platform engineer - Minneapolis, United States - RIT Solutions, Inc.

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    Must have a valid Linkedin profile
    Duration: 12+ months

    Additional Details:
    Candidates need to be BOTH strong in dev & containerization.
    Integration Platform is looking for a creative and driven infrastructure developer with strong technical and programming skills, proven problem-solving ability, and excellent communication skills for enhancing and maintaining the infrastructure platform.

    Job Requirements Must Haves:

    • 8+ years of relevant experience in Software Engineering.
    • 5+ years of development experience in programming one or more of the languages: JavaScript/TypeScript, GoLang, Python, Java.
    • 3+ years of experience working in AWS Cloud Environment and proficient in fundamental services like EC2, VPC, IAM, S3, Any managed database service (like Aurora).
    • Engineering Mindset: Must be able to quickly learn and adapt to technologies needed for our platform including (but not limited to Typescript, GoLang, Pulumi, CodeFresh)
    • 3+ years of experience working on Containerization and Container Orchestration platforms (like Kubernetes), 2+ years of experience working on Infrastructure as a Code Technologies like Pulumi/CDK/Terraform/CloudFormation 3+ years of experience in creating and managing CI/CD Pipelines.
    • Understands fundamentals of git and git workflows.
    • Must have used at least one of the SAAS-based git tools like Github, Gitlab, Bitbucket.
    • Willing to provide Tier-3 support for our InfraStructure Platform.
    • Good troubleshooting skills to quickly understand and isolate the issues when doing Platform Development or providing platform support.
    • Understands fundamentals of Linux OS and Shell Scripting.
    • Understands fundamentals of networking to troubleshoot and diagnose networking issues
    • Understands fundamentals of security as it pertains to Kubernetes, AWS IAM, Containerization, Patching and Upgrades, Network Security.
    • Understands fundamentals of Observability including metrics, logging, tracing, alerting, and dashboards
    Good to Have:
    • Valid AWS Professional or Speciality Certification Pulumi IAC experience is a plus
    • Experience implementing Istio Service Mesh in production is a plus Experience using CodeFresh for CI/CD is a plus
    • Experience on messaging platforms like AWS MSK is a plus.
    • Experience working on Open Telemetry, AWS XRay, Prometheus, CloudWatch and ELK stack is a plus.