Fast Facts

Seeking a Senior Platform Engineer responsible for managing infrastructure and supporting platforms for the Otus application, primarily focusing on AWS EKS and Terraform.

Responsibilities: Key responsibilities include building highly available platforms, maintaining Infrastructure as Code, supporting operations tooling, and mentoring other engineers.

Skills: Requires strong expertise in Kubernetes, familiarity with scripting languages, and a solid understanding of cloud technologies and software engineering practices.

Qualifications: Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field, with a strong technical background and exceptional communication skills.

Location: Primarily remote with headquarters in Chicago, United States.

Compensation: Not provided by employer. Typical compensation ranges for this position are between $130,000 - $180,000.

Your Role

This role is responsible for owning the infrastructure that the Otus application utilizes. Along with the infrastructure you will be expected to help the Platform team support the underlying platforms that the organization relies on (observability, CICD, code and image repositories, secret management, alerting, etc.). You will support ad hoc or break in requests from other engineering teams with the organization.

Responsibilities

Support and build out highly available platforms built on public cloud infrastructure for a microservice architecture (Kubernetes using AWS EKS)
Write and maintain Infrastructure as code (Terraform)
Support contemporary operations tooling, metrics, logging and monitoring (Prometheus, New Relic, Grafana/LGTM stack)
Maintain platform and account security (Github, CICD platforms, AWS engineer accounts, etc.)
Act as a mentor to other engineers both within and outside of the Platform team

Qualifications

Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science or a related field.
Understanding of cloud first backend engineering concepts, with a focus on scalable systems (AWS preferred).
Strong technical expertise in kubernetes
Familiarity in at least one scripting language (bash, Python, Powershell, etc.)
In-depth understanding of cloud technologies and modern software engineering practices.
Have an ownership mentality for the infrastructure and all over platforms you are building.
Exceptional communication, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate across departments.
A strategic thinker with a passion for innovation and continuous improvement.
Be a lifelong learner

Benefits and Perks

Competitive salary and employee stock options

20 PTO days per year
16 paid holidays including your birthday and a day to do something you love to do
Up to 12 weeks of parental leave and a healthy work/life balance
Primarily remote team with HQ in Chicago
Excellent medical, dental, and vision insurance
Professional development / tuition reimbursement
Work-from-home allowance
Life Insurance and disability benefits
401K with an employer match (up to 4%)

Equal Opportunity

Otus is an Equal Opportunity Employer and embraces diversity of every kind. You must be legally authorized to work in the US. Unfortunately, the company is unable to support sponsorships at this time.

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