Sr. Platform Engineer

U.S. Xpress Enterprises, Inc.•Chattanooga, TN

1d•Remote

About The Position

Relentlessly Delivering Big Ideas. U.S. Xpress is one of the nation’s largest asset-based trucking companies. But the most valuable asset we offer isn’t tractors, trailers, or even our exclusive, cutting-edge technology. It’s the collective brainpower of thousands of visionaries and problem-solvers. Together, we are revolutionizing the transportation industry by providing innovative, custom solutions. And, here, we believe in the sanctity of a promise—both to our customers, and our people. When we focus our varied talents on reshaping the future of transportation, that’s what we call the POWER OF U.S. Right Role. Right Tools. Right People. We invest in our talent starting on day one. You will be provided with personal and professional development opportunities that complement your interests and encourage you to build a career you’re passionate about. Whether it is employee stock options, profit-sharing, 401K, professional development, or our competitive pay, we help prepare you for the future. Be part of an organization that values out-of-the-box thinking and rewards employees for going above and beyond. Curious about the other benefits of working with us? Check out other perks below! 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.

Requirements

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field or equivalent experience required. Equivalent years of experience are defined as one year of professional experience for each year of college requested.
Excellent programming knowledge in any one of Golang or Python
Excellent Knowledge of container platform like docker and Kubernetes
Experience using AWS console and creating resources in AWS
Experience in terminal-based languages like bash and PowerShell
Experience in debugging issues in Linux systems
Ability to write Helm Charts for deploying any type of resource
In depth knowledge and experience working in Kubernetes resources especially RBAC, Namespaces, HPA and PDBs
Have coded IAAC using an infrastructure creation tool such as terraform or pulumi
Experience troubleshooting Linux systems be it in server or docker

Responsibilities

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