Platform Engineer/ DevOps

SSI People

Kansas City, MO, United States

6 days ago

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Role details

Contract type

Permanent contract

Employment type

Full-time (> 32 hours)

Experience level

Expert

Experience required

8 years minimum

Working hours

Regular working hours

Job source

www.dice.com

Tech stack

Amazon Web Services Microsoft Azure Bash Shell Cloud Computing Code Review DevOps Domain Name System (DNS) PC Tools Python (Programming Language) Network Security Microsoft Office Windows PowerShell

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Release Management Reliability Engineering Software Deployment Software Engineering Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) SSL Certificate Management Pulumi Scripting Google Cloud Mttr Git Build Management Terraform Golang

Job description

The Senior Platform Engineer leads the design and delivery of platforms and drives strategic improvements to developer experience across the organization. They own complex automation initiatives, architect self-service capabilities around infrastructure and application delivery, and serve as a primary escalation point and technical mentor for assistant and staff level engineers.
Leads and champions DevOps practices and culture across the organization, driving automation strategy for infrastructure provisioning and application delivery. Creates processes and conversations to drive improvements related to deployment frequency, failure change rate, mean time to recover (MTTR), and lead time, and sets measurable targets for improvement.
Independently scopes and leads complicated work streams, defining requirements and acceptance criteria in collaboration with stakeholders. Operates effectively in ambiguous environments and guides the team through uncertainty and change.
Evaluates, selects, and owns the toolchain for developer productivity particularly CI/CD pipelines ensuring the software development lifecycle is fast, safe, and reliable. Drives adoption of new tooling and practices across the organization.
Defines and owns SLO (service level objective) and SLI (service level indicator) frameworks for platform and application health. Leads incident response, conducts blameless post-mortems, and drives systemic improvements to observability and reliability.
Mentors and coaches engineers at all levels, conducts code and architecture reviews, and contributes to hiring and team development.

Requirements

Bachelor Degree in technology, business, or related field and 8 years of relevant experience Required or
Applicable years of experience may be substituted for the degree requirement Required
Minimum of 8 years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or a closely related technical discipline.
Deep expertise in building and operating cloud infrastructure in Google Cloud Platform, Azure, or AWS. Mastery of IaC (Infrastructure as Code) tools such as Terraform or Pulumi, including authoring reusable modules and enforcing organizational standards.
Strong software engineering skills with extensive experience scripting and building tooling in Bash, Python, PowerShell, Go, or similar languages.
Expert-level proficiency with Git, including branch strategies, code review workflows, and release management practices.
Strong understanding of TCP/IP networking, DNS, certificate management, and network security principles as applied to cloud and hybrid environments.
Extensive hands-on experience designing, building, and operating CI/CD pipelines and the tooling ecosystems around them. Able to evaluate tradeoffs and make architectural recommendations on build and deployment systems.
Advanced computer skills (e.g., Microsoft Office Suite).