Platform Engineer

The Senior Platform Engineer leads the design and delivery of platform engineering solutions while driving strategic improvements to developer experience across the organization. This role serves as a technical leader, architect, mentor, and escalation point for platform engineering initiatives. The engineer will lead complex automation efforts, architect self-service infrastructure and application delivery capabilities, establish engineering standards, and drive adoption of modern DevOps, SRE, and platform engineering practices.

Responsibilities

• Lead and champion DevOps practices, automation strategy, and platform engineering initiatives across the organization.

• Drive improvements related to:

• Deployment Frequency
• Change Failure Rate
• Mean Time to Recovery (MTTR)
• Lead Time for Changes

• Partner with architects and engineering teams to provision infrastructure and deploy applications at scale.

• Establish reusable patterns, standards, frameworks, and platform components that can be leveraged by engineering teams.

• Document architectural decisions, trade-offs, and best practices.

• Improve developer experience by identifying pain points, removing bottlenecks, and increasing engineering productivity.

• Lead complex workstreams, define requirements, establish acceptance criteria, and drive execution.

• Operate effectively in ambiguous environments and help teams navigate change.

• Own and evaluate the developer productivity toolchain, including CI/CD platforms and deployment automation.

• Drive adoption of modern engineering practices and tooling across the organization.

• Define and maintain Service Level Objectives (SLOs) and Service Level Indicators (SLIs).

• Lead incident response activities, facilitate blameless postmortems, and drive platform reliability improvements.

• Improve observability, monitoring, and operational excellence.

• Mentor engineers at all levels through technical leadership, design reviews, architecture reviews, and coaching.

• Participate in hiring, onboarding, and team development initiatives.

• Maintain a strong commitment to continuous learning and improvement.

• Perform other duties as assigned.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree in Technology, Business, or a related field and 8+ years of relevant experience

OR

Equivalent applicable experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.

Required Experience

• 8+ years of experience in:

• Platform Engineering
• Infrastructure Engineering
• DevOps Engineering
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• Related technical disciplines

Technical Requirements

Cloud Platforms

Deep expertise building and operating cloud infrastructure in one or more of:

• Google Cloud Platform (GCP) • Microsoft Azure • Amazon Web Services (AWS) Infrastructure as Code (IaC)

• Terraform • Pulumi