Sr. Platform Engineer (SRE / Linux / FTE)

Req ID: 337931

NTT DATA strives to hire exceptional, innovative and passionate individuals who want to grow with us. If you want to be part of an inclusive, adaptable, and forward-thinking organization, apply now.

We are currently seeking a Sr. Platform Engineer (SRE / Linux / FTE) to join our team in Phoenix, Arizona (US-AZ), United States (US).

Job Duties and Responsibilities:

• 5+ years’ hands-on admin experience at the platform and application tiers supporting critical Customer Facing applications, preferably in the Financial Services Industry
• 5+ years of experience troubleshooting environments across the entire architecture (i.e., applications to infrastructure)
• 3+ years of hands-on Linux administration experience
• 3+ experience with Oracle SQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, Flink, Postgres, or similar data technologies
• 1+ Years supporting and monitoring service load balancing architectures including F5 & VMware AVI

Hard Skills:

• Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) Skills – Ability to apply your expert troubleshooting and optimization skills up and down the full stack, ensuring that critical applications/services are engineered for scalability, availability & resiliency including graceful degradation of service, fault isolation and quick recovery to minimize customer impact
• Provide highly advanced technical expertise to maximize efficiency, reliability and value from current solutions, infrastructure, platforms and emerging technologies, showing technical leadership, and driving continuous improvement efforts
• Ability to identify root-cause issues, articulate corrective actions and improvement opportunities, and design approaches/programs/products to improve overall quality assurance
• Strong knowledge of Observability/Monitoring tools & their application (i.e., Glassbox, Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, BigPanda AIOps, etc.)
• Intermediate/expert level ability to use automation and configuration management tools for provisioning using Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Jenkins, GitLab and Liquibase.
• Functional knowledge of programming scripting such as JavaScript, PowerShell, Python, Bash, SQL, .NET, Java, PHP, Ruby, PERL, C++, R, etc.
• Cloud Architect or Engineer Certification (i.e. GCP, Azure, AWS, etc.) – Preferably GCP ACE

Soft Skills:

• Collaborate well within a Global Platform Engineering Team being technically competent & confident but not arrogant
• Ability and willingness to quickly learn new technologies & tools and can effectively train your peers
• Ability to adapt to a rapidly changing environment
• Ability to communicate highly complex technical information clearly and articulately for all levels and audiences

Job Expectations:

• Flexibility to work in a 7x12 support environment, including weekends and holidays within a Team on-call engineer rotation schedule
• Due OT Budget restrictions, most likely contractors will primarily work a normal US business weekday shift schedule but the flexibility to cover off hours if needed is a must

Basic Qualifications:

• 3-5 years of experience in Red Hat Linux Administration

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