Platform Engineer

Platform Engineer (AWS, Digital Ocean, Google Cloud, Azure) - 6 Month ContractLocation: 100% Remote (MUST LIVE IN OHIO); Pay Rate: $70.00 - $80.00 - Depends on Type of Platform and Multiple. NO (C2C, OPT, H1B, Sponsorship)CBTS is searching for a Platform Engineer. 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. 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. Requirements: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 at production scale.CBTS provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a protected veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.