Senior Platform Engineer - Cloud, CI/CD & Automation Remote

AHU Technologies Inc; United States; Remote; USD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading tech company is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to enhance their engineering team. The ideal candidate will have strong expertise in CI/CD, automation tools like Ansible and Terraform, and experience in building distributed systems. This remote role requires problem-solving abilities and a cloud services background.

Qualifications

• 8 years of software engineering experience.
• 4+ years in application development roles.
• 4+ years of automation experience using Python.
• Experience with deployment of production code using Docker.

Responsibilities

• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines.
• Automate deployments and manage infrastructure as code.
• Design and architect internal software tools.
• Diagnose and resolve performance issues in distributed systems.

Skills

CI/CD pipeline management

Automation with Ansible

Scripting in Python

Docker and Kubernetes

Problem solving

Distributed Systems

Agile/Scrum

Tools

Terraform

Prometheus

Grafana

AWS

Azure

Job description

Job Description

Our client is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer / Software Engineer to join their engineering team. Perfect for a skilled software engineer who also has cloud and infrastructure experiences and looking to grow! Great opportunity for software tooling!

Required Skills -

Python, Platform engineering, Infrastructure As Code, Automation

Must have a software engineering/problem solving background.

Job Duties -

• Platform Engineering: highly proficient with tools like Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform; deep experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automating deployments, and managing infrastructure as code
• Strong scripting abilities, particularly in Python and shell scripting, for automation, data manipulation, and system administration tasks
• Architecting and building internal software tools. Must have a software engineering/problem solving background.
• Experience with Distributed Systems and Microservices: The roles and responsibilities involve working with complex, distributed systems and microservices architectures
• Strong understanding of CI/CD including deployment automation, configuration management, test, and source code/git repositories
• Experience with containers and orchestration
• Experience with NoSQL and SQL databases, including at an administration and architecture level
• Experience and preference for working within an Agile/Scrum environment
• Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana for example) and the ability to diagnose and resolve performance and availability issues in distributed systems
• A strong history of diving in and solving complex problems

Job Requirements -

• 8 years software engineering
• 4+ years of software engineering in App Dev capacity
• 4+ years of automation and scripting using Python
• 8+ years of experience building automation/configuration management infrastructure such as Ansible, Terraform, Chef, and/or Puppet
• 8+ years of experience of building CI/CD pipelines
• 6+ years of experience with deployment of production code leveraging Docker containers
• Experience using cloud services (AWS and Azure preferred); public cloud IaaS and PaaS services
• Experience with large-scale distributed systems architectures. Examples include Java/Spring Boot, CQRS, event streaming, Kafka, Spark Knowledge in databases

Desired Skills & Experience -

• Streaming platforms such as Kafka/NATS/Kinesis/Event Hub
• Databricks/Apache Spark
• Elastic Search
• Apigee
• Datadog/New Relic

This is a remote position.