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Akuna Capital

Platform Engineer

Akuna Capital
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about 4 hours ago
Chicago, IL, USAMid Level / Senior
H1B Sponsor

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