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# Platform Engineer III

- **Company:** V-Soft Consulting Inc.
- **Location:** Cincinnati, OH, United States
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** JavaScript (Programming Language), PHP (Programming Language), Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), Amazon Web Services, Big Data, Computer Networks, Extract Transform Load (ETL), Data Warehousing, Apache Hadoop, Monitoring of Systems, Python (Programming Language), Linux System Administration, Machine Learning, Systems Development Life Cycle, Ansible, Ruby, Software Construction, Software Engineering, Google Cloud, Docker Swarm, Apache Spark, Kubernetes, Deployment Automation, Apache Kafka, Puppet, Elixir, Golang
- **Published:** July 7, 2026
- **Apply:** https://public-rest34.bullhornstaffing.com/rest-services/H85C9/query/JobBoardPost?where=id=110109&fields=id,title,publishedCategory(id,name),address(city,state),employmentType,dateLastPublished,publicDescription,isOpen,isPublic,isDeleted

## About the Role

* Experience in software/systems development.
 * Strong software development background, experience building software systems.
 * Working knowledge of at least one of the following languages: PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Elixir, Go or comparable.
 * Strong background in Linux administration.
 * Strong experience with cloud providers such as AWS, Digital Ocean, Google Cloud, etc.
 * Strong understanding of IT security best practices.
 * Experience with automation/configuration software (puppet, ansible), and/or orchestration software (docker swarm, Kubernetes, etc.).
 * Understanding of computer networks.
 * Experience with administration of at production scale.

## Description

* 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.
 * Maintain the company platform uptime, performance, stability, and scalability.
 * 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.


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