Platform Engineer

Job#: 3021602

Job Description:

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, software engineering teams, etc. 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 and ensure that upgrades, security patches and other performance improvements are regularly performed.
• Evaluate cloud providers, containerization solutions and other complex technologies to deeply understand the configurations available and create abstractions of common configurations that can be utilized easily by application teams for their workloads.
• Write and execute automated Infrastructure as Code scripts and utilize processes like CI/CD to streamline and automate how the platform infrastructure is provisioned, configured and managed to improve 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, etc.
• 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, etc. 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

Engineer 3 Exp:
Practical experience in 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 versions 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.
• Technical Skills Summary
• 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

Hybrid worker, required to report to work in Dearborn, Michigan 4 days per week.

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Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans, as well as an ESPP and 401K plan with company match, an HSA, and a Support Linc Employee Assistance Program with up to 8 free counseling sessions. Professional development includes on‑demand training, certification prep, and access to technical and leadership courses after 6+ months of tenure.

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