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Agent guide: [/agents.md](https://www.wearedevelopers.com/agents.md). --- # Platform Engineer - **Company:** World Wide Technology - **Location:** St. Louis, MO, United States (Remote available) - **Experience:** Experienced - **Salary:** $112,500.0 - **Contract:** Permanent contract - **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Backup Devices, Data as a Services, Data Infrastructure, Data Stores, DevOps, PostgreSQL, OpenShift, Performance Tuning, Prometheus, Software Engineering, Datadog, Application Enhancement Tool, Grafana, IT Architecture, Kubernetes, Infrastructure Automation Frameworks, Virtual Agents - **Published:** July 1, 2026 - **Apply:** https://www.jobmonkeyjobs.com/career/27811477/Platform-Engineer-Missouri-St-Louis-7449 ## About the Role * 4-6 years of professional infrastructure, platform, DevOps, or SRE experience * Hands-on Kubernetes experience; experience with OpenShift a plus * Working competency in Go, with the ability to make changes to an existing service * Experience with Helm for packaging and deployment * Experience working with PostgreSQL (queries, migrations, basic operations) * Experience with Grafana or comparable monitoring/observability tooling (e.g., Prometheus) * Solid software development experience-comfortable writing and maintaining automation, tooling, and service code * Exposure to infrastructure-as-code practices * Applicants must be authorized to work in the United States. We are unable to provide sponsorship for this position., * Familiarity with the Kubernetes operator/controller pattern (CRDs, reconciliation) * Production PostgreSQL operations experience (backups, tuning, scaling) * Experience supporting product launches or scaling for external customers * Strong instincts for making complex or automated system behavior observable and trustworthy in production ## Description We are seeking a Platform Engineer to help build and operate the infrastructure, reliability, and operability of our product platform. This role balances infrastructure engineering with hands-on development-you will help run containerized services on Kubernetes, contribute to an in-house Go control-plane service, work with data infrastructure, support observability, and write automation and tooling that keeps the platform healthy. You will work across the platform-from container build and deployment through data services, monitoring, and incident response-contributing to a system maintained by the wider team and partnering with application developers to ship and run workloads reliably in production. Key Responsibilities Platform & Deployment Engineering * Help deploy and operate containerized services on Kubernetes / OpenShift, packaged and released via Helm * Contribute to an in-house Go control-plane service that reconciles Kubernetes resources to provision and manage isolated per-user * environments - make changes to reconcile logic and add features within established patterns * Manage multi-environment configuration and promote changes safely across environments * Apply security and least-privilege practices to deployments Data Infrastructure * Work with PostgreSQL as a primary data store-queries, migrations, and routine operations * Help manage deployment-time secrets across environments Observability & Reliability * Build and maintain monitoring, dashboards, and alerting with Grafana and related tooling * Instrument services for health, performance, and usage insight * Participate in incident response and on-call; investigate issues and drive fixes Development & Developer Enablement * Write and maintain automation, tooling, and service code that supports the platform * Provide reliable local and staging environments for application developers * Improve deployment safety, rollback, and release confidence ahead of launches * Partner with application teams to ship features into production AI-Assisted & Agentic Engineering * This role requires comfort working alongside AI-powered tools while maintaining strong engineering judgment, validation, and accountability for outcomes. * Engineers will contribute to the adoption and continuous improvement of AI-enabled workflows by providing feedback, identifying opportunities for automation, and safely incorporating AI assistance into repeatable operational patterns. * This includes leveraging approved AI tools and agents to assist with platform operations, troubleshooting, automation, documentation, and workflow efficiency under established governance and best practices. * Engineers on the INFOPS IT Architecture team are expected to actively use and support AI-assisted and agentic engineering workflows as part of their day-to-day work., We strive to create an environment where all employees are empowered to succeed based on their skills, performance, and dedication. 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