Availity

Platform Engineer IV, EKS, Observability

Availity

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: Remote • 🇺🇸 United States

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Job Level

SeniorLead

Tech Stack

AWSCloudEC2GrafanaKubernetesLinuxPrometheusSplunkTerraform

About the role

  • Own and evolve our Kubernetes (EKS/Istio) control plane at enterprise scale
  • Lead the tooling and support for observability and logging (New Relic, Splunk, Cribl, OpenTelemetry) with reliability as your north star
  • Oversee our EC2 application deployment pipelines and other mission-critical internal platforms in our AWS private cloud
  • Guide and mentor engineers while setting the bar for operational excellence
  • Provide technical leadership for the infrastructure engineering and operations team focused on Kubernetes, observability, and platform services
  • Managing observability and logging platforms including: Splunk (EKS + on-prem components, forwarders, deployment server)
  • Supporting legacy/on-prem platforms as they migrate into AWS (Tidal, Aries pipelines, provider Splunk, legacy base images)

Requirements

  • Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field, or equivalent work experience
  • 7-10 years of relevant technical and business experience in IT systems delivery, operations, and support (preferably in healthcare or high-transaction environments)
  • 3+ years of experience leading technical engineering efforts involving implementation and management of IT systems
  • Hands-on expertise with Kubernetes/EKS administration at scale
  • Terraform, Helm, and AWS services (VPC, IAM, EC2, EKS, Istio)
  • Observability and monitoring tools: Splunk, Cribl, Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, New Relic
  • Linux (RHEL-based) systems administration, including SELinux
  • Experience bridging infrastructure and development teams, ensuring alignment of roadmaps and goals
  • Strong leadership skills with the ability to motivate and guide technical teams
  • Excellent communication skills, with the ability to explain complex technical concepts to both technical and non-technical stakeholders
Benefits
  • Competitive salary
  • Bonus structure
  • Generous HSA company contribution
  • Healthcare benefits
  • Vision benefits
  • Dental benefits
  • 401k match program
  • Unlimited PTO for salaried associates
  • 9 paid holidays
  • Reimbursement for gym memberships
  • Education reimbursement
  • Paid Parental Leave

Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard skills
KubernetesEKSIstioTerraformHelmAWSLinuxSELinuxobservabilitymonitoring
Soft skills
leadershipcommunicationmentoringtechnical guidanceteam motivationcollaborationalignment of roadmapsexplanation of technical concepts
Certifications
Bachelor's degree in computer science