalent work experience

Required Work Experience / Skills

8 years of experience in engineering environments taking abstract concepts and ideas and formulating a detailed software engineering plan to deliver

Sound knowledge of industry standard Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC) practices

Sound knowledge of version and revision control practices and procedures

Sound knowledge of systems design concepts that provide security and stability

Expertise in debugging code and/or complex log files for troubleshooting and analysis of product defects

Perform code reviews with team members

Preferred Work Experience / Skills

Kubernetes cluster administration (OpenShift preferred)

Sound knowledge of Linux Environments (RHEL CentOS and/or Fedora)

Java Web Application Server Administration (Apache Tomcat Tanzu TC Server and/or IBM Websphere preferred)

Apache HTTP Server Administration

AWS Experience (EC2 and/or Lambda)

Intermediate script writing (Bash and/or Python)

Sound knowledge automation tools(Ansible Terraform and/or GitHub Actions)

Configuring and analyzing telemetry from observability tools (DataDog ELK and/or Prometheus)As a Sr Engineer you will be considered a technical expert in one or more phases of application and/or systems engineering. This includes providing design recommendations based on long-term IT organization strategy and expertise regarding the integration of applications across the business. You will determine specifications plan design and develop business critical software solutions utilizing appropriate software engineering processes - either individually or in concert with product team.

Benefits: Health insurance options 401(k) retirement savings options statutory benefits and other benefits may be available to eligible employees in accordance with applicable law and company policy. Immigration and work authorization support as well as professional development opportunities may also be available for eligible roles subject to business needs client requirements and applicable law.