Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

Salary: open + bonus

Location: Pleasant Prairie, WI

*We do not provide sponsorship for this role*

*Bonus Eligible*

A prestigious company is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer where you'll design, develop, and deliver custom solutions to big challenges. And you'll be doing it for a proven industry leader that runs one of the largest E-commerce sites in the U.S.

Position Responsibilities

• Gain solid understanding of the business process, workflows, and data.
• Work with project managers during scoping and requirements sessions.
• Assist in technical specifications and other deliverable documents.
• Collaborate with enterprise and application architects to implement new solutions and improvise existing solutions.
• Implement appropriate monitoring, alerting and measurements to ensure the health of our environment.
• Develop and document disaster recovery plans and participate in testing to ensure environment is recoverable within pre-determined SLAs.
• Develop a deep understanding of applications and integration and bring issues to resolution.
• Develop, Implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines following the best practices.
• Configure and monitor application environments for the best performance.
• Plan for and apply application software patches.
• Become subject-matter expert (SME) on the software packages you are assigned to support.
• Provide guidance and mentor junior members of the team.
• Provide on-call support for production environment.

Minimum Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science.
• 9+ years' experience supporting Middleware and packaged applications.
• 5 years of hands-on experience administering Java containers such as WebSphere Application Server, JBoss, Tomcat or WebLogic with expertise in installation, support, analysis of logs and performance tuning.
• Experience with Docker and/or Kubernetes container orchestration tools a huge plus.
• Excellent knowledge of supporting software solutions on Red Hat Linux.
• Experience with Continuous integration and deployment automation tools such as Jenkins, SonarQube, Artifactory, Ansible, Azure DevOps, Git a huge plus.
• Understanding of network standards, such as DHCP, DNS, SSL, TCP, UDP, IP, QoS and ICMP.
• Strong understanding of networking concepts such as load balancing and routing; ability to carry out basic network troubleshooting in a server runtime.
• Comfortable with Scripting languages such as bash, Perl, and python to automate tasks
• Experience using APM products like Dynatrace a plus.