Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer #1049225

Dearborn, Michigan

• 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.

• Collaborate with enterprise architects, software architects, and software engineering teams 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, ensuring that upgrades, security patches, and other performance improvements are regularly performed.
• Evaluate cloud providers, containerization solutions, and other complex technologies to understand available configurations and create abstractions of common configurations that can be utilized easily by application teams.
• Write and execute automated Infrastructure as Code scripts and utilize CI/CD processes to streamline and automate how the platform infrastructure is provisioned, configured, and managed, improving 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.
• 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 are applied.
• Advocate feedback with service providers and developers to ensure the platform continues to grow and evolve to meet their needs.

• Scripting
• Kubernetes
• IBM Web Sphere Application Server
• Linux
• Git Hub
• Jenkins
• Docker
• Python

• Kubernetes
• Scripting
• Linux
• IBM Web Sphere Application Server
• Git Hub
• Jenkins
• Python
• Docker

• Engineer experience in at least 2 coding languages or advanced practice in 1 language
• 6+ years in IT
• 4+ years in development

• Experience with Data Stage on IBM Information Server / Data Stage 11.x and good experience in CP4d
• Experience containerizing Data Stage or integration workloads, or familiarity with hybrid Data Stage deployments
• Experience with enterprise backup and DR solutions for middleware
• Red Hat Certified Specialist in Open Shift Administration, IBM Data Stage certifications

• Platforms: IBM Info Sphere Data Stage, Apache NiFi, Red Hat Open Shift
• OS: RHEL/SUSE Linux
• Scripting:
  Bash, Python (or Perl)
• Containers:
  Docker, Kubernetes / Open Shift
• CI/CD:
  Jenkins, Git Lab CI, ArgoCD, Git Ops concepts
• SCM:
  Git

• Bachelor's Degree

• Medical and Dental (Fast Tek 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

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