Platform Engineer & Production Support
Strategic Staffing Solutions
Irving, United States of America
12 days ago
Role details
Contract type
Permanent contract Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours) Working hours
Regular working hours Languages
English Experience level
Intermediate Compensation
$ 204KJob location
Remote
Irving, United States of America
Tech stack
Java
Relational Databases
DevOps
Distributed Systems
Python
Openshift
Red Hat Enterprise Linux - RHEL
Reliability Engineering
Site Reliability Engineering Practices
Prometheus
Software Engineering
Cloud Platform System
Spring Cloud
React
Grafana
Spring-boot
Mttr
Build Management
Kubernetes
Kafka
Splunk
Appdynamics
ServiceNow
Microservices
Job description
- Lead production support efforts across a portfolio of 20+ applications, ensuring stability, performance, and rapid issue resolution
- Design and build advanced observability, monitoring, and alerting dashboards using Grafana, Splunk, AppDynamics, Prometheus, and related tools
- Proactively identify risks through gap analysis, anomaly detection, predictive alerting, and intelligent monitoring
- Troubleshoot complex production issues across distributed microservices environments and reduce MTTR
- Drive adoption of modern SRE practices including automation, AIOps, and intelligent monitoring solutions
- Support cloud-native applications running on OpenShift and Kubernetes platforms
- Collaborate with development teams during release cycles to ensure production readiness and operational support
- Participate in a 24x7 on-call rotation and respond with urgency during production incidents
- Mentor engineers and promote best practices across SRE, DevOps, and platform engineering disciplines
- Operate effectively across multiple responsibilities in high-pressure production environments
Requirements
Do you have experience in Systems & applications support?, The ideal candidate will be a hands-on engineer with strong Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, and production support expertise who can operate effectively in fast-paced, production-critical environments., * 10+ years of platform engineering and production support experience
- 5+ years of experience with:
- RedHat Linux
- OpenShift
- Kubernetes
- Java
- Microservices
- Spring Boot
- Python
- 5+ years of observability dashboard creation experience using:
- Grafana
- Splunk
- SPLOC
- AppDynamics
- 5+ years of observability alerting and incident management experience using:
- AIOps
- ServiceNow
- BigPanda
- 4+ years of experience with:
- React.js
- Apache Kafka
- Relational databases
- 4+ years of experience with:
- Distributed systems
- Microservices architecture
- Cloud-native platforms
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience within financial services environments
- Prior software development experience, particularly within Java-based ecosystems
Benefits & conditions
3.63.6 out of 5 stars Irving, TX 75016 Hybrid work $98 an hour - Contract