Platform Engineer

Job Title: Platform Engineer

Location: Phoenix, AZ

Hire Type: Contract

Skills Set: Platform engineering, DevOps, Kubernetes

Key Responsibilities & Requirements

• Strong hands-on experience in Kubernetes administration, upgrades, operations, and production troubleshooting.
• Experience with enterprise Kubernetes platforms, including Red Hat OpenShift and/or Rancher.
• Strong RHEL/Linux administration skills, including LVM, filesystems, RAID, server hardware, and performance troubleshooting.
• Strong networking knowledge, including TCP/IP, DNS, routing, load balancing, TLS/SSL, PKI, NIC bonding, and LACP.
• Hands-on experience with LLDP for network discovery and tcpdump for packet-level troubleshooting.
• Experience integrating Pure Storage with Kubernetes using CSI, Persistent Volumes, StorageClasses, and dynamic provisioning.
• Proficiency in Shell/Bash, Python, Ansible, and Terraform for automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).
• Experience with Helm, Argo CD, Git/GitHub, GitOps, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Strong knowledge of Docker/Podman, container images, registries, networking, storage, and runtime troubleshooting.
• Experience with Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring, alerting, and performance analysis.
• Ability to design and support highly available, scalable PaaS platforms for mission-critical applications and large-scale data ingestion, ETL, and distributed processing workloads.
• Strong end-to-end troubleshooting and root-cause analysis across hardware, networking, storage, Linux, containers, Kubernetes, and applications.
• Networking fundamentals equivalent to CompTIA Network+ or CCENT-level knowledge for enterprise server configuration and validation.