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For more than three decades, Strategic Data Systems (SDS) has been a software consultancy firm specializing in strategy, technology, and business transformation for Fortune 100 companies, mid-sized firms, and startups. At SDS, we empower our development teams to address our clients’ critical business challenges by leveraging cutting edge technologies. If you seek a workplace where your contributions are truly appreciated, then SDS is the company for you. Join us today to work alongside fellow development specialists and become a crucial part of our dynamic and cohesive community.
 
Job Title: 1511 Platform Engineer III
Location: Remote - USA
 
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What You’ll Do
 Responsible for building outstanding software solutions to drive the success of a business. Build various aspects of the company's infrastructure to power innumerable conversations at scale.

Primary Responsibilities:
• Maintain the company platform uptime, performance, stability, and scalability
• Design, guide, mentor and challenge system architecture and design with others
• Develop and maintain a public API
• Develop best possible, most robust, and extensible solutions from feature requests
• Work with big data technology (Kafka, Hadoop, Spark, etc)
• Work with Data Scientists to develop rich value-added features
• Work with DBA to create ETL and Data Warehouse system
• Work with Operations to automate solutions and increase service reliability
• Closely monitor all platform related production systems
• Building tools and processes to support analytics, monitoring, machine-learning and data-warehousing platforms.
• Define and implement various strategies covering everything from subnets to backups to fog networking/computing configuration and deployments.
• Provision, configure, maintain, backup, and monitor onsite and cloud based server resources.
• Define and implement deployment strategies for client-facing and internal tool systems.
• Continual improvement and fine-tuning of various alerting and monitoring systems.

Qualifications:
• Experience in software/systems development.
• Strong software development background, experience building software systems.
• Working knowledge of at least one of the following languages: PHP, Ruby, Python, JavaScript, Elixir, Go or comparable. • Strong background in Linux administration.
• Strong experience with cloud providers such as AWS, Digital Ocean, Google Cloud, etc.
• Strong understanding of IT security best practices.
• Experience with automation/configuration software (puppet, ansible), and/or orchestration software (docker swarm, kubernetes, etc).
• Understanding of computer networks.
• Experience with administration of at production scale.
 
What You’ll Get
 
SDS, Inc. provides equal employment opportunities (EEO) to all employees and applicants for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, sexual orientation, national origin, age, disability, genetic information, marital status, amnesty, or status as a covered veteran in accordance with applicable federal, state, and local laws.
 

• Competitive base salary
• Medical, dental, and vision insurance coverage
• Optional life and disability insurance provided
• 401(k) with a company match and optional profit sharing
• Paid vacation time
• Paid Bench time
• Training allowance offering
• You’ll be eligible to earn referral bonuses!

 

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