Platform Engineer

Description:

• Contributes to the design and implementation of a software engineering culture that unifies Application Development and Operations. 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 specifications programming and testing of DevOps components.
• 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 24hour oncall 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
• OpenShift experience
• Kubernetes experience

Desired Skills/Qualifications

• KCNA CKA and/or CKAD certification
• Experience working with Kubernetes in an Enterprise environment.
• Working knowledge of cloud technologies (e.g. OpenStack Azure AWS etc.) container concepts (e.g. Docker) infrastructure deployment tools (e.g. Ansible Chef Terraform) CI/CD tools (e.g. ArgoCD Jenkins GitHub Actions)