Platform Engineer

ESPO; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 80,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

An innovative global EPC firm is seeking a Platform Engineer to enhance developer experience and automate infrastructure processes. This role focuses on improving deployment frequency and reducing failure rates while fostering a collaborative environment. The ideal candidate will have experience in cloud infrastructure, scripting, and CI/CD practices. Join a dynamic team where your contributions will directly impact the efficiency and effectiveness of application delivery. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced environment that values continuous learning and improvement.

Benefits

PTO

Group Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

401k Plan

Qualifications

• 4 years in infrastructure and network systems design, deployment and management.
• Experience building cloud infrastructure in AWS, GCP, or Azure.

Responsibilities

• Automate infrastructure provisioning and application delivery using DevOps practices.
• Collaborate with teams to improve developer experience and eliminate bottlenecks.

Skills

Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

AWS

Terraform

Scripting (Bash, Python, PowerShell)

CI/CD Processes

TCP/IP Networking

Git

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Technology

Associate's Degree

High School Diploma

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Git

Job description

PLATFORM ENGINEER

Location: Kansas City, MO.
Job type: Contract to Hire

All applicants must be eligible to work in the United States - no sponsorship or Corp to Corp is available for this position.

Our global EPC Firm client is hiring a Platform Engineer for contract-to-hire opportunity in their Corporate IT team in Kansas City, MO.

The Staff Platform Engineer focuses on delivering platforms and relentlessly improving developer experience. They automate processes and develop self-service capabilities around infrastructure and application delivery. They serve as an escalation point for junior engineers.
RESPONSIBILITIES

• Uses DevOps practices and thinking to guide automation efforts across infrastructure provisioning and application delivery and deployment activities. Works to increase deployment frequency, decrease failure change rate, decrease the mean time to recover (MTTR), and decrease lead time.
• Writes code to provision infrastructure and deploy applications.
• Focuses on customer service and using empathy to improve developer experience. Builds trust with teams participating in conversations about new practices. Relentlessly works to eliminate pain points and remove process bottlenecks.
• Takes work break downs from other team members asking questions to clarify requirements and acceptance criteria. Comfortable with some degree of ambiguity and change.
• Collaboratively uses tools that improve developer productivity--especially focusing on tools that are part of CI/CD processes that improve the speed and safety of deployment pipelines through the software development lifecycle.
• Uses SLOs (service level objectives) to define SLIs (service level indicators) to observe application and infrastructure health. Uses that data for troubleshooting infrastructure and applications.
• Commitment to continuous learning and improvement.

REQUIREMENTS

• Bachelor's Degree in Technology, Business, or a related field from an accredited program and 4 years in infrastructure and network systems design, deployment and management, system engineering, or related experience
  • OR Applicable years of experience may be substituted for the degree requirement is required.
  • OR HS degree with 8 years' experience in infrastructure and network systems design, deployment and management, system engineering, or related experience.
  • OR Associate's Degree with 6 years' experience in infrastructure and network systems design, deployment and management, system engineering, or related experience.
• Experience building cloud infrastructure in AWS, GCP, or Azure. Need experience with IaC (Infrastructure as Code) tools like Terraform or Pulumi for provisioning resources.
• Experience scripting tasks using Bash, Python, PowerShell, Go, or similar languages.
• Familiarity with Git and workflows for reviewing and releasing code.
• Experience with TCP/IP networking, DNS, and Certificate management
• Familiarity with CI/CD processes and tools for building and deploying application code.

ESPO Corporation
Leaders in Technical Recruiting & Staffing since 1965

ESPO has a comprehensive benefits package which includes PTO, Group Health and Dental Insurance, and 401k after you have satisfied the necessary waiting periods.

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer and value the benefits of diversity in our workforce. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity and expression, national origin, disability, protected Veteran status, or any other attribute or protected characteristic by law. If you need assistance applying, please get in touch with us directly.