Platform Engineer

• 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 ensuring 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. Advocating 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 Exp:
  Prac. In 2 coding lang. or adv. Prac. in 1 lang.
• 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 is nice to have.
• 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

At Fast Tek Global,
Our Purpose is Our People and Our Planet
. We come to work each day and are reminded we are helping people find their success stories
. Also,
Doing the right thing is our mantra
. We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.

We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for 24 years
!

Fast Tek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is 100% consultant and client focused .

We've differentiated ourselves by being fast, flexible
, creative and honest
. Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.

• 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

Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.

Fast Tek Global was named one of the Top Work Places in Michigan by the Detroit Free Press in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019, 2020, 2021, 2022, and 2023!

We use AI tools to support parts of our hiring process, such as reviewing applications and identifying potential matches. These tools are designed to promote efficiency, consistency, and fairness, and they are always used under human oversight.

All personal data collected is used solely for recruitment purposes, and you have the right to know, access, or request deletion of your data at any time, subject to legal limits.

If AI will be used in a video interview, you'll be informed in advance and asked for your consent, with the option to opt out.

Our tools are regularly reviewed to detect potential bias…