Sr. Software Platform Engineer

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We are seeking for a Sr. Software Platform Engineer with 5+ years of professional experience in an exciting fast-paced production environment to support AWS Cloud infrastructure for our customer facing e-commerce sites and internal sales agent application.

Responsibilities:

• Deploy and automate infrastructure & platform services in Public Clouds preferably in AWS Cloud using Infrastructure as Code, ie Cloudformation, Terraform, CDK, etc.
• Research and implement new technological subsystems to modernize our infrastructure and work with various groups to maintain our high uptimes and deliverables to various business partners.
• Implement automation and industry best practices to run our large-scale, rapidly growing infrastructure to reduce manual effort and increase team efficiency.
• Prioritize and address production and non-production issues in a timely manner and provide future avoidance solution.
• Implement observability best practices, ie monitoring, alerting, logging, etc to understand the health and availability of infrastructure and applications across Engineering organization.
• Configure and maintain software components, i.e., operating systems, web servers, application environments through Python and Bash in a highly customized environment.
• Participate in team follow the sun (24x7x365) on-call rotation and improve on-call practices and procedures.
• Adopt and implement processes improvement and engineering best practices across organization.
• Support innovation in designs of major components, systems and features.
• Collaborate with Platform team members to complete engineering initiatives.
• Participate in weekly releases and OS patching of infrastructure on regular basis to keep it secure.

Requirements:

• Bachelor's or Master’s Degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related fields.
• Must have 5+ years of hands-on public cloud AWS experience, ie EBS, EC2, RDS, Lambda, S3, CloudFront etc.
• Must have 5+ years of hands-on experience with Infrastructure as code, ie Ansible, Terraform, CloudFormation, CDK.
• Must have 5+ years of hands-on experience with Platform Engineering building an IDP in the area but not limited to DevOps, GitOps, Observability, Security, Network, etc. 
• 5+ year’s professional hands-on strong experience administering Linux operating system environment, preferably in CentOS or RedHat
• 5+ years of professional experience in managing highly available SaaS environment as a DevOps Engineer/ Systems Engineer.
• Proficiency in scripting in Bash and Python automation must be part of your DNA.
• Good working knowledge of enterprise Storage and Backup environments.
• Application experience with web technologies such as Apache, Tomcat etc.
• Solid understanding of technology stack fundamentals such as TCP/IP, HTTP, NFS, SMTP , SFTP, LDAP ,TLS etc.

PLEASE NO AGENCIES. We are NOT able to hire contractors through a 3rd party. We are ONLY considering direct, full-time employment with eHealth in the US. 

• Please include a link to your LinkedIn profile, Github, and/or portfolio of your work that you’d like to share with the hiring team. Profiles with these will be prioritized

We welcome H1B transfers.

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The base pay range reflects the anticipated pay range for this position. The actual base pay offered will depend on various factors including individual skills, experience, performance, qualifications, the department budget, and the location where work is performed. Base pay is one component of eHealth’s total rewards package, which also includes an annual performance bonus, plus an array of benefits designed to support employees’ personal and professional wellness. For more information on our total rewards offerings, please visit our career site.

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Base Pay Range -$113,500 - $141,900

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eHealth is an Equal Employment Opportunity employer. It is our policy to provide equal opportunity to all employees and applicants and to prohibit any discrimination because of race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, marital status, sexual orientation, genetic information, disability, protected veteran status, or any other consideration made unlawful by applicable federal, state or local laws. The foundation of these policies is our commitment to treat everyone fairly and equally and to have a bias-free work environment.