Platform Engineer
Recru, LLC
Houston, TX, United States
28 days ago
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Role details
Contract type
Temporary contract
Employment type
Full-time (> 32 hours)
Experience level
Expert
Experience required
5 years minimum
Working hours
Regular working hours
Job source
Tech stack
Application Programming Interfaces (APIs)
Amazon Web Services
Computing Platforms
JIRA
Build Automation
Microsoft Azure
Cloud Computing
Configuration Management
Continuous Integration
DevOps
Disaster Recovery
Github
+22 more
Monitoring of Systems
Performance Tuning
Software Architecture
Release Management
Reliability Engineering
Software Engineering
SonarQube
Software Troubleshooting
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
Gitlab
Cloudformation
Kubernetes
Infrastructure Automation Frameworks
Deployment Automation
Performance Monitor
Bicep
Terraform
Devsecops
Api Management
Docker
Security Orchestration, Automation & Response
Artifactory
Job description
The ideal candidate has experience building and owning CI/CD platforms, implementing infrastructure automation, supporting cloud-native environments, and partnering closely with software engineering teams to improve the developer experience., Platform Engineering & CI/CD
- Design, build, and support enterprise CI/CD platforms using GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab, or similar technologies.
- Develop and maintain deployment automation, release workflows, and platform tooling that enable consistent software delivery.
- Establish and improve platform standards, governance, change management processes, and operational controls.
- Partner with engineering teams to drive DevOps adoption and platform engineering best practices.
Infrastructure & Automation
- Develop Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, Bicep, or similar tools.
- Build automation for provisioning, configuration management, security controls, compliance reporting, and operational workflows.
- Integrate platform tooling through APIs and automated workflows.
Reliability & Operations
- Improve platform reliability, observability, resiliency, rollback capabilities, and disaster recovery processes.
- Support incident response, troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and performance optimization activities.
- Develop operational dashboards, DORA metrics, and engineering performance reporting.
Security & DevSecOps
- Integrate and support security tooling including GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS), SonarQube, JFrog, and related DevSecOps tooling.
- Partner with security and engineering teams to automate security controls and compliance requirements throughout the software development lifecycle.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps Engineering, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), or Software Engineering.
- Proven experience designing, building, and supporting enterprise CI/CD platforms.
- Hands-on experience with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, GitLab, or comparable CI/CD solutions.
- Strong understanding of software delivery, release management, and deployment automation.
- Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, or similar).
- Experience supporting cloud-based environments in Azure, AWS, or other public cloud platforms.
- Strong troubleshooting, problem-solving, and collaboration skills.
- Ability to articulate architectural decisions, platform ownership responsibilities, and operational support experience.
Preferred Qualifications
- GitHub Advanced Security (GHAS)
- SonarQube
- JFrog Artifactory/Xray
- Azure Cloud Services
- Docker
- Kubernetes
- Jira
- API Integrations
- DevSecOps & Security Automation
- Monitoring and observability tooling
Nice-to-Have Platform Expertise
- Experience administering and supporting Kubernetes platforms (AKS, EKS, or GKE).
- Experience with cluster operations, upgrades, security, monitoring, and disaster recovery.
- Experience building self-service developer platforms and internal engineering tooling.
- Knowledge of DORA metrics, engineering productivity, and platform performance measurement.
What Success Looks Like
- Reliable and scalable CI/CD capabilities that support engineering teams across the organization.
- Automated governance, security, and compliance processes.
- Improved deployment velocity, quality, and operational stability.
- Strong partnership with development teams and a focus on continuous platform improvement.
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