Cloud Platform Engineer III

Location: Maryland Heights

Position Details Job Title :

Cloud Platform Engineer III Location :
St. Louis, Missouri 63146

Duration :

FTEJob Summary As a Platform Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in enabling development and operations teams through robust, scalable, and secure platform capabilities. You will help build the foundation that empowers teams to deliver software efficiently, reliably, and securely.

Essential Functions:

we live by the following five core values:
Relationships, Integrity, Teamwork, Balance, and Stability. Our Core Values serve as the fundamental foundation of our corporate culture and drive our interactions, both internally and externally. An essential function of this position is to fully embrace and represent these core values in our daily work life and relationships.

Platform Enablement & Engineering Design, implement, and maintain self-service platform capabilities that streamline application delivery, observability, and operational workflows across the organization

Develop infrastructure and tooling that supports scalable CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and deployment automation using Azure Dev Ops, Terraform, Git Hub, and ARM templates

Standardize and automate platform operations including provisioning, configuration management, secrets management, and runtime orchestration

Observability & Reliability Engineering Engineer comprehensive observability solutions (logging, metrics, traces) using tools such as Azure Monitor, Open Telemetry, and Datadog Implement reliability patterns and SRE-inspired practices to improve service performance, availability, and scalability

Security & Compliance Integration Embed secure-by-default practices into platform tooling and pipelines to support Dev Sec Ops  principles.

Ensure that platform components and services adhere to security baselines, compliance standards, and monitoring for potential threats

Protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information and technology assets against unauthorized disclosure, destruction and/or alteration in accordance with policies, standards, and procedures

Collaboration & Mentorship Collaborate closely with application developers, cloud engineers, data teams, cybersecurity, and product teams to ensure smooth integration of platform services across the SDLCMentor team members and foster a collaborative culture of continuous learning and shared ownership

Incident Management & Operational Excellence Participate in incident response efforts, root cause analysis, and blameless post-mortems to continuously improve platform resilience

Contribute to the operational support model, including participation in a 24/7 on-call rotation as needed

Serve as an escalation point on platform monitoring, tools, and general cloud infrastructure

Preferred Qualifications:

Bachelor’s degree in computer science in IT related field

Five or more professional certifications relevant to cloud, Dev Ops, or security

Demonstrated expertise in Azure ecosystem, including identity, networking, and compute services.

Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, ARM templates, and Ansible.

Strong background in CI/CD systems, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes on Azure), and platform-as-aservice (PaaS) offerings.

Proficient in observability tooling and practices across cloud-native and hybrid environments.

Solid grasp of cloud security practices and integrating security into infrastructure and application delivery pipelines.

Soft Skills Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.

Proven ability to translate complex technical concepts for varied audiences.

Demonstrated leadership and mentoring capabilities in a cross-functional team setting.

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