Platform Engineer

The Senior Platform Engineer role is responsible for designing, building, problem-solving, troubleshooting, and maintaining platforms within the current technology environment. The role involves analyzing complex technical problems, developing appropriate solutions to maintain the overall integrity of the platform, including operating systems, hardware and software infrastructure that are critical to the company's user populace and application environments. They collaborate with other IT professionals such as Application, Architect, and Database Engineers to ensure that all components of the platform are working efficiently, securely, and resiliently. The Senior Platform Engineer uses their extensive knowledge of both traditional and modern platforms to ensure high performance and reliability of the company's infrastructure, including both cloud and on-premises systems, in support of DevOps efforts and general business and IT objectives.

WHAT THE ROLE WILL DO:

• Maintain the platform hardware, software, and network requirements in alignment with business needs and organizational standards defined
• Monitor system performance and troubleshoot issues as they arise to continuously improve platforms in alignment with application goals
• Manage and configure DevOps tools (such as API Gateway, Teraform) to support processes as per organizational needs
• Collaborate with DevOps engineering and production team to update, troubleshoot and maintain platforms and environments to bring new features and services into production
• Identify, prioritize, implement and maintain automated and orchestrated fulfillment mechanisms to optimize delivery of key platform services
• Coordinate the tasks of other teams that work within the target platform to ensure smooth operations
• Identify and mitigate security threats to comply with a strict security compliance
• Develop and implement security and resiliency policies, standards, and procedures to protect the infrastructure and ensure compliance with regulations
• Produce high-level design documentation where required
• Conduct technical research regarding user requests for new/modified systems or problem resolution
• Manage vendor relationships and discussions related to design docs, platform changes, and other modifications, as needed

WHAT THE INCUMBENT WILL NEED

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field. In lieu of a degree, at least 7 years of experience in the role of Platform Engineer or related position, * Azure Solutions Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer preferred, experience in platform engineering and infrastructure components

Experience in automated interaction with physical infrastructure

Experience in managing and maintaining cloud-based environments such as AWS, Google Cloud Platform, or Azure

Experience with monitoring and log management tools such as Nagios, Splunk, and ELK

Experience in developing and implementing backup and disaster recovery strategies

Excellent scripting experience in languages such as Python, PowerShell, and Bash

Experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, and Terraform

Technical Skills

Programming Languages

Cloud Technologies & Platforms

Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)

DevOps Methodology

Software Packaging and Deployment Procedures

Operating Systems

Network Operations, Configuration, & Services

Containerization

Monitoring and Logging

Integration Technology

3+ years of hands-on experience with containerization technologies, including Docker, and Kubernetes and Rancher for orchestration and cluster management

Proven expertise in maintaining platform-level runtimes, including ingress controllers (e.g., NGINX), TLS certificate lifecycle management (e.g., cert-manager), and secrets management integrations (e.g., HashiCorp Vault)

Experience deploying and managing observability tools, such as Sysdig for monitoring and CVE scanning, Fluentd for log forwarding, and Elasticsearch for log analysis

Familiarity with GitOps practices and tools, particularly ArgoCD, to support continuous deployment workflows

Strong communication skills with the ability to convey complex information to non-technical stakeholders and vice versa