platform engineer Charlotte, NC
Job description
At Brightspeed, we are reimagining how people live, work, play and connect by providing fast, reliable internet connections and an awesome customer experience in twenty states throughout the Midwest and South.
Backed by funds managed by Apollo Global Management, our vision is to accelerate the upgrade of copper to fiber optic technologies, bringing faster and more reliable internet service to many rural markets traditionally underserved by broadband providers, while delivering best-in-class customer experience.
Be a part of the team that will make this vision a reality….designing and building a world class fiber network and creating a customer experience second to none.
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We are currently looking for an IT Platform Engineer to join our growing team! As an IT Platform Engineer, you will be responsible for building and maintaining the business intelligence and analytics platform in Google cloud. This will require development of various services but not limited to: virtual private clouds, compute and storage services to host various applications, and development of this platform to ensure it meets the requirements of the business. This platform will need to be secure, scalable, performant, and robust.
As an IT Platform Engineer, your duties and responsibilities will include:
- Familiar with infrastructure as code automation technologies to build and deploy both infrastructure and applications (i.e., Terraform, Ansible)
- Troubleshooting across storage and compute areas to determine optimal performance
- Proficient in handling CI/CD integrations with GitHub, GitHub Actions, Jenkins and deploying infrastructure and applications on GCP
- Create and maintain documents for procedures/processes and infrastructure architecture/topology diagrams
- Stay current with advances in technologies; recommend change and updates accordingly
- Identify areas of improvement and proactively develops plans to improve infrastructure architecture
- Work with streaming data applications
- Knowledge of containers and their orchestration
- Build re-usable code, components and services that incorporate versioning, reconciliation, and exception handling
- communicate effectively with technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Analytical and problem-solving skills
- Self-starter and capable individual contributor with little supervision needed
WHAT IT TAKES TO CATCH OUR EYE:
- Bachelor’s or equivalent degree in Computer Science followed by 8+ years of experience designing, building, and supporting real-time and batch data pipeline and analytical solutions with Hadoop (Hive, Kafka, Spark, Spark Streaming, Hbase, ), Teradata, ETL tools like Informatica, Talend, Python/shell scripting/Java, Oracle/Exadata
- 3+ years of Hands-on experience in experience in GCP services such as Data Fusion, Cloud Composer, BigQuery, Cloud Functions, Dataproc, GKE, Data Fusion, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, CloudSQL, Firestore, GCS, IAM and Compute Engine
- Experience Hadoop cluster creation and management
- Experience with IaC such as Terraform
- Comfortable working in a dynamic, start-up culture
- Telecom experience desired
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Additional Information
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
WHY JOIN US?
We aspire to contemporary ways of working.
We are committed to being a leader in defining a new way to work because we recognize the changing mindset of today's workforce. We have a brand new, state-of-the-art corporate HQ in Charlotte, NC and our current priority is to make it a truly vibrant destination by hiring talent in the greater Charlotte area. Why? Because our purpose is to reimagine how people work, learn, play and connect!
We offer competitive compensation and comprehensive benefits.
Our benefits and paid time off programs reflect our underlying belief in promoting overall wellness through physical, emotional and financial health. We are committed to building a team as diverse as the customers we serve.
Diversity, equity and inclusion are at the center of our grounding belief in Being Real.
When we bring our authentic selves to work, everyone is better as a result. A diverse team helps us be fierce advocates for more accessible, inclusive and high-quality internet, because we believe doing so promotes equity in the communities we serve.
Brightspeed is an Equal Opportunity Employer
For all applicants, please take a moment to review our Privacy Notices:
- Brightspeed’s Privacy Notice for California Residents
- Brightspeed’s Privacy Notice
