Platform Engineer

Job Title/Role: Platform Engineer Key Skills: AWS and Kubernetes platforms Experience: 8-10 Years’ experience Location: United States We at Coforge are hiring an experienced Senior Platform Engineer with a strong software engineering foundation and recent hands-on experience in ensuring the reliability, availability, and performance of applications and platforms. This role is to lead efforts and be responsible for both uplifting and maintaining our client’s evolving technology platforms, infrastructure, applications, and technology controls. Key Responsibilities: Coaching and mentoring fellow team members. Handle deployments to AWS and Kubernetes platforms. Provide support for the AWS and Kubernetes platforms, focusing on the customer-facing applications the team supports. Manage mobile applications in the App and Play stores, including deployments. Automate deployment processes and develop and refine infrastructure as code. Work with a global team to ensure high availability and scalability within the platform. Collaborate with SREs to resolve platform-related issues. Use Splunk and similar tools to monitor and troubleshoot platform issues. Handle content delivery by utilizing contentful templates. Qualifications: Experience as a Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) and/or Platform Engineer. Superb written and oral communication skills. Extensive experience with observability and monitoring, especially with Open Telemetry, Splunk, AppDynamics, and Datadog. Experience with AWS, Kubernetes, and/or OpenShift. Background in DevOps practices – Exposure to how pipelines are setup and how to debug issues if any error occurs as part of deployment. Scripting experience with Python, Node.js, or TypeScript. Good debugging skills to dig deep and figure out the root cause of the problem in quick turnaround time. Experience with disaster recovery, business continuity planning, Linux, and shell scripting. Possess a “Can Do” attitude, with a view to moving the business forward. Demonstrated skill and passion for operational excellence and solution delivery. Experience in applying compliance requirements, industry best practices, and external knowledge. Good to Have: A Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field Consulting experience. Deep background working in Agile methodology. Knowledge of cloud-native application architecture design patterns. Proven ability to assist in leading small to medium-sized teams. ITIL Foundation certification. AWS, Azure, or GCP certifications. Show more Show less