Platform Engineer IV
United States of America
Full Time
2 hours ago
0H1B Sponsor Likely
Key skills
Software DevelopmentPHPRubyPythonJavaScriptElixirGoCloud ProvidersAWSDigital OceanGoogle CloudAutomation SoftwarePuppetAnsibleOrchestration SoftwareDocker SwarmKubernetesProduction Scale AdministrationLinux AdministrationIT Security Best PracticesComputer NetworksETLAnalyticsSparkKafkaHadoopDocker
About this role
V-Soft Consulting is currently hiring for a Platform Engineer IV (Remote) for their premier client. The role involves maintaining platform uptime, performance, and scalability, while developing and maintaining APIs and supporting analytics and monitoring systems.
Responsibilities:
- Maintain the company platform uptime, performance, stability, and scalability
- Develop and maintain a public API
- Design, guide, mentor and challenge system architecture and design with others
- Building tools and processes to support analytics, monitoring, machine-learning and data-warehousing platforms
- 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
- 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
Requirements:
- Experience in software/systems development
- Working knowledge of at least one of the following languages: PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Elixir, Go or comparable
- Strong experience with cloud providers such as AWS, Digital Ocean, Google Cloud, etc
- Experience with automation/configuration software (puppet, ansible), and/or orchestration software (docker swarm, Kubernetes, etc.)
- Experience with administration of production scale
- Strong software development background, experience building software systems
- Strong background in Linux administration
- Strong understanding of IT security best practices
- Understanding of computer networks