FORTNA partners with the world’s leading brands to transform omnichannel and parcel distribution operations. Known world-wide for enabling companies to keep pace with digital disruption and growth objectives, we design and deliver solutions, powered by intelligent software, to optimize fast, accurate and cost-effective order fulfillment and last mile delivery. Our people, innovative approach and proprietary algorithms and tools ensure optimal operations design and material and information flow. We deliver exceptional value every day to our customers with comprehensive services and products including network strategy, distribution center operational design and implementation, material handling automated equipment, robotics and a comprehensive suite of lifecycle services.

At FORTNA, we believe in fostering a workplace that isn't just a job but a movement – a collective effort to redefine success and transform challenges into opportunities. "Join the Movement" encapsulates our commitment to a workplace culture that thrives on collaboration, celebrates diversity, and empowers every individual to contribute to something greater than themselves. Our Team. Our Passion. Our Approach. 

Job Description

As a platform engineer, you will be responsible for improving software product delivery in the areas of provisioning, monitoring, securing, deploying, scaling, maintaining, and system hardening.  A typical day in this role involves supporting the project and product teams, and collaborating with the software development, architecture, and infrastructure teams to derive best practices for continuous improvement in the areas of CI/CD/IaC. This role involves an individual to be hands-on to build, set up, monitor and maintain running systems remotely and at client sites.

Establish idempotent CI/CD pipelines to automate configuring, provisioning, packaging, testing, and deployment of FORTNA software.Configure and deploy visualizations of builds, deployments, tests, telemetry, alerting, errors/logs, and health status.Draft and maintain detailed, up-to-date technical documentation and user guides for SDLC tool chain.Participate in the troubleshooting of performance and stability issues and recommend solutions to prevent recurrence.Apply proper architecture and best-practice guidelines to achieve “as a service” capabilities for the multi-cloud platforms.

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Software Engineering, Electrical Engineering, or equivalent.Strong experience in Linux/UNIX administration, configuration, networking, infrastructure, and security.General understanding of automated provisioning and configuration management using Ansible / Terraform.Prior experience establishing observability platforms including Prometheus, Istio, Grafana, et al is required.Strong experience with at least one major scripting language (Bash, Groovy, Python).Proficient with troubleshooting system issues related to hardware, custom software, and packaged middleware.Experience creating and maintaining detailed, up-to-date technical documentation.Strong communication in both verbal and written forms.2+ year experience with Kubernetes (K8s, K3s) and Rancher toolset (Helm chart, Fleet), and/or docker swarm.2+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps/SRE with elastic infrastructure or cloud environment.3+ years of experience with CI/CD tools like GitOps, Ansible, Jenkins, Github, Gitlab etc.

This job description describes the general nature and level of work expected of a person assigned to this position. All job requirements listed indicate the minimum level of knowledge, skills and/or ability deemed necessary to perform the job proficiently. Employees may be required to perform any other job-related duties as requested by their supervisor.

It is the policy of FORTNA and its affiliated companies to provide equal employment opportunity (EEO) to all persons regardless of age, color, national origin, physical or mental disability, race, religion, creed, gender, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity and/or expression, genetic information, marital status, pregnancy or pregnancy-related condition, status with regard to public assistance, veteran status, citizenship status (if authorized to work in the U.S.), or any other characteristic protected by federal, state or local law. In addition, FORTNA will provide reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities.