[Remote] Platform Engineer III
Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Aflac is a Fortune 500 insurance company and an industry leader in voluntary insurance products. The Platform Engineer III supports the architecture, maintenance, configuration, security, integration, and performance of distributed COTS, SaaS, and ERP platform environments. The role also leads medium-sized projects, troubleshoots platform components, and mentors junior team members.
Responsibilities
- Provides support on architectural design and maintenance of the platform’s (COTS, SaaS, ERP) environment with distributed components
- Ensures compliance with the organization's requirements through the implementation of, auditing of, and adherence to policies, procedures, and security standards
- Plans software upgrades, patching, & plugin installations in accordance with established policies and procedures
- Monitors performance, resolves problems, & manages component capacity issues
- Design, test, develop, configure, & maintain integrations to platform’s applications
- Adhere to the platform’s security and coding standards for resilience, data, and security
- Review business requirements to deploy the best solution, including configuring, coding, & debugging
- Work closely with cross-functional departments to communicate statuses & technical proposals
- Deploy and configure platform applications tailored to company needs
- Design technical solutions, configure/customize, test, maintain the platform applications to meet company requirements
- Performs other duties as required
Skills
- Advanced experience with software configuration and modern programming languages
- Ability to troubleshoot challenging problems across the platform & its HW/SW components
- Proven experience in Scrum and DevOps methodologies
- Ability to guide and mentor junior team members
- Lead medium projects
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Information Systems or other related experience
- 4+ years of experience in release practices and environments or other related experience
- Or an equivalent combination of education and experience
- Any Certification that relates to the platforms supported
Benefits
- Hybrid or remote work arrangements depending on location within the continental US
- Medical, dental, and vision coverage
- Prescription drug coverage
- Health care flexible spending
- Dependent care flexible spending
- Aflac supplemental Accident, Cancer, Critical Illness, and Hospital Indemnity policies offered at no cost to employees
- 401(k) plans
- Annual bonuses
- Opportunity to purchase company stock
- 11 paid holidays annually
- Up to 20 days of PTO to be used for any reason
- If eligible, state-mandated sick leave, including Washington employees accruing 1 hour of sick leave for every 40 hours worked
- Other leaves of absence, if eligible, to support physical, financial, and emotional well-being
- Sick and safe leave, and adoption and parental leave, in all states and localities where applicable
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