Platform Engineer III

About the Role

Build automation and maintain Platform Services to support product development and data analytics initiatives. Develop and maintain strong customer relationships to ensure effective service delivery and customer satisfaction. Interact with customers regularly to refine requirements, gain agreement on solutions and deliverables, report progress, monitor satisfaction, resolve concerns and conflicts, and seek cooperation to achieve mutual objectives.

Responsibilities

• Deploy, manage, and maintain Platform Services such as Elastic/OpenSearch, Hazelcast, Hashicorp Vault, and Sonatype.
• Provision infrastructure including Kubernetes clusters, servers, networking, storage, and cloud infrastructure.
• Develop automation scripts and tooling using IT automation tools.
• Monitor system performance to analyze performance, security, and reliability.
• Integrate security and compliance into the platform with encryption and access management.
• Document configurations and processes for cross-team understanding.
• Deploy infrastructure as code and applications using automation and orchestration tools in both on-premises and cloud environments.
• Create, maintain, and track designs (high and detailed levels) with issue resolution.
• Research current and emerging technologies and propose changes where needed.

Requirements

• BS Degree and/or equivalent work experience in a technical discipline.
• Minimum of 7 years of experience in advanced technical roles.
• Very strong experience using configuration management, automation, and orchestration tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or similar.
• Very strong experience in building, managing, and maintaining Kubernetes platforms such as OpenShift, EKS, or GKE.
• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS) products such as EC2, S3, and EKS.
• Knowledge of Linux.
• Understanding of GitOps and ability to utilize Git with a strong grasp of merging and branching code.
• Experience writing YAML and JSON.
• Familiarity setting up event monitoring and alerting in Prometheus, Dynatrace, SolarWinds, or similar.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience administering one or more of the following technologies: Hazelcast, Elastic/OpenSearch, Hashicorp Vault, Sonatype.
• Experience in automating cloud deployments in AWS and/or GCP.
• Strong knowledge of Linux.
• Strong scripting background in Bash or Python.
• Able to create monitoring dashboards using Grafana or Dynatrace.
• Experience with ArgoCD.
• Experience with VMWare Virtualization.
• Critical thinking and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent listening, communication, written, and oral skills.