Platform Engineer

Location Zip Code:
84604
Job Family:
AD - Administration, Exempt Jobs
We are looking for a Platform Engineer to work closely with our Product and Platform Engineering teams. In this role, you will make an impact each day by building new infrastructure via code, supporting our current infrastructure, and focusing on the stability and observability of Aptive's internal suite of applications. You will support our engineering process, create amazing code, solve interesting puzzles, and work with a driven team that does all but the impossible.
Location: Remote
Compensation: $120,000+/annually depending on experience. Benefits included.
What we offer:

• Group Health, Dental, and Vision plans
• Pet insurance, Life insurance, and EAP benefits
• 401K with employer match
• Paid holidays and paid time off
• Opportunity for advancement
• Upbeat and exciting company culture and much more!

Responsibilities include:

• Play a critical role in helping develop, deploy, and maintain software in dev/test/prod environments, improve automation frameworks, curate logging, and monitoring systems, and support other critical technical operations
• Facilitate projects and work within and around the Platform Engineering team
• Develop plans and manage timelines to improve operations. This includes analyzing data, managing scope, managing stakeholders, managing project tasks, risks, and views
• Build and manage cloud infrastructure while utilizing best practices in operational excellence, security, reliability, performance efficiency, cost optimization, scalability, and high availability
• Support and enhance CI/CD pipelines
• Manage logs, monitoring, alerts, and dashboards
• Track and manage system and software patches and upgrades
• Ensure systems security and compliance with PCI, HIPAA, GDPR, etc
• Develop tools to help software engineers deliver high-performance software efficiently
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems.
• Coordinate with development leadership to determine and set reasonable
• infrastructure service level agreements (SLAs) and service level objectives (SLOs). Routinely monitor and report on performance.

Qualifications:

• 4-year degree in Computer Science/Software Engineering or equivalent education and experience
• 3+ years experience with AWS
• 3+ years experience working in enterprise cloud application architecture

Required Skills:

• Experience deploying and managing public cloud Kubernetes environments with infrastructure as code. eg. AWS EKS, GCP GKE, etc.
• Experience with multiple public cloud vendors and aware of strengths and weaknesses of each
• Strong understanding of best practices in platform engineering, devops, security, and software delivery
• Understanding of cloud-native, serverless, and microservices architecture
• Experience using SaaS and self-hosted observability tools. E.g. Datadog, New Relic, Splunk, etc.
• Strong, demonstrable experience with Pulumi, Terraform, CDK, and other IaaC tools
• Demonstrable experience with at least one modern programming language,. e.g. Go, Typescript, Python
• Ability to effectively work across multiple environments (staging, testing, production, etc.)
• Ability to debug and effectively troubleshoot software and service/infrastructure level problems
• Self-driven and able to work autonomously
• Ability to understand and prioritize the work to be done within the team
• Experience writing highly detailed documentation

Aptive Environmental:
Aptive Environmental provides pest control services to customers in 34 states across the US. It is ranked #1 Pest Control Company on Best Company. Aptive is also a proud member of the EPA's Pesticide Environmental Stewardship Program and has partnered with the United Nations Foundation's "United to Beat Malaria" to help stop the spread of Malaria transmitted by mosquito bites. Aptive is an equal-opportunity employer. We are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all employees.
Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change at any time with or without notice. If you require reasonable accommodation in completing this application, interviewing, completing any pre-employment testing, or otherwise participating in the employee selection process, please inform your recruiter.
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