Senior Platform Engineer II
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JobgetherPlatform engineering
Opportunity to work remotely from India, subject to the applicable working arrangements.Full-TimeSenior
Salary not disclosed
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Job Details
- Experience
- At least 7 years of hands-on experience in platform engineering
- Required Skills
- AWSPythonGCPMicrosoft AzureTerraformAnsibleGitHub Actions
Requirements
- At least 7 years of hands-on platform engineering experience, including substantial enterprise Linux administration.
- Expert-level Linux administration across RHEL 8/9, Ubuntu 22.04/24.04, and Amazon Linux 2/2023.
- Experience with kernel and security patching, package and service administration, user and permission management, SSH configuration, logging, and production troubleshooting.
- Practical experience with controlled patch deployments, canary rollouts, rollback procedures, and Linux lifecycle management, including dnf history.
- Strong knowledge of CIS security benchmarks and experience applying them through Ansible Lockdown, remediating failed controls, and managing documented policy exceptions.
- Advanced Ansible skills for configuration management, automated patching, security hardening, and platform provisioning.
- Experience with golden images and third-party AMIs, including bootstrap configuration, automation keys, domain joining, and agent installation.
- Advanced hands-on experience managing Linux workloads across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud.
- Strong Terraform expertise and experience building standardized Linux images using Packer or AWS Image Builder.
- Experience designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or comparable tools.
- Experience remediating Qualys vulnerability QIDs and CIS compliance CIDs, and working with SonarQube, Veracode, Snyk, or StackHawk.
- Ability to diagnose complex operating system, networking, storage, authentication, and performance issues and lead root-cause analysis.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, operate, and troubleshoot enterprise UNIX/Linux platforms throughout their lifecycle.
- Lead Linux vulnerability remediation, security hardening, compliance validation, and audit readiness.
- Plan and execute operating system patching, kernel updates, platform upgrades, and fleet maintenance using controlled rollouts and rollback procedures.
- Develop and maintain infrastructure automation using Ansible, Python, Shell scripting, APIs, and infrastructure-as-code tools.
- Manage Linux workloads across AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud, including provisioning, bootstrap processes, platform images, and lifecycle management.
- Build and maintain standardized, secure Linux images using Packer or AWS Image Builder.
- Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines to automate patching, security hardening, compliance checks, and operational procedures.
- Integrate security scanning tools into CI/CD workflows and remediate vulnerabilities and compliance findings.
- Improve platform reliability through monitoring, diagnostics, automated remediation, self-healing capabilities, and observability enhancements.
- Resolve complex operating system, networking, storage, authentication, and performance issues; support incident, problem, change, and on-call operations.
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