job summary: Our client is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer / Software Engineer to join their engineering team. Perfect for a skilled software engineer who also has cloud and infrastructure experiences and looking to grow! Great opportunity for software tooling! location: Seattle, Washington job type: Contract salary: $78 - 88 per hour work hours: 8am to 5pm education: Bachelors responsibilities: - Platform Engineering: highly proficient with tools like Ansible, Docker, Kubernetes, and Terraform; deep experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, automating deployments, and managing infrastructure as code - Strong scripting abilities, particularly in Python and shell scripting, for automation, data manipulation, and system administration tasks - Architecting and building internal software tools. Must have a software engineering/problem solving background. - Experience with Distributed Systems and Microservices: The roles and responsibilities involve working with complex, distributed systems and microservices architectures - Strong understanding of CI/CD including deployment automation, configuration management, test, and source code/git repositories - Experience with containers and orchestration - Experience with NoSQL and SQL databases, including at an administration and architecture level - Experience and preference for working within an Agile/Scrum environment - Experience with monitoring tools (Prometheus, Grafana for example) and the ability to diagnose and resolve performance and availability issues in distributed systems - A strong history of diving in and solving complex problems qualifications: - 8 years software engineering - 4+ years of software engineering in App Dev capacity - 4+ years of automation and scripting using Python - 8+ years of experience building automation/configuration management infrastructure such as Ansible, Terraform, Chef, and/or Puppet - 8+ years of experience of building CI/CD pipelines - 6+ years of experience with deployment of production code leveraging Docker containers - Experience using cloud services (AWS and Azure preferred); public cloud IaaS and PaaS services - Experience with large-scale distributed systems architectures. Examples include Java/Spring Boot, CQRS, event streaming, Kafka, Spark Knowledge in databases skills: Required Skills - Python, Platform engineering, Infrastructure As Code, Automation Desired Skills & Experience - - Streaming platforms such as Kafka/NATS/Kinesis/Event Hub - Databricks/Apache Spark - Elastic Search - Apigee - Datadog/New Relic Equal Opportunity Employer: Race, Color, Religion, Sex, Sexual Orientation, Gender Identity, National Origin, Age, Genetic Information, Disability, Protected Veteran Status, or any other legally protected group status.At Randstad Digital, we welcome people of all abilities and want to ensure that our hiring and interview process meets the needs of all applicants. If you require a reasonable accommodation to make your application or interview experience a great one, please contact HRsupport@randstadusa.com. Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Randstad Digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including: medical, prescription, dental, vision, AD&D, and life insurance offerings, short-term disability, and a 401K plan (all benefits are based on eligibility). This posting is open for thirty (30) days.