Sr. Platform Engineer

What You’ll Do: We are looking for Sr Platform Engineer with 5+ years’ experience to manage our growing infrastructure and build tools to increase the productivity of the engineering team. Platform Engineers at U.S. Xpress are part of the CloudOps and Infrastructure team. They are extremely code savvy via cloud- native approach, function using software engineering paradigms, extensively use infrastructure as code, deploy applications at scale on Kubernetes and work with several AWS core services. They also work closely with backend, frontend, mobile and data engineering teams. · Develop web APIs for automating resources creations · Creating custom GitHub Actions for building applications · Developing script modules to deploy applications to end platform · Developing a framework to backup/restore from an AWS account containing EKS, EC2, RDS, etc. · Gain knowledge about Kubernetes and develop controllers to auto remediate issues inside EKS cluster · Work on IAAC using terraform to create resources using the best practices that enables reporting and monitoring · Engage in idea/knowledge transfer within team and with the development teams · Mentoring junior developers in all technical aspects such as design and implementation · Harden the security of the accounts but at the same time allow the ease of deployment