What are the responsibilities and job description for the Sr. Platform Engineer (AKS/EKS) position at ASCENDING?
Site Reliability Engineer
Long term contract- 2 years
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:
Long term contract- 2 years
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.
- 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)