Senior Platform Engineer

Apex Systems, LLC; Dearborn, Northern (MI, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Everforth Apex is seeking a senior infrastructure engineer to develop and maintain reusable software components that empower product developers. You will design platform infrastructure, implement automation, and ensure security and disaster recovery are built into deployment pipelines.

The role blends collaboration with enterprise architects, software teams, and security specialists. Ideal candidates have 6+ years in IT with 4+ years in development, strong cloud and container experience, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree required or equivalent experience.
• 6+ years in IT; 4+ years in development or related work.
• Experience with multiple programming languages and modern infrastructure tools.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with architects and engineering teams to design platform infrastructure and tooling.
• Implement and manage platform infrastructure, apply upgrades and patches.
• Evaluate cloud providers, containers, and automation options to simplify workloads.
• Write and run Infrastructure as Code, automate provisioning, and improve CI/CD pipelines.
• Incorporate security, logging, monitoring, and disaster recovery into deployment pipelines.

Skills

Network Engineering

Endpoint Security

Cloud Infrastructure

Google Cloud Platform

Cyber Security

Java

Python

Education

Bachelor's Degree

Job description

**Job#: 3054401****Job Description:**Position Description:Employees in this job function are focused on developing and maintaining reusable software components that serve the needs of product developers in the organization. They are responsible for designing, implementing, integrating and maintaining the underlying infrastructure and software applications that support developer productivity and self-service.Key Responsibilities:* Collaborate with enterprise architects, software architects, software engineering teams, etc. to design the platform infrastructure and tools encompassing servers, networks, storage, databases, cloud services, etc.* Implement and manage the infrastructure that supports the platform tools and ensuring that upgrades, security patches and other performance improvements are regularly performed.* Evaluate cloud providers, containerization solutions and other complex technologies to deeply understand the configurations available and create abstractions of common configurations that can be utilized easily by application teams for their workloads* Write and execute automated Infrastructure as Code scripts and utilize processes like CI/CD to streamline and automate how the platform infrastructure is provisioned, configured and managed to improve consistency, traceability and repeatability* Integrate performance and monitoring best practices including QoS and SLA metrics to scale platform applications and managed services automatically due to demand.* Incorporate security and disaster recovery best practices into the infrastructure applications by integrating access control, identity management, logging/monitoring, public/private network configurations, data encryption, storage backup and disaster recovery, etc.* Facilitate the integration of enterprise managed software configurations into deployment pipelines managed by application teams to ensure approved configurations and best practices around security, networking, logging & monitoring, performance & scale, etc. are applied* Advocating feedback with service providers and developers, to ensure the platform continues to grow and evolve to meet their needsSkills Required:Network Engineering, Endpoint Security, Cloud Infrastructure, Google Cloud Platform, Cyber Security, Java, PythonExperience Required:Engineer 3 Exp: Prac. In 2 coding lang. or adv. Prac. in 1 lang. 6+ years in IT; 4+ years in developmentExperience Preferred:- Runbook documentation, architecture decision records (ADRs) - Cross-team collaboration (SRE, security, app dev)- Capacity forecasting and cost optimization (FinOps)Education Required:Bachelor's DegreeAdditional Information :Hybrid Position 4 days a week onsite*Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing(R) in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work(R) in the United Kingdom and Mexico.**Everforth Apex uses a virtual recruiter as part of the application process. 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Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our 'Welcome Packet' as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.**Everforth Apex Systems is an equal opportunity employer. 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