Sr Platform Engineer; GCP

Senior Platform Engineer

This role creates and redesigns broad technical infrastructure and information systems that define how servers, networks, and storage systems work together to support the needs of the organization. The position is on‑site in Springfield, MO; remote work is not an option.

Design and select business‑critical storage, data center, and client/server environments, focusing on GCP services to deliver solutions that follow industry best practice and provide a third‑line point of escalation for global infrastructure solutions.

Drive advances in technologies and architectures, particularly cloud‑native services, to increase the value delivered by technology and digital capabilities; recommend and participate in activities related to the design, development, and maintenance of IT capabilities within the enterprise architecture.

Partner with Enterprise Architecture to develop and maintain enterprise architecture artifacts and ensure seamless integration between legacy systems and GCP cloud environments.

Collect business requirements through interviews, document analysis, workshops, and workflow analysis, expressing them in terms of target user roles and goals.

Document "as is" and "to be" processes and describe the changes required to migrate to the "to be" capability (e.g., on‑prem to GCP migrations).

Explore and develop a detailed understanding of external developments or emerging issues, such as new GCP features or cloud security trends, and contribute to the evaluation of their potential impact on the organization.

Conduct feasibility studies from a technological and organizational perspective and document findings to complete cost‑benefit analysis on implementing changes to business processes, products, or business unit structure.

Implement required security measures, such as GCP Cloud Armor, IAM policies, firewalls, message encryption, system hardening, or vulnerability remediation, monitoring performance to notify security experts of any problems.

Maintain and renew a deep knowledge and understanding of the organization's policies and procedures and of relevant regulatory codes, ensuring all cloud deployments adhere to required standards.

Lead technical developments to improve the quality of the infrastructure platform to better meet users’ needs.

Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning; gain or maintain professional cloud certifications (e.g., GCP Professional Cloud Architect) to improve performance and fulfill personal potential.

Contribute to developing business cases to quantify current costs, justify project investment, and identify the return on investment for cloud‑based initiatives.

Develop and implement designs providing fault isolation and resolution for complex challenges to limit and address issues promptly.

Design and perform system and component tests and respond to user emails to monitor, diagnose, and correct performance issues as they relate to the infrastructure platform.

Use the organization's formal development framework to identify the team's individual development needs, plan and implement actions to build their capabilities through training or coaching in cloud‑native technologies.

Contribute to the continued improvement of our Infrastructure Automation (IaC) tooling and processes.

Participate in after‑hours support (on‑call) and contribute to knowledge base articles and standard operating procedures to ensure routine cloud tasks are well documented.

Participate in the onboarding and training of new team members.

• Data‑Driven Decision Making – determine and analyze trends from data to assist in compiling reports that help with decision‑making.
• Business Contextualization – understand business context, needs, and architecture to document…