Platform Engineer III

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
• Build 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

Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans
• Employee Stock Purchase Program (ESPP)
• 401K program with company match
• Health Savings Account (HSA) on the HDHP plan
• SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions
• Corporate discount savings program and other discounts
• On-demand training program, certification prep, and access to technical and leadership courses/books/seminars
• Certification discounts and other perks to associations like CompTIA and IIBA
• Dedicated customer service team for questions about benefits and other resources
• Certified Career Coach

Pay

$60-$68 per hour

Schedule

6 months