Deployment and Platform Engineer

Job Title: Deployment and Platform Engineer

At Openforce, you will find a career experience that will challenge you, satisfy you, and make you proud to work for this SaaS (Software as a Service) and services company. Teamwork and transparent communication are the hallmark of this company. Openforce is experiencing unprecedented growth, accelerated by the new world of flexible work, as we empower independent contractors and gig workers to facilitate our client’s success in the gig and digital economy. It’s no secret the way people work and live has fundamentally shifted over the past few years. Openforce is well-positioned at the forefront of this change as we provide SaaS solutions and services for the gig economy. Our goal is to be all things independent contractor management.  

Job Purpose:  

As a Deployment and Platform Enginner you will be joining the Engineering team and responsibilities will include maintaining, automating, deploying, and monitoring of various systems across multiple environments. This role will help maintain and create various environments in AWS to support the overall SDLC of the various applications, with a heavy emphasis on moving completely towards Infrastructure as Code.  

Job Responsibilities: 

• Participate in all aspects of the software development life cycle, including planning, requirements, development, testing, automation, and quality assurance.
• With Engineering’s assistance merge cross-feature branches as part of the deployment process.
• Own Deployment process for multiple applications in multiple environments including several legacy applications. 
• Work with the infrastructure team to set up additional environments in AWS. 
• Ability to automate business tasks using any scripting language as a bridge towards the modernization of existing legacy applications. 
• Lead and schedule all deployments in the production environment and track ongoing platform updates and application-related maintenance tasks and issues, communicating changes effectively to end users.
• Maintain and own application CI/CD processes, including Git and current deployment processes. 
• Be the liaison with third-party infrastructure teams and the conduit for system-related escalations. 
• Assist the Engineering team in identifying System performance and areas of potential improvements. 
• Pager Duty for Emergency Support Issues.

Skills:

• Experience with Microsoft stack (C#)
• Strong experience scripting and automating back-end processes; Node or PowerShell
• Ability to write Structured Query Language (SQL) against various databases, to pull and/or modification of data
• Prior experience in monitoring applications like Data Dog, New Relic, and Grafana including setup of dashboards
• Experience in application performance monitoring, analysis, and tuning
• Automation experience using DevOps concepts

Education and Experience:

• Bachelor's degree in Information Science / Information Technology, Data Science, Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Physics, or a related field; or 5+ years of directly related experience
• 5+ years of application support experience
• Prior experience migrating solutions in AWS
• Experience with AWS Cloud Service and understanding of virtualization
• Experience with Kubernetes
• Prior experience using Git and GitHub Actions

The Perks

• Continued training and career development
• Full Benefits Package including medical, dental, vision, and 401
• Vacation and Holiday Pay
• Work remotely

Job Type:       Full-Time, Exempt

Salary:            DOE

Travel:            Up to 10% yearly or as needed

Passion, excellence, respect, accountability and having fun are just the beginning. Openforce believes that our culture is at the core part of what makes us successful.  We are looking for someone who understands good culture and will help shape it as it evolves.