18th November, 2025
Platform Engineer #1043620
Job Description:
- Employees in this job function are focused on developing and maintaining reusable software components that serve the needs of product developers in the organization.
- They are responsible for designing, implementing, integrating and maintaining the underlying infrastructure and software applications that support developer productivity and self-service.
Key Responsibilities: - Collaborate with enterprise architects, software architects, software engineering teams, etc. to design the platform infrastructure and tools encompassing servers, networks, storage, databases, cloud services, etc.
- Implement and manage the infrastructure that supports the platform tools and ensuring that upgrades, security patches and other performance improvements are regularly performed.
- Evaluate cloud providers, containerization solutions and other complex technologies to deeply understand the configurations available and create abstractions of common configurations that can be utilized easily by application teams for their workloads
- Write and execute automated Infrastructure as Code scripts and utilize processes like CI/CD to streamline and automate how the platform infrastructure is provisioned, configured and managed to improve consistency, traceability and repeatability
- Integrate performance and monitoring best practices including QoS and SLA metrics to scale platform applications and managed services automatically due to demand.
- Incorporate security and disaster recovery best practices into the infrastructure applications by integrating access control, identity management, logging/monitoring, public/private network configurations, data encryption, storage backup and disaster recovery, etc.
- Facilitate the integration of enterprise managed software configurations into deployment pipelines managed by application teams to ensure approved configurations and best practices around security, networking, logging & monitoring, performance & scale, etc. are applied
- Advocating feedback with service providers and developers, to ensure the platform continues to grow and evolve to meet their needs
Skills Required: - Scripting
- Automation
- Root Cause Analysis
- Troubleshooting (Problem Solving)
- Cloud Architecture
- IT Solutions
- GitHub
- Cloud Infrastructure
- Change Management
- Technical Analysis
- Developer
- Tekton
- Utilization Management
- Kubernetes
Skills Preferred: - Ansible
- GCP
- Dynatrace
- PowerShell
- Access Controls
- Python
- Information Security
- VMware
Experience Required: - Engineer Exp: Prac. In 2 coding lang. or adv.
- in 1 lang.
- 6+ years in IT;
- 4+ years in development
Education Required: - Associate Degree
- College Senior
Education Preferred: - Certification Program
- Bachelor's Degree
Additional Information: - Conduct capacity planning and forecasting for the OpenShift Virtualization platform, including compute, memory, storage, and network resources, to ensure scalability and prevent resource exhaustion.
- Analyze resource utilization trends and make recommendations for infrastructure scaling, consolidation, or optimization.
- Collaborate with application teams and stakeholders to understand future demand and project capacity needs.
- Develop and maintain capacity models and reports to support strategic planning.
- Develop automation solutions (scripts, playbooks) for repetitive OSV tasks, including configuration changes, VM management, auditing, remediation and integration with ticketing systems
- Leverage automation to enable delivering operator updates and changes efficiently at scale
- Implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and practices to improve overall platform stability, performance, and operational efficiency
- Role Based Access Control deployment and auditing
- Namespace and Resource Quota management
- Implement and maintain comprehensive end to end observability solutions (monitoring, logging, tracing) for the OSV environment, including integration with tools like Dynatrace and Prometheus/Grafana
- Explore and implement Event Driven Architecture (EDA) for enhanced real time monitoring and response.
- Develop capabilities to flag and report abnormalities and identify "blind spots" in observability
- Perform deep dive Root Cause Analysis (RCA), potentially utilizing available tooling, to quickly identify and resolve issues across the global compute environment
- Find the needle in a haystack/unhealthy bits in the compute universe (Globally) for faster time to resolution
- Monitor VM health, resource usage, and performance metrics proactively
- Monitor for unusual activity that might indicate a compromise or misconfiguration
- Solution Design & Consulting
- Knowledge Management
Additional Info: At FastTek Global,
Our Purpose is
Our People and
Our Planet. We come to work each day and are reminded we are
helping people find their success stories. Also,
Doing the right thing is our mantra. We act responsibly, give back to the communities we serve and have a little fun along the way.
We have been doing this with pride, dedication and plain, old-fashioned hard work for
24 years!
FastTek Global is financially strong, privately held company that is
100% consultant and
client focused.
We've differentiated ourselves by being
fast, flexible, creative and
honest. Throw out everything you've heard, seen, or felt about every other IT Consulting company. We do unique things and we do them for Fortune 10, Fortune 500, and technology start-up companies.
Our benefits are second to none and thanks to our
flexible benefit options you can choose the benefits you need or want, options include:
- Medical and Dental (FastTek pays majority of the medical program)
- Vision
- Personal Time Off (PTO) Program
- Long Term Disability (100% paid)
- Life Insurance (100% paid)
- 401(k) with immediate vesting and 3% (of salary) dollar-for-dollar match
Plus, we have a lucrative employee referral program and an employee recognition culture.
FastTek Global was named one of the
Top Work Places in Michigan by the Detroit Free Press in
2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018, 2019,
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AI & Hiring Disclosure We use AI tools to support parts of our hiring process, such as reviewing applications and identifying potential matches. These tools are designed to promote efficiency, consistency, and fairness, and they are always used under human oversight.
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