Job Description
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 3rd 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:
• 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.
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Required Skills & Experience
9+ years of experience working with Oracle and Lunix administration
5+ years of experience with PHP, Perl, or Python
5+ years of experience with Puppet or Ansible
5+ years of experience with Dyantrace and splunk
Experience in financial payments systems such as MTS – Money Transfer System, or UPF – Universal Payment Framework
Nice to Have Skills & Experience
Experience working in AWS cloud
Benefit packages for this role will start on the 31st day of employment and include medical, dental, and vision insurance, as well as HSA, FSA, and DCFSA account options, and 401k retirement account access with employer matching. Employees in this role are also entitled to paid sick leave and/or other paid time off as provided by applicable law.