Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

The Senior Platform Engineer provides production support, production monitoring, CI/CD design & implementation, & security automation across the open-source software platforms CTDS develops and operates for translational data science. Production support includes triaging, researching, communicating, and addressing production incidents. For monitoring, the engineer will wrangle disparate system monitoring assets and develop common analytics to inform optimization, define benchmarks and confidence intervals, and to forecast, proactively mitigating production incidents.

CI/CD pipelines are for hybrid cloud architecture on-premises and in commercial cloud providers like Amazon, Google, and Microsoft.

This at-will position is wholly or partially funded by contractual grant funding which is renewed under provisions set by the grantor of the contract. Employment will be contingent upon the continued receipt of these grant funds and satisfactory job performance.

Responsibilities include:

• Responsible for technical tasks and timely delivery of such tasks, meeting the required level of quality.
• Participation in complex and challenging activities, including design and implementation.
• Provide support and maintenance for existing applications.
• Provide technical mentorship to interns and onboarding staff and technical leadership in technical initiatives.
• Actively participate in the hiring process and provide fair and productive interview feedback.
• Elaborate on technical solutions internally and externally when required.
• Investigates, analyzes and resolves day-to-day technical problems using standard procedures.
• Works with stakeholders to gather and analyze requirements for developmental programs. Receives a moderate level of guidance to design applications to meet University and business requirements.
• Performs code testing on components and works to ensure that appropriate implementation standards are met. Evaluates design alternatives for development cost and solutions using various methods.
• Supports and maintains existing applications. Works with web developers and responds to requests from users.
• Performs other related work as needed.

Minimum qualifications include a college or university degree in a related field and 2-5 years of work experience in a related job discipline.

Preferred qualifications include an advanced degree in computer science, mathematics, statistics, engineering, or a relevant quantitative field, and experience with infrastructure, configuration and/or deployment automation, Unix/Linux programming or system administration, cloud technologies, configuration management utility, load balancing technologies, source control and build systems, container based deployment, log aggregation tools, security frameworks, cloud platforms, CI/CD, and Agile methodologies, and provisioning and managing GPU-enabled infrastructure.