Cloud Platform Engineer

TEKsystems
$65.00 - $80.00 / hr
life insurance, sick time, 401(k), retirement plan
United States, Michigan, Farmington Hills
Mar 11, 2025
Description Platform Engineer Summary: Working with application, cybersecurity, and infrastructure engineering teams to design, develop, and maintain an internal developer platform (IDP) that empowers our engineering teams with self-service capabilities. Identify the most optimal cloud-based solutions for the organization and maintain them in accordance with best practices and company security policies. Develop solutions to automate manual tasks and processes. Key Responsibilities: Internal Developer Platform (IDP): Build and maintain a comprehensive platform that provides self-service infrastructure capabilities, including CI/CD pipelines, automated environment provisioning, monitoring, and scaling. Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Implement and manage infrastructure using IaC (e.g., Terraform, CloudFormation, Ansible) to ensure a consistent and repeatable environment across development, staging, and production. Observability: Ensure high availability and reliability of the platform through monitoring, logging, and alerting. Implement tools (e.g., Datadog, PagerDuty) to optimize performance and resource utilization. Containers and Orchestration: Design, implement, and manage containerized environments using tools like ECS and Docker to ensure applications are portable, scalable, and isolated. Collaborate with development teams to containerize applications and manage container orchestration using platforms like EKS and Kubernetes, ensuring proper scaling, deployment, and monitoring of containers across environments. Collaboration with Development Teams: Work closely with software engineers, QA, and DevOps teams to understand their needs and create solutions that improve the development and deployment processes. Security and Compliance: Ensure the platform meets all security, compliance, and regulatory requirements, automating these processes wherever possible. Continuous Improvement: Identify opportunities for optimization and proactively improve the platform's functionality, scalability, and usability. Qualifications: Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, or a related field, or equivalent experience. 3+ years of experience working in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), with a focus on building developer platforms. 3+ years working with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, CloudFormation, and Ansible). 3+ years working with cloud platforms (AWS and Azure). Certification preferred. 3+ years of experience with containerization and orchestration tools (ECS, EKS, Docker, Kubernetes). 3+ years working with CI/CD pipelines, processes, and tools (Azure DevOps, GitHub). Experience building self-service infrastructure, ideally in a microservices architecture. Expertise with monitoring and observability tools (e.g., Datadog, Splunk, PagerDuty). Proficiency with version control systems (e.g., Git) and collaborative coding practices. Strong scripting skills (Bash, Python, or PowerShell). Working knowledge of security best practices and compliance standards. Working knowledge of agile methodologies. Strong problem-solving skills and the ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment. Excellent communication and teamwork skills. Notes: We are looking for a consultant with extensive experience in AWS and OCI, which is a significant plus for this role. The primary focus will be on Terraform for 100% automated infrastructure, rather than hands-on coding. Terraform expertise is essential. Business Outcome: Guidewire is coming online, and a successful project will require support for integrations into Guidewire. While we have a vendor partner for the migration, past AWS migration experience would be highly beneficial during the recommendation phases. We are open to some light assistance but prefer our team to be heavily involved and own the strategy. Background: We started on MAP (AWS) funded program, but paused as we weren't ready. There are measurable outcomes as part of that program. The ideal resource will have the right personality and fit, along with high work quality. Technical Environment: -600 servers -Consultant will help define server roles at a high level, particularly those under IT control (not running line-of-business applications) -Containerization is currently a strategy, but experience in this area would be valuable for future advisory services Future State: We aim to achieve 100% automated deployment guidelines this year. Team Size: Our platform engineering team consists of 5 members, with plans to grow. Skills* Business analysis, Requirements gathering, Business requirements, Data, Jira, Business process, Data analysis, guidewire, Cloud, Devops, Automation, Terraform, Python, Architecture, Infrastructure, Jenkins, Scripting, Linux, Aws Top Skills Details Business analysis,Requirements gathering,Business requirements,Data,Jira,Business process,Data analysis,guidewire,Cloud,Devops,Automation,Terraform,Python,Architecture,Infrastructure Additional Skills & Qualifications The candidate needs to be local and able to come on site 2 days per week in Farmington Hills, MI. And the last Thursday of every month. Experience Level Expert Level Pay and Benefits The pay range for this position is $65.00 - $80.00/hr. Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to specific elections, plan, or program terms. If eligible, the benefits available for this temporary role may include the following: * Medical, dental & vision * Critical Illness, Accident, and Hospital * 401(k) Retirement Plan - Pre-tax and Roth post-tax contributions available * Life Insurance (Voluntary Life & AD&D for the employee and dependents) * Short and long-term disability * Health Spending Account (HSA) * Transportation benefits * Employee Assistance Program * Time Off/Leave (PTO, Vacation or Sick Leave) Workplace Type This is a hybrid position in Farmington Hills,MI. Application Deadline This position is anticipated to close on Mar 21, 2025. About TEKsystems: We're partners in transformation. We help clients activate ideas and solutions to take advantage of a new world of opportunity. We are a team of 80,000 strong, working with over 6,000 clients, including 80% of the Fortune 500, across North America, Europe and Asia. As an industry leader in Full-Stack Technology Services, Talent Services, and real-world application, we work with progressive leaders to drive change. That's the power of true partnership. TEKsystems is an Allegis Group company. The company is an equal opportunity employer and will consider all applications without regards to race, sex, age, color, religion, national origin, veteran status, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic information or any characteristic protected by law.