Remote Senior Platform Engineer - Hybrid Cloud & Kubernetes

U.S. Xpress, Inc.; Chattanooga (TN); Remote; USD 106,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, Dental, Vision

Life insurance

Health Savings Accounts

Flexible Savings Accounts

Company Paid Holidays

Paid Time Off

401k with employer matching

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Short Term Incentive Program

Employee Assistance Program

Pet Insurance

Job summary

U.S. Xpress is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join the Unified Platform team. You will shape hybrid infrastructure and build platform capabilities that improve developer experience and speed to market, using Golang, IaC, and Kubernetes (EKS) at scale.

You will create GitHub Actions, deploy frameworks, backup/restore, and develop controllers for auto remediation while collaborating with IT, backend, frontend, mobile and data teams. Remote-friendly position.

Qualifications

• Bachelor of Science or equivalent required.
• 5-7 years relevant experience in platforms/DevOps.
• Experience with container platforms and hybrid cloud environments.

Responsibilities

• Create custom GitHub Actions for building applications.
• Develop modules to deploy apps to the platform.
• Develop framework to backup/restore from containers.
• Gain Kubernetes knowledge and develop auto-remediation controllers.
• Work with Terraform IaC for resource creation with reporting/monitoring.
• Mentor junior developers and share knowledge.
• Harden security while maintaining deployment ease.
• Collaborate across IT, backend, frontend, mobile and data teams.

Skills

Kubernetes

EKS

GitOps

Terraform

Bash

PowerShell

Observability

Security

Automation

Project leadership

Collaboration

Cost optimization

Education

Bachelor of Science or equivalent

Tools

AWS EKS

Talos

Rancher

Argo CD

Grafana

Prometheus

ELK stack

Fleet

Terraform

Kubernetes

CI/CD

Job description

U.S. Xpress is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to join the Unified Platform team. You will shape hybrid infrastructure and build platform capabilities that improve developer experience and speed to market, using Golang, IaC, and Kubernetes (EKS) at scale.

You will create GitHub Actions, deploy frameworks, backup/restore, and develop controllers for auto remediation while collaborating with IT, backend, frontend, mobile and data teams. Remote-friendly position.