What are the responsibilities and job description for the Platform Engineer position at BCForward?
Job Details
Job Description
BCforward is hiring highly motivated Platform Engineer
Job: Platform Engineer
Duration: 12 Months
Location: Remote
Pay: $55/hr - $60/hr
Job Summary:
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.
Primary 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 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.
Skills:
Backbase.io, experience with payment platforms, ACH wire RTP, SaaS software, Salesforce experience
Founded in 1998 on the idea that industry leaders needed a professional service, and workforce management expert, to fuel the development and execution of core business and technology strategies, BCforward is a Black-owned firm providing unique solutions supporting value capture and digital product delivery needs for organizations around the world. Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN with an Offshore Development Center in Hyderabad, India, BCforward s 6,000 consultants support more than 225 clients globally.
BCforward champions the power of human potential to help companies transform, accelerate, and scale. Guided by our core values of People-Centric, Optimism, Excellence, Diversity, and Accountability, our professionals have helped our clients achieve their strategic goals for more than 25 years. Our strong culture and clear values have enabled BCforward to become a market leader and best in class places to work.
BCforward is an equal opportunity employer.
Company Description
Salary : $55 - $60
