
Senior Platform Engineer
Quindar
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: ARVADA • California • District of Columbia • United 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