Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

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Remote, USA

Our client is a rapidly-growing, profitable startup with a diverse, talented engineering team that is distributed across the US, Canada, and Latin America.

They create private professional networks helping executive leaders in the tech industry. Executives at high-growth tech companies often encounter problems they have never faced before. They need to make critical decisions with limited information or subject matter expertise, while the survival of their enterprise hangs in the balance. When this happens, who do they turn to?  Their peers.

About the Role

As a Senior Platform Engineer, your primary focus will be on increasing developer productivity and reducing extraneous cognitive load. You will continuously examine their entire software development lifecycle, from source to production, and build workflows that enable application engineers to rapidly develop and deploy software.

You will leverage your knowledge of AWS services, systems administration, continuous integration, container orchestration, observability, and network security to create robust self-service infrastructure that enables application engineers to focus on product development.

Technical Skills:

In order to do this job, a solid foundation in the following areas is required:

  • Cloud infrastructure
  • Continuous integration
  • Container orchestration
  • Automation

You will have an edge if your are well versed in the specific technologies they use:

  • AWS services (RDS, EC2, ELB, SES, ECR, S3, SQS, SNS)
  • GitHub Actions
  • Docker / Rancher / Kubernetes
  • Python / shell scripts

Some key concepts you should be familiar with include:

  • Systems administration
  • Network security
  • Logging / monitoring / observability
  • Debugging / troubleshooting (Linux)

Pluses:

  • Terraform / Terraform CDK
  • Serverless architecture
  • Data engineering

Our clients are equal opportunity employers and value diversity. They do not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, age, marital status, veteran status, or disability status.

Compensation:

$175,000.00

Job #

472

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