Principal Platform Engineer
United States of America
Contract
3 weeks ago
No H1B
Key skills
PythonTypescriptGolangBash scriptingPowershell scriptingSecurityDNSVPNCloud platformsLoad balancingSystems administrationLinuxWindowsAWSAzureGCPCI/CDServerless architectureContainer-based architectureInfrastructure as CodeCloud orchestrationApplication orchestrationJenkinsMonitoringLoggingSource Control ManagementTCPdumpNetwork flow security analysisMetric collection between microservicesFederated authenticationSingle Sign-OnAutonomous contributionPeer review involvementFluency in DevOps principlesFluency in Agile practicesTypeScriptBashPowerShellServerlessSSOLoad BalancingAgile
About this role
United Software Group Inc is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer who specializes in the development and deployment of enterprise applications. The role involves utilizing custom accelerators to enhance the delivery platform for application developers, ensuring efficient and error-free software releases.
Responsibilities:
- Quickly be steeped in a suite of custom accelerators which include:
- Continuously tested & delivered Infrastructure, Pipeline, and Policy as Code
- Extensible automation & dependency management code frameworks
- Development of event driven functions, APIs, backend services, Command Language Interfaces, and Self-Service Developer Portals
- We eat our own dog food; all your work will be covered with unit, security, governance, and functional testing utilizing appropriate frameworks
- Armed with these accelerators you will be among the first on the ground to customize and deploy the delivery platform that will enable the application developers that follow us to rapidly create, demonstrate, and deliver value sprint over sprint for much of the Global Fortune 500
Requirements:
- 1+ years coding in either Python, Typescript, or Golang
- 1+ years scripting experience in bash or powershell
- 6+ years of networking experience (security, DNS, VPN, Cloud, load balancing)
- 6+ years of systems administration experience with at least one operating system (Linux or Windows)
- 5+ years' experience with one of the following public cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, or GCP)
- 4+ years of CI/CD experience
- 4+ years of serverless or container-based architecture experience
- 4+ years of Infrastructure as code (IAC) experience
- Can autonomously contribute to cloud and application orchestration code and actively involved in peer reviews
- Can deploy and manage the common tools we use (Jenkins, monitoring, logging, SCM, etc) from code
- Advance networking (tcpdump, network flow security analysis, can collect and understand metric between microservices)
- Experience with advance authentication technologies (federated auth, SSO)
- Fluent in DevOps principles and patterns
- Fluent in Agile practices