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Senior Platform Developer II
| Company | Capital Rx |
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| Location | New York, NY, USA |
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| Salary | $180000 – $200000 |
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| Type | Full-Time |
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| Degrees | |
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| Experience Level | Senior, Expert or higher |
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Requirements
- 8+ years of experience as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Site Reliability Engineer.
- Deep expertise in AWS infrastructure and services including but not limited to EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, VPC, CloudWatch, SQS, SNS, IAM, Kinesis
- Excellent proficiency with Terraform, Python, SQL, and automation tooling.
- Extensive experience with Docker and container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS).
- Solid understanding and hands-on experience with SQL, database administration (PostgreSQL preferred), and performance tuning
- Experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., GoCD, GitHub Actions, Harness).
- Proven experience in automating Observability & Monitoring (Grafana, Kibana, Prometheus), standardizing incident response for alerts to maintain SLAs and SLOs
- Hands-on experience in environments compliant with FISMA, SOC 2, and/or FedRAMP.
- Background in building highly scalable, performant SaaS platforms.
- Excellent communication, collaboration and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including developers, IT security & compliance, product manager, and scrum masters.
- Strong experience in production on call rotations and responding to alerts.
Responsibilities
- Architect, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure platform & infrastructure
- Develop and maintain robust automation pipelines for continuous delivery (CI/CD), and infrastructure provisioning tools like GoCD, Harness, and Terraform
- Write clean, efficient, and well-tested Python code for automation, tooling and service development.
- Manage and optimize relational or in-memory databases, including PostgreSQL, Redshift and Redis, ensuring high performance, reliability, and data integrity.
- Administer and finetune container orchestration platforms such EKS and ECS.
- Implement and manage serverless architectures leveraging AWS Lambda for various platform functionalities.
- Collaborate closely with development teams to ensure infrastructure aligns with application requirements and best practices.
- Lead efforts in defining and enforcing security best practices across the platform, including adherence to HIPAA standards, FISMA, SOC II, and FedRAMP compliance standards.
- Monitor systems performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement proactive solutions to ensure optimal operation and scalability.
- Participate in on-call rotations to provide operational support and incident response.
- Champion Agile/Scrum methodologies, actively participating in sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.
- Mentor junior developers and contribute to a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.
- Evaluate and recommend new technologies and tools to enhance platform capabilities and efficiency.
- Develop internal tooling and automation scripts using Python and work with SQL to support operational workflows.
- Implement observability (monitoring/logging/alerting) best practices for highly available SaaS services.
- Responsible for adherence to the Capital Rx Code of Conduct including reporting of noncompliance.
Preferred Qualifications
No preferred qualifications provided.
