Senior Platform Engineer

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The Sr Platform Engineer is essential for developing and optimizing platform services that support core data workloads and infrastructure performance. It involves designing, deploying, and enhancing platform architecture with a focus on security, cost‑efficiency, and operational excellence. The position requires collaboration with engineering, data, and product teams within an Agile environment to improve platform capabilities. Success is measured by the robustness, efficiency, and automation of platform services that enhance developer experience.

The work directly impacts the technological framework that supports organizational objectives and customer solutions.

We are a team that encourages innovation and advocates an agile and open approach, truly working and playing in the Un‑carrier way!

• Designs, Develops and deploys platform services to enhance infrastructure performance, security, and cost‑efficiency
  • Design, deploy, and maintain platform infrastructure across hybrid environments (on‑prem, AWS, and Azure)
  • Architect and manage compute, storage, and networking resources across hybrid and multi‑cloud environments
  • Support containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes, to standardize deployment practices
• Optimizes existing platform services to handle core data workloads efficiently
  • Ensure system reliability, performance, and security through proactive monitoring, automation, and performance tuning
  • Troubleshoot complex platform and application integration issues impacting performance or availability
  • Develop, execute, and tune DML logic — queries, data migrations, transformations, and batch operations — for performance and reliability
  • Drive incident analysis and reliability reviews to improve operational posture and system resilience
• Collaborates with engineering, data, and product teams to advance platform capabilities
  • Participate in on‑call rotations and lead incident resolution and root cause analysis
  • Own DML operations for platform‑managed databases (Postgres, Oracle, Cassandra) while collaborating with the Enterprise team responsible for DDL and schema governance
  • Design and maintain Kafka‑based data streaming and message‑driven workflows to enable asynchronous and event‑based platform operations
  • Partner across engineering, Dev Ops, and data teams to design scalable solutions and resolve complex issues
• Focuses on automation and operational excellence to improve developer experience
  • Build, enhance, and maintain Infrastructure‑as‑Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, Ansible, or Cloud Formation
  • Develop automation pipelines and scripts (Python, Bash, Power Shell) to eliminate manual processes and improve consistency
  • Lead CI/CD improvements for infrastructure deployments using Git Lab CI/CD, Jenkins, or similar tools
  • Create reusable automation patterns and documentation for team‑wide adoption
  • Lead initiatives to enhance monitoring, alerting, and observability using Prometheus, Grafana, ELK, Cloud Watch, or Azure Monitor
  • Design and implement self‑healing automation and proactive reliability improvements
• Ensures robust platform architecture and practical engineering solutions
  • Engineer hybrid connectivity solutions and optimize network paths between datacenters and cloud services
  • Define and implement caching strategies (Redis, Memcached, or similar) to improve performance and reduce database load
  • Champion automation‑first, data‑informed, and Dev Ops practices across platform teams
• Works within an Agile environment to streamline processes and enhance productivity
  • Contribute to Agile ceremonies, driving infrastructure readiness and delivery excellence

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