Senior Platform Engineer / Software Engineer

Title- Senior Platform Engineer / Software Engineer

Location: Seattle, WA - Hybrid from day 1

The team needs a IAAS focused python Engineer. The team uses azure, but AWS experience is ok as well. This is a hybrid role, 3 days a week in office.

Opening / Selling Statement - Our client is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer / Software Engineer to join their engineering team. Perfect for a skilled software engineer who also has cloud and infrastructure experiences and looking to grow. Great opportunity for software tooling.
Job Duties -
• Platform Engineering: provisioning and deprovisioning of Azure resources using Terraform

• Building automation tasks using Python

• Architecting and building internal software tools.

• Strong understanding of Continuous Delivery and Integration frameworks including deployment automation, configuration management, test, and source code/git repositories; experience with containers desired

• Experience using Git and continuous delivery build systems (build/test/release infrastructure, ADO / Azure Devops preferred)

• Experience and preference for working within an Agile/Scrum environment

• Knowledge of core internet protocols including, but not limited to TCP/IP, DNS, HTTP

• Knowledge of network administration including, but not limited to Load balancers, VLAN, IP sub netting, proxies and firewalls, architecture, and core technologies (DNS, routing, iptables etc.)
Job Requirements -
• 8 years software engineering

• 4+ years of software engineering in App Dev capacity

• 4+ years of automation and scripting using Python

• 8+ years of experience building automation/configuration management infrastructure such as Ansible, Terraform, Chef, and/or Puppet Experience leveraging Docker within a local development workflow

• 8+ years of experience of building CI/CD pipelines using ADO (Azure DevOps)

• 6+ years of experience with deployment of production code leveraging Docker containers

• Experience using cloud services (AWS and Azure preferred); public cloud IaaS and PaaS services

• Experience with large-scale distributed systems architectures. Examples include Java/Spring Boot, CQRS, event streaming, Kafka, Spark Knowledge in databases

• Strong background in Linux administration and network administration