Platform Engineer
JOB DESCRIPTION:Joining an agile team in the Financial Crimes space supporting an application upgrade in 2025. Moving from 6.3 to Viya on the SAS AML application.MUST HAVE:Platform Engineering backgroundSAS AML Viya experience, hands on configuration and developmentLinuxbackgroundBe able to come into office 5x a week (subject to change)Job Summary:Responsible for building outstanding software solutions to drive the success of a business. Build various aspects of the company's infrastructure to power innumerable conversations at scale.Primary Responsibilities:Maintain the company platform uptime, performance, stability, and scalabilityDesign, guide, mentor and challenge system architecture and design with othersDevelop and maintain a public APIDevelop best possible, most robust, and extensible solutions from feature requestsWork with big data technology (Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, etc)Work with Data Scientists to develop rich value-added featuresWork with DBA to create ETL and Data Warehouse systemWork with Operations to automate solutions and increase service reliabilityClosely monitor all platform related production systemsBuilding 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.Qualifications: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.Nice To HaveApplication Upgrades