Job Description

Platform Engineering Engineer 3 #1065401

Position Description:

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.

Key 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 ensuring 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
• Advocating feedback with service providers and developers, to ensure the platform continues to grow and evolve to meet their needs

Skills Required:

• Network Engineering, Endpoint Security, Cloud Infrastructure, Google Cloud Platform, Cyber Security, Java, Python

Experience Required:

• Engineer 3 Exp: Prac. In 2 coding lang. or adv. Prac. in 1 lang. 6+ years in IT; 4+ years in development

Experience Preferred:

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

Education Required:

• Bachelor's Degree

Additional Info:

At FastTek Global, Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet. We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories. Also, Doing the right thing is our mantra. We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.

We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years!

FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused.

We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible, creative and honest. Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.

Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:

• Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
• Vision
• Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
• Long Term Disability (100% paid)
• Life Insurance (100% paid)
• 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match

Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.

FastTek Global was named one of the Top Work Places in Michigan by the Detroit Free Press in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023!

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AI & Hiring Disclosure

We use AI tools to support parts of our hiring process, such as reviewing applications and identifying potential matches. These tools are designed to promote efficiency, consistency, and fairness, and they are always used under human oversight.

All personal data collected is used solely for recruitment purposes, and you have the right to know, access, or request deletion of your data at any time, subject to legal limits.

If AI will be used in a video interview, you'll be informed in advance and asked for your consent, with the option to opt out.

Our tools are regularly reviewed to detect potential bias and to ensure compliance with all applicable laws and our commitment to inclusive hiring.

To learn more or exercise your rights, please contact us at info@fasttek.com.