Senior Platform Engineer

Company: VanderHouwen
Location: Beaverton
Posted on: February 13, 2021

Job Description:

Description

Job ID: 49195
Senior Platform Engineer
Our client is looking for a Senior Software Engineer who excels in team environments and is excited about building cloud native platforms that can scale with the demand of business.

Senior Platform Engineer Responsibilities

Evangelize and cultivate adoption of Enterprise Platforms, open source software and agile principles within the organization.
Ensure solutions are designed and developed using a scalable, highly resilient cloud native architecture.
Deliver well-documented and well-tested code, and participate in peer code reviews.
Design and develop tools and frameworks to improve security, reliability, maintainability, availability and performance for the technology foundation of our platform.
Ensure product and technical features are delivered to spec and on-time.
Collaborate with and consult other development teams, architecture teams etc.
Explain designs and constraints to stakeholders and technical teams, gather alignment and buy-in.
Provide responsive support and operations for the platforms you help build.
Work with product management to support product / service scoping activities.
Work with leadership to define delivery schedules of key features through an agile framework.
Be a key contributor to overall architecture, framework and design of enterprise platforms.

Senior Platform Engineer Qualifications

Masters' or Bachelors' degree in Computer Science or a related field.
5+ years of experience in large-scale production-grade software development & platform engineering.
4+ years of hands-on experience with AWS, Azure, GCP or similar cloud platform.
2+ years of experience developing data & analytics solutions using Airflow, Spark, NiFi, Kafka.
4+ years of development experience in languages like Golang, Python, Ruby, Java, Scala or Node.js.
2+ years of experience with ELK stack observability & monitoring tools like SignalFx, NewRelic etc.
2+ years of experience with Devops stack; GitHub, Jenkins, Docker, Terraform, Kubernetes, EKS etc.
Experience with both relational and No-SQL databases, data lakes, S3, Snowflake, Teradata etc.
Experience with securing RESTful APIs and Apps using OAuth, OpenID Connect, and JWT a plus.
Exposure to Agile and test-driven development.
Experience delivering projects in a highly collaborative, multi-discipline development team environment.

Benefits

Benefits are available to eligible VanderHouwen contractors and include coverage for medical, dental, vision, life insurance, short and long term disability, and matching 401k.

About VanderHouwen

VanderHouwen is an award-winning, Women-Owned, WBENC certified professional staffing firm. Founded in 1987, VanderHouwen has been successfully placing experienced professionals throughout the Pacific Northwest and nationwide. Our recruitment teams are highly specialized in either Technology and IT, Engineering, or Accounting and Finance career markets. Our recruiters value building meaningful, professional relationships with each candidate as well as developing honed knowledge of companies' staffing needs and workplaces. Partner with us to land your next exciting career.

VanderHouwen is an Equal Opportunity Employer and participates in E-Verify. VanderHouwen does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, disability, or any other characteristic protected by applicable local, state or federal civil rights laws.

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