Platform Engineer

2-3 days on site

Typically 1-and-done via MS Teams - have one contractor on this team

12 months contract Subvending is ok

Description:
Contributes to the design and implementation of a software engineering culture that unifies Application Development and Operations. Will assist in engineering solutions that maximize the throughput of code releases through automated, secure and portable tools and functions.
Responsibilities:

• Participates in the analysis, design and development of technical specifications, programming, and testing of DevOps components.
• Participates in design and scripting reviews to ensure that design and enterprise programming standards and guidelines are followed. Assist with creating or updating the enterprise standards when gaps are identified.
• Assists team members in issue resolution, scalability metrics, integration issues, and critical production issues as required.
• Follows technology best practices and standards and escalates any issues as they deem appropriate. Follows architecture and design best practices (as guided by the Senior Engineer, Lead DevOps Engineer & Architectural team).
• Responsible for assisting in configuration and scripting to implement fully automated infrastructure provisioning, image builds, and instance deployment capabilities.
• Follows standard change control and configuration management practices.
• Participates in 24-hour on-call rotation in support of the platform.

Required Skills/Qualifications

• Drive and desire to automate repeatable processes
• Excellent interpersonal skills and communication, as well as the willingness to collaborate with teams across the organization
• Experience in DevOps practices, infrastructure, scripting/programming.
• Linux/Unix OS experience
• OpenShift experience
• Kubernetes experience

Desired Skills/Qualifications

• KCNA, CKA, and/or CKAD certification
• Experience working with Kubernetes in an Enterprise environment
• Working knowledge of cloud technologies (eg. OpenStack, Azure, AWS, etc.), container concepts (eg. Docker), infrastructure deployment tools (eg. Ansible, Chef, Terraform), CI/CD tools (eg. ArgoCD, Jenkins, GitHub Actions)

Required Skills : OpenShift Kubernetes Linux Cloud
Background Check :Yes
Drug Screen :Yes
Notes :
Selling points for candidate :
Project Verification Info :"The information provided below is for Apex Systems AV use only and is not to be distributed publicly, or to any third party. Any distribution of the below information will result in corrective action from Apex Systems Vendor Management. Client Letter: Will Provide"
Candidate must be your W2 Employee :No
Exclusive to Apex :No
Face to face interview required :No
Candidate must be local :No
Candidate must be authorized to work without sponsorship ::No
Interview times set : :No
Type of project :0011258 | Delta Dental of Michigan
Master Job Title :ENG
Branch Code :

Location: Okemos, MI, US

Posted Date: 11/30/2024