Platform Engineer

Role: Platform Engineer

Type: Contract

Duration: 6 – 12 Months

Location: Houston (Preferred), Remote (US) is also fine

Job Description:

• Seeking a Platform Engineer with strong Python skills to support Cloud and Data Platform project. Primary Responsibilities:
• Design, build, and deploy scalable software solutions across GCP and AWS, leveraging managed cloud services and best practices.
• Implement cloud-native (primarily GCP) software using serverless architectures and containerization technologies like Docker and Kubernetes.
• Document and support data and/or AI related software applications and components.
• Troubleshoot data and AI software and environment issues.
• Monitor and optimize data and inference pipelines to ensure optimal performance and resource utilization.
• Work closely and collaborate with other internal software development and support teams.

Required Skills:

• 6+ years of full software development lifecycle (requirements, design, code, test, deploy, document, support) experience.
• Expertise in data warehousing and data lake concepts
• Deep understanding of and experience with object-oriented design and implementation techniques, and design patterns.
• API design and implementation experience.
• Deep cloud-centric (one or both Azure and GCP) software design, development, deployment, monitoring, and support experience.
• Good grasp of software scaling concepts and how to apply those concepts in a cloud-based environment.
• Strong Python programming experience.
• Knowledge of version control software and usage, ADO/git preferred.
• Self-starter who can work both independently (with minimal supervision) as well as within a collaborative team setting.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.

Bonus Skills:

• Databricks/Spark experience.
• Good understanding and use of RDBMS-related technologies and techniques.
• Terraform scripting.
• Azure Dev Ops build and deployment pipeline YAML scripting.

Required Education/Experience:

• Bachelors degree in information systems, computer science, or related technical field.