Platform/site Reliability Engineer

Platform Engineer / Sre

A large financial organization is seeking a Platform Engineer / Sre that will sit full remote or onsite in Cincinnati, Ohio for a long term contract. You'll be responsible for working in an oracle and linux environment focused on building resiliency and site reliability around payments transaction applications. You will work with third party vendors to ensure the environment is scaled properly and can handle the upcoming volume of transactions. Additionally there is a focus on putting automation around the processes for monitoring and detection using splunk and dynatrace. There will also be aspects of automation using ansible to start up and shut down the environment, ensuring the devops processes are running smoothly.

Primary responsibilities include:

• 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