Job Description
Job Title: Platform Engineer
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Location: Phoenix, AZ
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Hire Type: Contract
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Skills Set: Platform engineering, DevOps, Kubernetes
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Key Responsibilities & Requirements
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- Strong hands-on experience in Kubernetes administration, upgrades, operations, and production troubleshooting.
- Experience with enterprise Kubernetes platforms, including Red Hat OpenShift and/or Rancher.
- Strong RHEL/Linux administration skills, including LVM, filesystems, RAID, server hardware, and performance troubleshooting.
- Strong networking knowledge, including TCP/IP, DNS, routing, load balancing, TLS/SSL, PKI, NIC bonding, and LACP.
- Hands-on experience with LLDP for network discovery and tcpdump for packet-level troubleshooting.
- Experience integrating Pure Storage with Kubernetes using CSI, Persistent Volumes, StorageClasses, and dynamic provisioning.
- Proficiency in Shell/Bash, Python, Ansible, and Terraform for automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
- Experience with Helm, Argo CD, Git/GitHub, GitOps, and CI/CD pipelines.
- Strong knowledge of Docker/Podman, container images, registries, networking, storage, and runtime troubleshooting.
- Experience with Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring, alerting, and performance analysis.
- Ability to design and support highly available, scalable PaaS platforms for mission-critical applications and large-scale data ingestion, ETL, and distributed processing workloads.
- Strong end-to-end troubleshooting and root-cause analysis across hardware, networking, storage, Linux, containers, Kubernetes, and applications.
- Networking fundamentals equivalent to CompTIA Network+ or CCENT-level knowledge for enterprise server configuration and validation.
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