Platform Engineer

Introduction

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.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Network Engineering
• Endpoint Security
• Cloud Infrastructure
• Google Cloud Platform
• Cyber Security
• Java
• Python
• Prior work experience at client or in client's Industry

Applicants must be able to work directly for Artech on W2

Preferred Skills & Qualifications

• Runbook documentation, architecture decision records (ADRs)
• Cross-team collaboration (SRE, security, app dev)
• Capacity forecasting and cost optimization (FinOps)

Day-to-Day 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 ensure 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.
• Advocate feedback with service providers and developers to ensure the platform continues to grow and evolve to meet their needs.

For immediate consideration please click APPLY to begin the screening process with Alex.