Quindar

Senior Platform Engineer

Quindar

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: ARVADACaliforniaDistrict of ColumbiaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $145,000 - $186,000 per year

Job Level

About the role

  • Architect, automate, test, deploy, and maintain a well-designed and highly available software infrastructure deployed in Kubernetes within cloud or on-premises environments.
  • Implement practices to enable DevSecOps with a focus on security and compliance for SOC2, NIST 800-171, and FedRAMP Medium controls.
  • You will own the Kubernetes deployment strategy and work with the software development team to ensure a successful architecture and software product.
  • You will help develop secure ingress and egress to customer and vendor data centers in a multi and single-tenant environment.
  • Provide best practices for availability, latency, and performance of services.
  • Spend time working directly with Quindar’s customers to ensure successful architecture deployment to both cloud environments and offline or secure facilities while ensuring alignment to a clean infrastructure vision.
  • Be a part of the engineering team of frontend and backend engineers working in an Agile Scrum environment.

Requirements

  • Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science (or related field)
  • 3+ years of professional experience as a reliability, systems, DevOps, infrastructure, or platform engineer
  • Expertise managing Kubernetes-based architecture and providing platform infrastructure in a production environment
  • Strong proficiency developing Infrastructure as Code (IAC) solutions using Terraform or alternative tools
  • Proficiency in Python and experience working with software teams developing distributed microservice software capabilities
  • Working knowledge of monitoring tools such as New Relic, DataDog, Splunk, AWS CloudWatch or similar
  • Familiarity with cloud services in AWS (preferred) / Azure / GCP and ability to make trades on cloud native vs self-hosted software capabilities
  • Understanding of networking using VPN’s, NLB/ALB’s, HTTPS, TLS, and CDN
  • Strong knowledge of Kubernetes, containerized applications, and serverless architecture
  • Strong knowledge of designing, analyzing, and troubleshooting APIs services, distributed NoSQL and relational databases, caching systems, event-driven and multi-tier architectures
  • Strong knowledge of task automation and CI/CD pipeline building, preferably with GitHub actions but not required
  • Understanding of Unix/Linux operating systems
  • Knowledge of cloud security best practices and cost-effective cloud architecture
  • Use of identity and access management via Auth0 or Okta
  • Familiarity with Git and GitHub or similar framework for version control.
Benefits
  • Comprehensive health insurance for you and your family with 100% coverage for employees.
  • We work in a cutting edge industry and you will get the opportunity to be part of a small team with a large direct impact on the success of our customers’ space missions!
  • We take work life balance very seriously. We require employees to take 15 days off but provide unlimited PTO and follow most US federal government holidays.
  • Mental health is just as important as physical so we provide quarterly health & wellness benefits.
  • We encourage employees to save for retirement and provide 4% 401(k) matching.
  • Annually we have a 4-day company offsite. Previous locations include San Francisco, Nashville, Denver, Santa Fe, New Orleans, San Diego, Bozeman, and New York City.
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Hard Skills & Tools
KubernetesInfrastructure as CodeTerraformPythonAPIsNoSQL databasesrelational databasesCI/CDtask automationcloud security
Soft Skills
communicationcollaborationproblem-solvingcustomer engagementAgile methodology
Certifications
Bachelor’s degree in Computer ScienceSOC2 complianceNIST 800-171 complianceFedRAMP Medium compliance