Platform Engineer

Overview

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 Dev Ops, SRE, and platform engineering practices.

• Lead and champion Dev Ops 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 work streams, 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.

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:
• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
• Related technical disciplines

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