Platform/Software Engineer

Flexion Inc. a Madison, WI based IT Consulting and Services firm is looking for a Platform/Software Engineer to work on a long-term consulting project. The client for this position is based in Madison, WI, but work for this position can be done remotely in the United States.

The most efficient way to reach our recruiting team is to submit your resume through the URL provided. 

This person Position will work on a Platform Services team with an initial focus on either private cloud service delivery or the delivery of infrastructure solutions running across both public (AWS, GCP and Azure) and private cloud environments, supporting on-premise infrastructure services with an emphasis on leveraging infrastructure as code to provide application hosting services.

Role accountabilities:

• Develop, enhance and maintain tools, systems and software solutions
• Develop, integrate, and test systems, solutions, or products.
• Performs incident triage, including determining scope, urgency, and potential impact. Makes recommendations that enable expeditious remediation.
• Conducts technology evaluations and re-engineering activities to support strategy definition and continuous improvement activities.
• Build strong relationships with Peers across functions through collaborative engineering operations and initiatives.
• Design and implement automated solutions to enable development needs
• Designs and develops system/solution measures to ensure solutions are fully integrated. Validates current and future-state architectural models to assess impact across all technology systems.
• Leads, analyzes and responds to the changing system/solution of the company and our clients with agility and flexibility.
• Analyzes gaps and recommends mitigating and compensating controls.  Leads and participates in outage/SWAT meetings to mitigate system/solution issues.
• Implements service catalog automation working with key partners within Enterprise technology and security teams

Required skills/experience:

• Demonstrated experience providing customer-driven solutions, support or service
• At least three years of DevOps related experience including working with Cloud platforms
• At least three years of Software Engineering experience
• Solid knowledge and understanding of SDLC (e.g. development, configuration, deployment, testing, configuration, deployment, monitoring etc.).
• Solid knowledge and understanding of infrastructure technologies and application technologies.
• At least three years of System Administration experience (configurations, installations, patch management, server maintenance, etc.) and Network Management (firewalls, proxies, IP management, routing, DNS)
• Demonstrated experience establishing, using and supporting integration and communication protocols between applications, databases, and technology platforms.

In addition to the experience outlined above, the ideal candidate will have experience with at least a subset of the following:

• automation of infrastructure delivery with configuration orchestration and management solutions (e.g. Ansible, Puppet, Terraform)
• understanding of coding practices and developing in a preferred scripting language (e.g. PowerShell, Python, UNIX Shell Scripting)
• experience with Operating System hardening practices as well as methodologies for templating deployments from a set of standardized images
• experience with Linux and Windows systems engineering principles
• enterprise wide implementation of backup and recovery solutions to deliver data resiliency
• familiarity with application server (e.g. JBoss EAP, Tomcat) and middleware solutions (e.g. ActiveMQ, IBM MQ, Kafka)
• supporting the migration of applications to public cloud providers (AWS, GCP or Azure) and / or the securing of public cloud providers for application service delivery

The hourly pay rate for this position is in the $55-65/hr range. 

Equal Employment Opportunity