Description:

Technical Skills Preferred:

Experience with IT Automation products such as Terraform, Ansible, etc.

Experience with AWS Services.

Experience with network load balancers (NLB, ALB).

Exceptional technical writing skills (run books, DR plans, platform architecture, etc.)

Requirements:

This Platform Engineer position will design and provision Jenkins Infrastructure such as EC2 ( AWS ) and EKS supporting cloud native applications alongside a geographically distributed team.
Emphasis will be on container strategies and ecosystem (Kubernetes) supporting rapidly increasing data and compute requirements.
This role will have the opportunity to drive and shape new solutions and feature capability that improve our Kubernetes platform’s developer experience (reducing toil and complexity) and requires a wide breadth of skills and experience in-order to develop application hosting platforms and strategies.

Responsibilities

Develop automation (Pipelines/Operators) to support platform management and end user capabilities
Engineering of new platform feature capabilities
Research / prove-outs of new technologies to extend platform functionality and increase ease-of-use and developer barrier to entry
Lifecycle management (Upgrades / Maintenance) and support of all Kubernetes clusters (EKS) as well as AWS ( EC2) deployed globally
This position requires a wide breadth of skills and experience in-order to develop application hosting platforms and strategies.

Technical Skills Required:

Bachelors in Computer Science or related field or equivalent work experience
(5+ years) Strong Linux knowledge on multiple platforms (RHEL, Ubuntu, SUSE).
(5+ years) Experience in use of Kubernetes.
(5+ years) Experience in use of container technologies.
(5+ years) In-depth use of Cloud-based PaaS and IaaS. AWS experience preferred.
(5+ years) Experience with GIT and CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, Groovy Script/ Python/ ansible and Terraform
Experience using PaaS solutions
Demonstrable proficiency in at least one programming or scripting language. Python/Bash Shell preferred.
Demonstrated knowledge of RESTFUL API concepts and Yaml formats.