Platform Engineer

Job Title: Platform EngineerLocation: Phoenix, AZHire Type: Contract Skills Set: Platform engineering, DevOps, KubernetesKey Responsibilities & RequirementsStrong hands-on experience in Kubernetes administration, upgrades, operations, and production troubleshooting.Experience with enterprise Kubernetes platforms, including Red Hat OpenShift and/or Rancher.Strong RHEL/Linux administration skills, including LVM, filesystems, RAID, server hardware, and performance troubleshooting.Strong networking knowledge, including TCP/IP, DNS, routing, load balancing, TLS/SSL, PKI, NIC bonding, and LACP.Hands-on experience with LLDP for network discovery and tcpdump for packet-level troubleshooting.Experience integrating Pure Storage with Kubernetes using CSI, Persistent Volumes, StorageClasses, and dynamic provisioning.Proficiency in Shell/Bash, Python, Ansible, and Terraform for automation and Infrastructure as Code (IaC).Experience with Helm, Argo CD, Git/GitHub, GitOps, and CI/CD pipelines.Strong knowledge of Docker/Podman, container images, registries, networking, storage, and runtime troubleshooting.Experience with Prometheus and Grafana for monitoring, alerting, and performance analysis.Ability to design and support highly available, scalable PaaS platforms for mission-critical applications and large-scale data ingestion, ETL, and distributed processing workloads.Strong end-to-end troubleshooting and root-cause analysis across hardware, networking, storage, Linux, containers, Kubernetes, and applications.Networking fundamentals equivalent to CompTIA Network+ or CCENT-level knowledge for enterprise server configuration and validation.