Platform Engineer

Job Summary:

The Platform Engineer is a key role for interfacing with developers, technical and business leaders to create innovative solutions that meet business goals and objectives. Core competencies for this position are focused on process automation, solution design and operational support. Key responsibilities for this role include service design, cloud managed services, build and deploy pipelines, and performance engineering.

Job Location - Louisville, KY (In office)

Essential Functions:

• Engineering, designing and supporting automated, self-healing cloud-based solutions for business applications.
• Foster innovation and solutions for infrastructure automation, application delivery and related processes.
• Design, manage and support code pipelines.
• Run capacity and performance testing to determine scaling and utilization parameters for various service tiers. Collect and analyze performance data, summarize results, and prepare presentation of results for review and baselining.
• Solve functional and performance issues. Work with teams to facilitate automation of the release process, while ensuring correct access controls and securing applications.
• Monitoring test/dev and production environments.
• Identify and troubleshoot incidents when they arise and see them through resolution.
• Work with project teams in order to meet deadlines.
• Appropriate level of documentation for all projects, RCAs and daily tasks.
• Other duties as assigned by Management.

Required Skills/Abilities:

• Experience in designing, deploying, and supporting on-premises and cloud-based infrastructure running high-volume transactional applications
• Expertise with Linux administration and deployments in large environments
• Experience with AWS infrastructure and managed services
• Experience deploying and supporting configuration management tools such as Puppet, Chef, or Ansible
• Experience with Agile and other software development methodologies
• Ability to implement code pipelines to enable CI/CD
• Ability to quickly learn complex systems, infrastructure services and network-related technologies
• Team player with excellent communication and relationship skills - verbal and written
• Strong experience with the following:
• AWS managed services
• Cloud Formation and/or Terraform
• Programming languages: Java, JavaScript, Python, Ruby or PHP
• Good to have experience with:
• Working experience with application performance monitoring (APM) tools
• Working experience with load testing tools such as jMeter, Locust and Cloud Test
• Mandatory rotating on-call schedule

• Ability to be licensed as an Employee by various racing and gaming jurisdictions in which we operate, as required.
• Authorized to work in the US on a full-time basis

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor of Science in Information Science/Systems, or equivalent experience and industry certifications
• 5+ years' experience working with Linux and AWS.
• Experience with Serverless technologies and mobile platforms is a plus.

Physical Demands: The following physical and mental demands are representative of those that an employee must meet to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

• While performing the duties of this job, the employee is frequently required to sit, sometimes for prolonged periods, while working at a desk, on the phone, and the computer; type on a computer keyboard; use hands to finger, handle or feel; talk or hear; reach with hands or arms; walk or stand; and perform some repetitive motion activities.
• Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, color vision, color differentiation, peripheral vision, depth perception, and the ability to adjust focus.
• This position requires working effectively as part of a team and concentrating on various details when faced with interruptions and changing work priorities.
• The mental demands are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions, as described above, including but not limited to: demonstrated ability to anticipate and solve practical problems or resolve issues; reason, calculate figures and amounts; collect, interpret, and understand complex data and information, and draw valid conclusions; analyze procedures and policies; and meet schedules in a dynamic and sometimes demanding work environment.
• The noise level in this work environment is usually moderate. The work environment characteristics represent those employees encounter while performing this job's essential functions in a typical office environment.
• An employee must meet the physical demands described here to perform the essential functions of this job successfully. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform essential functions.

Licenses/Certificates: Ability to be licensed as an Employee by various racing and gaming jurisdictions in which we operate, as required.

Supervisory Responsibilities: None

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