What are the responsibilities and job description for the Platform Engineer position at Apexon?
Platform Engineer
Mission: Productize and operate the proxy platform across development, test, certification, and production environments.
Core responsibilities
- Build repeatable installation, packaging, configuration, deployment, upgrade, rollback, and recovery processes.
- Integrate the platform into enterprise CI/CD and release-management controls.
- Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, health checks, dashboards, and capacity controls.
- Support environment readiness, vulnerability remediation, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
- Partner with network, software, automation, testing, and BizOps teams on production readiness.
- Document operational procedures and support handoff.
Required skills
- Deep Linux administration and troubleshooting.
- Enterprise platform engineering, configuration management, and release engineering.
- Observability and production-support practices.
- Scripting and automation, preferably Python or shell.
- Experience supporting highly available, mission-critical systems.
Preferred experience
- Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent tooling.
- Network-service or edge-platform operations.
- Security scanning, patching, certificate management, and controlled production deployment.