Job Title: Senior Platform Engineer

Location: Salisbury, NC / Quincy, MA

Duration: 6 Months Contract

Roles & Responsibilities:

Responsibilities:

• Develop general infrastructure technology in a public/private cloud
• Design, configure, optimize, manage, monitor, document and support platform services and components, as well as supporting enterprise data ingestion
• Assist in the delivery of technical projects
• Participate in design sessions and code reviews to elevate the quality of engineering across the organization
• Spearhead new feature use (innovate within existing tooling)
• Spearhead new software acquisition and use (innovate with new tooling)
• Leverage automation to remove redundant error prone tasks to improve the quality of solutions
• Provide advanced system administration, operational support, and problem resolution for a large complex cloud computing environment and develop scripts to automate the deployment of resource stacks and associated configurations
• Extend standard system management processes into the cloud including change, incident, and problem management
• Develop and maintain a library of deployable, tested, and documented automation design scripts, processes, and procedures
• Enable DevOps development activities and complex development tasks that will involve working with a wide variety of tools and container management systems
• Coordinate and bring application experts and other infrastructure teams together for finding optimal solutions to issues related to capacity, security, performance
• Implement and maintain CI/CD solutions and create code deployment models to support self-service automation

Qualifications:

• Proven track record with at least 4 years of experience in DevOps data platform development
• Proficiency in infrastructure as code concepts and tools (e.g., ARM templates, Terraform, Ansible) for automating resource provisioning and configuration
• Experience with container orchestration and deployment using tools such as Docker and AKS.
• Hands-on experience with CI/CD pipeline tools (e.g., Azure DevOps, Jenkins, CircleCI) and version control systems (e.g., GitHub)
• Strong understanding of DevOps concepts (Azure DevOps framework and tools preferred)
• Strong working knowledge of networking concepts (DNS/DHCP/Firewalls/Sub-netting, etc.) Azure preferred
• Solid scripting skills in languages such as Python, Bash, Javascript, or similar
• Solid understanding of monitoring / observability concepts and tooling
• Extensive experience and strong understanding of cloud and infrastructure components
• Strong problem-solving and analytical skills, with the ability to troubleshoot complex DevOps platform issues and provide effective solutions
• Knowledge of developer tooling across the software development life cycle (task management, source code, building, deployment, operations, real-time communication)
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders
• 4 years of professional infrastructure and/or software development experience
• 3 years of experience with Azure, AWS, GCP or another cloud service (Azure preferred)
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Data Science, or a related field

Bonus:

• Experience with Kafka and/or MongoDB