Platform Engineer
Location: Oakland
Category: IT Infrastructure
Employment Type: Contract
Work Location: Hybrid
Job ID: 35748
Date Added: 07/02/2025
Mainz Brady Group is looking for a Platform Engineer for a 12 months contract with one of our clients in Phoenix, AZ. Please review and send your resume for consideration at resume@mbg.com.
Over 5 years of experience supporting and troubleshooting mission-critical, customer-facing applications across the full stack—applications, infrastructure, and data—in Linux-based environments. Skilled in managing complex systems in fast-paced, high-availability settings.
Key Experience:
- 5+ years platform/app-tier admin for critical applications (esp. financial services)
- Full-stack troubleshooting expertise: app to infrastructure
- 3+ years Linux admin experience
- Strong with Oracle SQL, MongoDB, Redis, Kafka, Flink, Postgres
- Load balancing support (F5, VMware AVI)
- SRE practices: fault tolerance, rapid recovery, scalability
- Monitoring tools: Dynatrace, AppDynamics, Splunk, BigPanda, etc.
- Automation/config tools: Puppet, Ansible, Terraform, Chef, Jenkins, GitLab
- Scripting: Python, PowerShell, Bash, SQL, JavaScript, etc.
- Cloud: GCP (ACE preferred), AWS, Azure
- Root cause analysis and continuous improvement leadership
- Strong communicator and team collaborator
- Quick learner and peer mentor
- Adaptable and calm in fast-changing environments
- Flexible to support 7×12 environment, including on-call rotation, weekends, holidays
- Primarily weekday hours with off-hours support if needed
Mainz Brady Group is a technology staffing firm with offices in California, Oregon and Washington. We specialize in Information Technology and Engineering placements on a Contract, Contract-to-hire and Direct Hire basis. Mainz Brady Group is the recipient of multiple annual Excellence Awards from the Techserve Alliance, the leading association for IT and engineering staffing firms in the U.S.
Mainz Brady Group is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to Diversity & Inclusion and incorporate non-discrimination best practices in all of our staffing processes. Mainz Brady Group does not discriminate on the basis of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, disability or any other protected class.
