Sr. Platform Engineer (AKS/EKS) in Austin, Texas at ASCENDING LLC

Site Reliability Engineer
Contract to hire (Contract duration could be 6 - 24 months before conversion)
100% remote in the continental US

Our client, a premier national healthcare provider, is currently looking for a Senior Site Reliability Engineer on their Cloud Infrastructure team. You will be helping to build a new platform built on AWS cloud technologies.

The ideal candidate will have strong experience in AWS & Azure DevOps and most of those associated services. The client is looking for strong Kubernetes (EKS + AKS) experience and knowledge of networking within an AWS/Cloud environment. Terraform is heavily used for IaC and that experience is a must have. Any type of a Computer Science or Object Oriented Coding background is a very preferred skill to have.

Job Responsibilities:

• Stay up-to-date with emerging technologies, frameworks, and industry trends related to payment systems and cloud computing.
• Design and implement microservices-based architecture using domain-driven design principles.
• Utilize Kubernetes for container orchestration and management, ensuring scalability, reliability, and high availability of the payment system.
• Implement robust monitoring, logging, and alerting mechanisms to ensure system performance and availability .
• Develop highly resilient and highly available components for the payment system
• Conduct technology evaluations and provide recommendations for new tools, technologies, and frameworks that can enhance our payment infrastructure.
• Mentor and provide technical guidance to junior team members, fostering a culture of continuous learning and professional growth.

Qualifications:

• Strong Kubernetes(K8S) experience required
• 6+ years of experience in rearchitecting large-scale monolithic applications to cloud-native architectures.
• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Software Engineering, or a related field
• 4+ years of experience with cloud computing platforms with AWS and/or Azure including experience with serverless architectures, containers, and orchestration
• experience with payment industry standards, protocols, and security best practices
• knowledge of load balancing algorithms (will be asked in interview)
• must have worked in an AWS environment, working heavily with Kubernetes (EKS)/(AKS)
• must know security best practices for containers and clusters
• must know terraform well
• strong experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform)