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# Sr. Platform Engineer

- **Company:** Talent & Acquisition LLC
- **Location:** Greenwood Village, CO, United States
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $166,400.0 - $187,200.0
- **Contract:** Contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Cloud Computing, Computer Programming, Continuous Integration, Python (Programming Language), Role-Based Access Control, Cloud Platform System, Delivery Pipeline, Performance Monitor, Terraform
- **Published:** October 16, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/a0fa6229-2507-4fcb-a269-d628290333b4

## About the Role

* Programming and automation: strong Python skills and a track record of building real automation and integrations at production scale
 * Cloud and containers: deep experience with a major cloud provider (AWS or Azure) and containerized infrastructure running in production
 * CI/CD and delivery practices: considerable experience owning pipelines end to end, including secure, modern deployment practices
 * Infrastructure as code at scale: experience running IaC practices, such as Terraform, across a real production environment
 * Security mindset: take security into everything you build and hold the rest of the team to the same standard
 * Cost awareness: experience applying FinOps or similar cost-management practices to cloud spend at scale
 * Reporting and transparency: track record of building metrics or reporting capability that gives leadership and other teams real visibility into platform performance
 * Working with developers: track record of treating the platform's users as customers and adjusting the platform based on their feedback

Preferred (Optional):

 * Experience informally mentoring or guiding other engineers
 * Experience with hybrid on-premises and cloud environments
 * Experience with observability or log management platforms
 * Exposure to cloud cost management or FinOps practices
 * Certifications are a plus but not required. Hands-on experience is weighted more heavily.

## Description

This contract-to-hire role reports to the Head of Platform Engineering & AI and provides senior-level ownership across the internal developer platform. The Senior Platform Engineer will lead infrastructure, CI/CD, observability, security, cost management, and performance reporting. This role requires strong independent judgment and may provide informal technical direction to other engineers without formal management responsibility., * Own the internal developer platform (IDP): drive the design and evolution of the self-service workflows, the Golden Paths, that the rest of engineering relies on

 * Lead infrastructure as code practice: set the standard for how the team provisions and manages infrastructure, and build the automation others follow
 * Own CI/CD architecture: design and evolve the build, test, and deployment pipelines the platform depends on, including how GitOps practices get applied
 * Drive observability strategy: make sure the platform is monitored, logged, and traced well enough that problems surface before anyone has to ask
 * Own performance reporting: build and maintain the metrics and reporting layer that shows leadership and the rest of the organization how the platform is performing month to month
 * Set the security and access standard: establish how secrets, access control, and role-based access control (RBAC) get handled across the platform
 * Own platform cost and efficiency: track spend and bring cost-efficiency recommendations forward
 * Guide other engineers: give informal technical direction and review to the rest of the team