Platform Engineer IV

Our client seeks a Platform Engineer IV to build and maintain scalable Java and Angular services with Spring Boot for a high-availability platform. The role focuses on platform uptime, performance, stability, and public API development while collaborating across data science, operations, and database teams. Experience with big data tooling, cloud infrastructure, and automation will support reliable deployments and observability at scale., * Maintain platform uptime, performance, stability, and scalability.

• Design, guide, and challenge system architecture and design while mentoring peers.
• Develop and maintain a public API.
• Deliver robust and extensible solutions from feature requests.
• Work with big data technologies such as Kafka, Hadoop, and Spark.
• Collaborate with Data Scientists to deliver value-added features.
• Partner with DBAs to create ETL and Data Warehouse systems.
• Collaborate with Operations to automate solutions and increase service reliability.
• Monitor all production systems related to the platform.
• Build tools and processes for analytics, monitoring, machine learning, and data warehousing platforms.
• Define and implement strategies from networking and backups to fog computing configuration and deployments.
• Provision, configure, maintain, back up, and monitor onsite and cloud server resources.
• Define and implement deployment strategies for client-facing and internal systems.
• Continuously improve alerting and monitoring systems.

Due to client requirements, applicants must be willing and able to work on a w2 basis. For our w2 consultants, we offer a great benefits package that includes Medical, Dental, and Vision benefits, 401k with company matching, and life insurance., * 5 to 20 years of software and systems development experience.

• Strong software development background with experience building software systems.
• Java with Spring Boot for backend services.
• Angular for front-end development.
• Working knowledge of at least one among PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Elixir, or Go.
• Strong Linux administration experience.
• Strong experience with cloud providers such as AWS, Digital Ocean, or Google Cloud.
• Strong understanding of IT security best practices.
• Experience with automation and configuration tools such as Puppet or Ansible.
• Experience with container orchestration such as Docker Swarm or Kubernetes.
• Understanding of computer networks.
• Experience operating and administering systems at production scale.
• AWS (preferred).
• Kafka (preferred).
• Python (preferred).

Skills, experience, and other compensable factors will be considered when determining pay rate. The pay range provided in this posting reflects a W2 hourly rate; other employment options may be available that may result in pay outside of the provided range.

W2 employees of Eliassen Group who are regularly scheduled to work 30 or more hours per week are eligible for the following benefits: medical (choice of 3 plans), dental, vision, pre-tax accounts, other voluntary benefits including life and disability insurance, 401(k) with match, and sick time if required by law in the worked-in state/locality.

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Eliassen Group is a strategic consulting firm that helps organizations reach further and achieve more through our technology, business advisory, and life sciences solutions. For nearly 40 years, we have combined exceptional people, deep domain expertise, and intelligent capabilities to expand our clients' capacity and accelerate meaningful outcomes. We are driven by a purpose to positively impact the lives of our employees, clients, consultants, and the communities we serve.