Senior Software Engineer – Platform Job Joplin area,Missouri USA,Software Development

General Motors is seeking a Senior Software Engineer to support, design, and improve delivery of enterprise applications, integrations, and intelligent platform capabilities across the Global Physical Security and Medical portfolio.
This role focuses on modernizing mission-critical solutions across on‑prem, cloud, SaaS, and hybrid environments, strengthening system reliability, enabling scalable integrations, and driving technical execution across a complex operational landscape.
The Senior Software Engineer will also help introduce AI‑enabled capabilities in practical, secure, and responsible ways, supporting automation, advanced insights, and intelligent workflows that improve both service delivery and business decision-making.
Build, maintain, and support COTS applications on Unix and Windows platforms that are essential to business operations.
Deploy applications and infrastructure as code using Terraform and similar tools.
Lead and support application migrations to SaaS and cloud‑based platforms.
Create, maintain, and improve automation and operational scripts for deployments, backups, monitoring, rollbacks, and routine maintenance.
Build and support CI/CD pipelines across applications, integrations, and platform services.
Monitor platform health and data pipelines, including alerting, capacity planning, performance tuning, and operational readiness.
Plan and execute backups, disaster recovery testing, and restore procedures for supported applications.
Enforce security best practices including secrets management, RBAC, patching, vulnerability remediation, SSO/SAML, and audit logging.
Troubleshoot incidents across the application and integration stack, perform root cause analysis, and produce post‑incident documentation.
Maintain runbooks, playbooks, technical documentation, and regular housekeeping procedures.
Drive improvements in system reliability, maintainability, observability, and supportability.
Apply modern engineering practices including Agile, Dev Sec Ops , CI/CD, automated testing, and release governance.
Identify and implement AI and intelligent automation opportunities that improve efficiency, user experience, and business outcomes.
Develop agentic AI solutions that streamline business processes and enable practical, secure, and responsible use of AI.
Evaluate new tools and technologies through proofs of concept.
Mentor junior engineers and collaborate cross‑functionally to deliver scalable platform and integration solutions.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field.
5+ years of professional software engineering, systems engineering, or platform support experience.
Strong experience with scripting and automation using Bash, Python, Java or similar languages.
Hands‑on experience with Terraform, Git Hub, Linux, Windows Server, and SSO/SAML.
Experience with cloud platforms such as AWS and/or Azure.
Experience building and supporting CI/CD pipelines, deployment automation, testing strategies, and environment promotion.
Experience with Databricks Asset Bundles, Git Hub Actions, or similar modern delivery tooling.
Experience deploying and supporting containerized applications using Docker, Kubernetes, or similar technologies.
Experience with SQL and No

SQL databases such as PostgreSQL, MongoDB, and Redis.
Strong Linux administration and networking fundamentals.
Solid understanding of security practices including RBAC, secrets management, TLS, patching, and audit controls.
Demonstrated ability to evaluate, design, and implement deployment architectures for complex data and application platforms.
Excellent troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.

Hard Skills

software engineering
scripting
automation
Terraform
CI/CD
containerization
SQL
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SQL
Linux administration
networking fundamentals

Soft Skills

troubleshooting
communication
documentation
mentoring
collaboration

Certifications & Qualifications

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science
Bachelor’s degree in Engineering
Bachelor’s degree in Mathematics

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