Platform Engineer

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Best Buy

Best Buy is transforming its cloud and infrastructure platforms to deliver a customer-focused, product-based, self-service experience. As a Platform Engineer

, you’ll join a team building, maintaining, and automating critical systems while working in a fast-paced environment.

We are looking for an engineer with experience building and managing complex infrastructure leveraging automation tools to ensure consistency across the environment. With an “automate everything” mindset, the ideal candidate will have a mix of engineering and operations skills and is just as comfortable managing a Linux server as they are troubleshooting an application. They will work closely with Best Buy application teams while being part of a broader team of technology professionals creating robust technology solutions that deliver real business value to Best Buy.

Key position responsibilities include:

Engineering & Operations

Provides level 3 support for business-critical systems. Performs complex incident and change management activities.

Leverage automation for the delivery of on-premises infrastructure in a traditional VMware, Linux, and SAN/NAS environment

Perform installation, monitoring, testing, configuration, migration, maintenance, and troubleshooting of assigned technologies.

Ensure that systems are up-to-date, stable, and compliant, meeting established technology and security standards.

Proactively monitor and report performance and utilization of assigned technologies.

Troubleshoot software and/or hardware issues & failures.

Collaborate, communicate and work across various geographies and time zones

Participate in a rotating on-call schedule

Automation

Automate the installation, configuration, operation, and monitoring of systems using a variety of open-source tools

Develop scripts leveraging technologies such as Chef, Ansible, and custom-built management tools

Perform zero-downtime deployments, upgrades, and configuration changes across multiple globally distributed locations

Minimum Qualifications:

2 years of relevant experience with a Bachelor's degree OR equivalent relevant professional experience

2 or more years of experience managing Linux and Windows servers

1 or more years of experience working with virtualization platforms such as VMWare

1 or more years of experience using automation and configuration management tools such as Chef, Ansible, and Puppet

Preferred Qualifications:

Solid Git and scripting skills (e.g. shell scripts, Python, Perl, Ruby, Powershell)

Experience configuring and managing applications including Tomcat, Apache web server, Kafka, MQ

Experience with networking including load balancers (F5) and firewalls

Experience leveraging development pipelines, DevOps philosophies and working with infrastructure-as-code

Experience with Elasticsearch, Logstash, Filebeat, Metricbeat, and monitoring tools like Kibana, Grafana, and Splunk

A clear understanding of cloud services provided by major vendors and experience integrating private and public clouds

Company info

Best Buy
Website : http://www.bestbuy.com