Senior Platform Engineer

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🕒 April 9

🐊 Florida – Remote

🐊 Florida – Remote

💵 $70 - $80 / hour

⏳ Contract/Temporary

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Simple Software Solutions Group, Inc

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2017

💼 Consulting

🏥 Healthcare

📣 Marketing

Consulting • Healthcare • Marketing

Simple Software Solutions Group, Inc. is a company committed to designing and creating elegant IT solutions that deliver real value to clients. They offer a wide range of services including web development, digital marketing, mobile app development, ERP consulting, and big data analytics. With a focus on technology and strategic business outcomes, their experienced team works to implement innovative technologies and support across various sectors from healthcare to retail.

📋 Description

• Design and implement highly available, resilient, and cost effective platforms and middleware solutions. • Drive automation initiatives using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and DevOps practices to improve efficiency and reduce manual operations. • Build, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines supporting containerized applications. • Engineer and support container platforms such as RedHat OpenShift (OCP) and other Kubernetes platforms (EKS/AKS/ECS) in enterprise environments. • Implement and manage service mesh technologies (e.g., Istio) to enhance traffic management, observability, and microservices security. • Establish monitoring, logging, and alerting standards to ensure platform reliability, performance, and SLA compliance. • Serve as a subject matter expert (SME) for Middleware platforms, advising teams on architecture, best practices, and operational excellence. • Partner with security and compliance teams to embed governance, security controls, and DevSecOps practices into platform designs. • Lead troubleshooting efforts and act as an escalation point for complex Level III and Level IV production issues. • Install, configure, and maintain middleware platforms, Kubernetes clusters, applications, and supporting infrastructure. • Mentor and guide junior engineers, promoting best practices and supporting technical growth across the team. • Document architecture, operational procedures, and standard operating processes following industry standards. • Participate in and lead technical discussions, contributing to architectural decisions and cross functional collaboration. • Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend improvements that enhance platform performance, security, and scalability.

🎯 Requirements

• 10-15+ years of related IT work experience. • Hands on experience in engineering and implementation of RedHat OpenShift (OCP) or similar Kubernetes / Container platforms like ECS/EKS. • Hands on experience in automating CI / CD pipelines for RedHat OpenShift (OCP) or related Kubernetes / Container platforms. • Hands-on working knowledge with Docker/Podman Git, Jenkins, other CI/CD tools. • Hand-on experience implementing, configure, and maintenance Istio Service Mesh or another service mesh for traffic management, observability, and security of microservices. • Experience with DevSecOps concepts/working tools is needed. • Proven working experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools, specifically Terraform, for provisioning and managing cloud resources. • Hand-on experience in Cloud platforms like AWS (Preferred) or Azure. • Experience with IBM Event Streams or IBM App Connect Enterprise (MQ) is highly preferred. • Working knowledge for AWS Foundational Services like ECS, EC2, IAM, VPCs, DNS, Networking, Security Groups, Load Balancers, etc. • Experience with any industry leading Scripting languages such as Shell scripting/Python/Groovy/PowerShell is needed. • Any experience or knowledge with IBM CloudPak products is a plus. • Core Middleware experience in handling IBM WebSphere products / Application Server / Webservers is a plus. • Working knowledge on distributed operating systems like Linux / Windows / AIX. • Knowledge of Load balancers, DNS resolutions, basic Network issues troubleshooting related to Middleware technologies is needed.

🏖️ Benefits

• Health insurance • Retirement plans • Paid time off • Flexible work arrangements • Professional development

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