Senior Platform Engineer / Software EngineerOur client is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer / Software Engineer to join their engineering team. Perfect for a skilled software engineer who also has cloud and infrastructure experiences and looking to grow! Great opportunity for software tooling!Required Skills:PythonPlatform engineeringInfrastructure As CodeAutomationMust have a software engineering/problem solving background.Job Duties:Platform Engineering: highly proficient with tools like Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform; deep experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automating deployments, and managing infrastructure as codeStrong scripting abilities, particularly in Python and shell scripting, for automation, data manipulation, and system administration tasksArchitecting and building internal software tools.
Must have a software engineering/problem solving background.Experience with Distributed Systems and Microservices: The roles and responsibilities involve working with complex, distributed systems and microservices architecturesStrong understanding of CI/CD including deployment automation, configuration management, test, and source code/git repositoriesExperience with containers and orchestrationExperience with NoSQL and SQL databases, including at an administration and architecture levelExperience and preference for working within an Agile/Scrum environmentExperience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana for example) and the ability to diagnose and resolve performance and availability issues in distributed systemsA strong history of diving in and solving complex problemsJob Requirements:8 years software engineering4+ years of software engineering in App Dev capacity4+ years of automation and scripting using Python8+ years of experience building automation/configuration management infrastructure such as Ansible, Terraform, Chef, and/or Puppet8+ years of experience of building CI/CD pipelines6+ years of experience with deployment of production code leveraging Docker containersExperience using cloud services (AWS and Azure preferred); public cloud IaaS and PaaS servicesExperience with large-scale distributed systems architectures. Examples include Java/Spring Boot, CQRS, event streaming, Kafka, Spark Knowledge in databasesDesired Skills & Experience:Streaming platforms such as Kafka/NATS/Kinesis/Event HubDatabricks/Apache SparkElastic SearchApigeeDatadog/New Relic