Sr. Staff Software Platform Engineer

We are seeking for a Sr. Staff Platform Engineer with 8+ years of professional experience in an exciting fast-paced production environment to support AWS Cloud infrastructure for our customer facing e-commerce sites and internal sales agent application.   

Responsibilities: 

• Deploy and automate infrastructure & platform services in Public Clouds preferably in AWS Cloud using Infrastructure as Code, ie Cloudformation, Terraform, CDK, etc. 

• Research and implement new technological subsystems to modernize our infrastructure and work with various groups to maintain our high uptimes and deliverables to various business partners. 

• Implement automation and industry best practices to run our large-scale, rapidly growing infrastructure to reduce manual effort and increase team efficiency.   

• Prioritize and address production and non-production issues in a timely manner and provide future avoidance solution. 

• Drive observability best practices, ie monitoring, alerting, logging, etc to understand the health and availability of infrastructure and applications across Engineering organization. 

• Configure and maintain software components, i.e., operating systems, web servers, application environments through Python and Bash in a highly customized environment. 

• Participate in team follow the sun (24x7x365) on-call rotation and improve on-call practices and procedures. 

• Drive processes improvement and engineering best practices across organization. 

• Lead innovation in designs of major components, systems and features. 

• Collaborate with cross-functional departments and teams to complete engineering initiatives. 

• Mentor platform engineers on the team. 

• Manage the design of project deadlines, priorities and deliverables 

• Participate in weekly releases and OS patching of infrastructure on regular basis to keep it secure. 

Requirements: 

• Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields.   

• Must have 8+ years of hands-on public cloud AWS experience, ie EBS, EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront etc. 

• Must have 8+ years of hands-on experience with Infrastructure as code, ie Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK. 

• Must have 8+ years of hands-on experience with Platform Engineering building an IDP in the area but not limited to DevOps, GitOps, Observability, Security, Network, etc.   

• 8+ year’s professional hands-on strong experience administering Linux operating system environment, preferably in CentOS or RedHat 

• 8+ years of professional experience in managing highly available SaaS environment as a DevOps Engineer/ Systems Engineer. 

• Proficiency in scripting in Bash and Python automation must be part of your DNA. 

• Good working knowledge of enterprise Storage and Backup environments. 

• Application experience with web technologies such as Apache, Tomcat  etc. 

• Solid understanding of technology stack fundamentals such as TCP/IP, HTTP, NFS, SMTP , SFTP, LDAP ,TLS etc. 

• Strong operational experience with monitoring infrastructure toolsets such as  Nagios, ELK ,  Prometheus etc. 

• Experience with Docker, AWS EKS and Nginx Ingress controller is a plus. 

• Must have strong analytical and troubleshooting skills. 

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with the ability to work in a dynamic high growth environment. 

• Attention to details and dedication to quality and automation. 

• Must be fluent with English speaking.  

PLEASE NO AGENCIES. We are NOT able to hire contractors through a 3rd party. We are ONLY considering direct, full-time employment with eHealth in the US. 

• Please include a link to your LinkedIn profile, Github, and/or portfolio of your work that you’d like to share with the hiring team. Profiles with these will be prioritized

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