SSUSA Job #859: SOFTWARE PLATFORM ENGINEER

Job Description

SOFTWARE PLATFORM ENGINEER 

 

This position is for a dynamic and strategic person who can be part of a team that can provide key capabilities for critical cross-organization programs, and prove out emerging technologies and DevOps best practices. j

 

Responsibilities:

 

  • Implement SLOs/SLIs for a number of platforms

  • Help build a new team in NYC to increase the reliability of key services

  • Act as the technical lead for medium sized projects

  • Comprehensive knowledge of the functional and technical aspects of the platforms

  • Able to troubleshoot complex hardware and software defects with low supervision

  • Identify technical obstacles early and work to find creative solutions

  • Educate team members on capabilities and constraints of technology platforms

  • Review, analyze, and modify programming systems, including coding, testing, debugging and installing

  • Maintain records to document program development and revisions

  • Perform data analytics to support job functions

  • Provides ongoing support to existing systems as needed

  • Monitors operating efficiency of existing systems

  • Defines and maintains system/application configurations

  • Communicate technical info to peers, vendors and customers

  • Conduct design and implementation reviews to ensure compliance with standards

  • Estimate level of effort to meet acceptance criteria

  • Focus on continuous improvement practices as required to meet quality / time to market imperatives

  • Maintain records to document system development and evolution

  • Provide 3rd level support as needed

  • Share best practices and improve processes within and across sprint teams, and mentor more junior team members

  • Working in support of the SRE evolution program including:

    • Onboarding, Retrospective review, Infrastructure, Code, Incident analysis, Jira stories, execution plan / customer council, feature team standups

    • With SRE Pod, identify key learnings, ideas for improvement, and needs

Basic Qualifications:

  • Bachelor's Degree or military experience

  • At least 5 years of IT experience

  • At least 2 years of SRE experience

  • At least 1 year of SLOSLI implementation experience

  • At least 3 years as a tech lead

 

Preferred Qualifications:

  • Master's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems, or Engineering or military experience

  • At least 5 years of experience in Applications Technical Support or Incident Management or Incident Response Team or Release Management

  • At least 5 years of experience in Reporting and Analysis

  • At least 5 years of experience in Resiliency related activities

  • At least 3 years experience with programming languages (python preferred)

  • At least 5 years experience with scripting (shell, bash, perl, python)

  • Active (not expired) AWS certification

  • At least 5 years experience with AWS cloud technologies (S3 bucket administration; EC2; ELB; Security Groups; IGW; ACLs; etc)

 

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REQUIRED SKILLS
AWS 
Unix/Linux 
Python 
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Job Location
New York City, Washington, DC

Position Type
Permanent

Salary Range
TBD