Platform Engineer III

Description

Position Summary

The Platform Engineer III manages and oversees design, administration, support and maintenance of enterprise-level Linux and Kubernetes systems. The Engineer also provides expert professional assistance and internal consulting to departments on technical infrastructure design and support issues to meet business, operating and data management needs.

Summary Essential Job Functions

• Supervises and participates in the development, implementation and evaluation of plans, policies, systems, and procedures to achieve long-range and annual goals, objectives, and work standards.
• Develops and maintains strong customer relationships to ensure effective service delivery and customer satisfaction; interacts with customers regularly to develop and refine requirements, gain agreement on solutions and deliverables, report on progress, monitor satisfaction, identify, and resolve concerns and conflicts and seek cooperation, involvement, and action to achieve mutual objectives.
• Supervises and participates in managing infrastructure projects; develops project feasibility and scope of work project boundaries, detailed project plans, milestones, and deadlines.
• Coordinates the design, build, installation, maintenance, and support of an effective, reliable interoperating infrastructure to promote the sharing of information and operations; oversees the monitoring of system and network performance; forecasts requirements and performs capacity planning studies; oversees maintenance and modification of systems to expand capacity and maintain operations to meet enterprise requirements; recommends the purchase and upgrade of server hardware and software.
• Includes on-call responsibilities and working maintenance windows

Position Requirements

• BS Degree and or equivalent work experience in a technical discipline
• A minimum of 7 years of experience in advanced technical roles with substantive knowledge of all facets of IT operations management, high availability network, disaster recovery architectures, security, and application hosting in on-premises and cloud environments.
• Mastery of Red Hat Enterprise Linux operating system.
• Very strong experience using configuration management, orchestration, and automation tools such as Ansible, Terraform, or similar.
• Experience in building, managing, and maintaining containerized platforms such as OpenShift.
• Familiarity with Amazon Web Services (AWS) products such as EC2, S3, EKS, and MSK..
• Must have experience implementing and managing large enterprise-class server environments.
• Must be able to work closely within a high-performing team. Good attitude and ability to assist and integrate with other engineers are essential.
• Experience in working in a VMware environment.
• Familiarity with system and application monitoring tools such as Prometheus, Grafana, and AppDynamics
• Practical understanding of networking - routing, subnets, UDP, TCP, IP, & VLANs.
• Must have strong communication skills and ability to work individually, within a team, with other groups and with customers.
• Must have ability to communicate complex technical problems concisely and professionally to technical and non-technical audiences.
• Comfortable managing highly available complex infrastructure with 24/7 availability and support.

Preferred

• Some knowledge or experience with PostgreSQL database servers.
• Some knowledge or experience with F5 Load Balancers.
• Some knowledge or experience with Jira
• Some knowledge or experience with Agile