Platform Engineer III

Eliassen Group; United States; Remote; Confidential; Full time

Job summary

A leading technology consultancy is seeking a talented software developer to work on a fully remote basis. The role involves building robust software solutions and maintaining the company's infrastructure while collaborating with data scientists and operations teams. Candidates should have a strong background in software development, IT security, and cloud services. A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science or equivalent experience is required.

Benefits

Medical benefits

Dental benefits

Vision benefits

401k with company matching

Life insurance

Qualifications

• Experience in software/systems development.
• Strong software development background with at least one language: PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Elixir, Go or comparable.
• Experience with automation/configuration and understanding of networks.

Responsibilities

• Maintain company platform uptime, performance, stability, and scalability.
• Develop and maintain a public API.
• Work with big data technology (Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, etc).

Skills

Software Development

Linux Administration

IT Security Best Practices

Cloud Providers

Network Understanding

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Tools

Puppet

Ansible

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Description:

*100% Remote*

Responsible for building outstanding software solutions to drive the success of a business. Build various aspects of the company's infrastructure to power innumerable conversations at scale.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance.

Rate: $60 - $70 / hr. w2

Responsibilities:

• Maintain the company platform uptime, performance, stability, and scalability

• Design, guide, mentor and challenge system architecture and design with others

• Develop and maintain a public API

• Develop best possible, most robust, and extensible solutions from feature requests

• Work with big data technology (Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, etc)

• Work with Data Scientists to develop rich value-added features

• Work with DBA to create ETL and Data Warehouse system

• Work with Operations to automate solutions and increase service reliability

• Closely monitor all platform related production systems

• Building tools and processes to support analytics, monitoring, machine-learning and data-warehousing platforms.

• Define and implement various strategies covering everything from subnets to backups to fog networking/computing configuration and deployments.

• Provision, configure, maintain, backup, and monitor onsite and cloud based server resources.

• Define and implement deployment strategies for client-facing and internal tool systems.

• Continual improvement and fine-tuning of various alerting and monitoring systems. Qualifications:

Experience Requirements:

• Experience in software/systems development.

• Strong software development background, experience building software systems.

• Working knowledge of at least one of the following languages: PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Elixir, Go or comparable.

• Strong background in Linux administration.

• Strong experience with cloud providers such as AWS, Digital Ocean, Google Cloud, etc.

• Strong understanding of IT security best practices.

• Experience with automation/configuration software (puppet, ansible), and/or orchestration software (docker swarm, kubernetes, etc).

• Understanding of computer networks.

• Experience with administration of at production scale.

Education Requirements:

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or related years of experience