Platform Engineer
Akuna Capitalabout 4 hours ago
Base Salary
$145k - $145k/yr
Responsibilities
- Ensure cloud services are leveraged to their full potential and best practices are being followed.
- Help manage public cloud growth and continuously improve the hybrid-cloud operating model.
- Evaluate proposed solution architectures and provide recommendations.
- Provision, configure, and monitor technologies such as Kubernetes, Spark, and Kafka.
- Automate infrastructure management and development pipelines with tools like Terraform and Jenkins.
- Explore new technologies in the cloud-native/container ecosystem.
- Monitor systems, clusters, and cloud deployments to detect errors and performance issues.
- Create and maintain performant and reliable production systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, Cloud Engineering, SRE, DevOps, or related roles.
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect certification preferred.
- Deep experience deploying and scaling production Kubernetes platforms, including Amazon EKS.
- Strong expertise in designing and managing cloud infrastructure on AWS; GCP experience is a plus.
- Advanced proficiency with Terraform and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Experience building and operating highly available, scalable, and secure cloud-native platforms.
- Strong knowledge of observability, including monitoring and operational troubleshooting.
- Proven experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong Linux systems administration and troubleshooting skills.
- Proficiency in automation and scripting with Python, Bash, or similar languages.
- Experience with cloud-native data services, including Amazon RDS and DynamoDB.
- Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives and mentor engineers.
- Strong communication and collaboration skills.
Benefits
- Comprehensive benefits package including employer-paid medical, dental, and vision.
- Retirement contributions and paid time off.
- Discretionary performance bonus as part of the total compensation package.
Tech Stack
Amazon DynamoDBAmazon RedshiftAnsibleApache KafkaApache SparkAWSAzureBashGoogle CloudJenkinsKubernetesPythonTerraform
Categories
Data EngineeringDevOps