Platform Engineer Job

PLATFORM ENGINEER needed for a CONTRACT opportunity with Yoh's client located in Van Buren, MI.

WHAT YOU'LL BE DOING:

The Platform Engineer - AppFactory is responsible for assisting businesses in re-factoring and migrating their applications to cloud providers. In this role, you will work closely with business application owners and enterprise architects to create and leverage best practices, mentor teams, and provide technical domain expertise to accelerate migrating applications to the cloud.

- Work closely with application owners to understand the purpose and functionality of the applications to improve the success of migrations
- Provide architectural consultation to application teams utilizing best practices, design patterns and standards in modifying and migrating applications to public and hybrid cloud environments
- Educate and mentor peers and application teams on best practices for deploying, modifying and migrating existing applications into cloud-aware applications
- Guide app team on code refactoring methods and techniques
- Document best practices, design patterns and standards that will be common to multiple applications.
- Participate in architecture and code reviews
- Assist application teams with integrating applications into operational services and processes
- Participate on multiple agile scrum teams, interacting with other team members including business application teams, quality assurance, and project management

WHAT YOU NEED TO BRING TO THE TABLE:

- Bachelor's degree in computer science, information systems, engineering, analytics or a related field, or equivalent years of work experience
- Minimum of two (2) years of experience with designing, deploying and migrating highly available multi-tiered applications to public cloud providers (AWS and/or Azure preferred)
- Minimum of four (4) years of experience with deploying, upgrading and administering one or more of the following technologies: Middleware (Red Hat JBoss, Wildfly, Apache tomcat, WebLogic), web (Apache httpd, Microsoft IIS, Nginx, HAProxy, Varnish), and/or messaging (IBM MQ, ActiveMQ, RabbitMQ)
- Minimum of one (1) year of experience with designing, deploying and migrating highly available multi-tiered applications to public cloud providers (AWS or Azure preferred)

BONUS POINTS! OTHERWISE KNOWN AS PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS:

- Experience in providing solution architecture in a cloud-based environment for performance, availability, scalability, interoperability, and maintainability
- Strong understanding of application and platform security in enterprise environments
- Experience with writing and developing SOAP and REST web services
- Experience with one or more Scripting languages such as Perl, Ruby, Python or PowerShell
- Working knowledge of Client Server applications and relational databases
- Working knowledge of application and data integration technologies and patterns
- Experience designing high availability and disaster recovery solutions and strategies
- Proven track record of delivering excellent results in a fast paced environment
- Demonstrated ability to work independently
- Change oriented - actively generates process improvements; champions and drives change initiatives
- Strong team player - collaborates well with others to solve problems and actively incorporates input from various sources
- Highly organized and efficient; able to balance competing priorities and execute accordingly
- Strong interpersonal skills including written (eg documents, PowerPoint), verbal and listening
- Strong facilitation and influencing skills
- Strong analytical and strong problem solving skills - effectively evaluates information/data to make decisions; anticipates obstacles and develops plans to resolve
- Customer focus - builds solutions and evaluates decisions through a customer lens

IF THIS SOUNDS LIKE YOU, APPLY NOW!

RECRUITER: Patrick Lindsley

Yoh, a DayJ2W; INFOTECH

TAX TERM: CON_W2J2WNWIT

Ref:

Enterprise: IT & Telecom