Platform Engineer III

Platform Engineer III

BCforward is currently seeking a highly motivated Platform Engineer for an opportunity in REMOTE

Job: Platform Engineer

Duration: 12 Months

Location: Remote

Pay: $68/hr

Job Summary:

Responsible for building outstanding software solutions to drive the success of a business. Build various aspects of the company's infrastructure to power innumerable conversations at scale.

Primary Responsibilities:

* Maintain the company platform uptime, performance, stability, and scalability

* Design, guide, mentor and challenge system architecture and design with others

* Develop and maintain a public API

* Develop best possible, most robust, and extensible solutions from feature requests

* Work with big data technology (Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, etc)

* Work with Data Scientists to develop rich value-added features

* Work with DBA to create ETL and Data Warehouse system

* Work with Operations to automate solutions and increase service reliability

* Closely monitor all platform related production systems

* Building tools and processes to support analytics, monitoring, machine-learning and data-warehousing platforms.

* Define and implement various strategies covering everything from subnets to backups to fog networking/computing configuration and deployments.

* Provision, configure, maintain, backup, and monitor onsite and cloud based server resources.

* Define and implement deployment strategies for client-facing and internal tool systems.

* Continual improvement and fine-tuning of various alerting and monitoring systems.

Qualifications:

* Experience in software/systems development.

* Strong software development background, experience building software systems.

* Working knowledge of at least one of the following languages: PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Elixir, Go or comparable.

* Strong background in Linux administration.

* Strong experience with cloud providers such as AWS, Digital Ocean, Google Cloud, etc.

* Strong understanding of IT security best practices.

* Experience with automation/configuration software (puppet, ansible), and/or orchestration software (docker swarm, kubernetes, etc).

* Understanding of computer networks.

* Experience with administration of at production scale.

Skills:

Backbase.io, experience with payment platforms, ACH wire RTP, SaaS software, Salesforce experience

Benefits:
BCforward offers all eligible employees a comprehensive benefits package including, but not limited to major medical, HSA, dental, vision, employer-provided group life, voluntary life insurance, short-term disability, long-term disability, and 401k.

About BCforward:
Founded in 1998 on the idea that industry leaders needed a professional service, and workforce management expert, to fuel the development and execution of core business and technology strategies, BCforward is a Black-owned firm providing unique solutions supporting value capture and digital product delivery needs for organizations around the world. Headquartered in Indianapolis, IN with an Offshore Development Center in Hyderabad, India, BCforward's 6,000 consultants support more than 225 clients globally.

BCforward champions the power of human potential to help companies transform, accelerate, and scale. Guided by our core values of People-Centric, Optimism, Excellence, Diversity, and Accountability, our professionals have helped our clients achieve their strategic goals for more than 25 years. Our strong culture and clear values have enabled BCforward to become a market leader and best in class place to work.

BCforward is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or protected veteran status and will not be discriminated against based on disability.

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This posting is not an offer of employment. All applicants applying for positions in the United States must be legally authorized to work in the United States. The submission of intentionally false or fraudulent information in response to this posting may render the applicant ineligible for the position. Any subsequent offer of employment will be considered employment at-will regardless of the anticipated assignment duration.

Interested candidates please send resume in Word format Please reference job code 235131 when responding to this ad.

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