Senior Platform Engineer: Cloud, IaC & SRE Lead

We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to drive the evolution, reliability, and automation of our cloud-native (GCP) and hybrid infrastructure. In this role, you will bridge the gap between development and operations by building robust CI/CD pipelines, scaling Infrastructure as Code (IaC), and championing SRE practices to maximize system uptime. As a technical leader, you will mentor junior engineers, lead blameless postmortems, and collaborate cross-functionally to turn complex business requirements into resilient, secure, and scalable platform solutions.

• Driving direction of a specific platform or application including creation of new environments, software upgrades, and tuning.
• Driving the creation and amendment of automation scripts and supporting documentation.
• Provide software deployment services for QA and production environments.
• Direct application performance monitoring and tuning.
• Be actively involved in protecting the uptime and performance of the application. Provide knowledge and expertise in the development and operational support and maintenance for a range of applications and tools.
• Define the updates to the production environment.
• Responsible for the installation, set up and support of third party software running on internal managed environments.
• Designing and setting up deployment procedures, setting up robust processes, monitoring production systems and managing configuration.
• Provide mentorship to junior team members.
• Ability to understand complex business issues and identify technical solutions.
• Communicate direction clearly to other members of the team.
• Manage system(s) uptime across cloud-native (GCP) and hybrid architectures.
• Build infrastructure as code (IAC) patterns that meet security and engineering standards using one or more technologies (Terraform, scripting with cloud CLI, and programming with cloud SDK).
• Build CI/CD pipelines for build, test and deployment of application and cloud architecture patterns, using platform (Jenkins) and cloud-native tool chains.
• Build automated tooling to deploy service requests to push a change into production. Build runbooks that are comprehensive and detailed to manage detect, remediate and restore services.
• Solve problems and triage complex distributed architecture service maps. On call for high severity application incidents and improving run books to improve MTTR.
• Lead availability blameless postmortem and own the call to action to remediate recurrences.

• BS degree in Computer Science or related technical field involving coding (e.g., physics or mathematics), or equivalent job experience required.
• Basic certification in key platform tool(s) and/or 5-7 years of relevant experience.
• Cloud Certification Strongly Preferred.
• 2+ years of experience developing and/or administering software in public cloud (AWS, GCP, Azure).
• Experience in monitoring infrastructure and application uptime and availability to ensure functional and performance objectives.
• Experience in languages such as Python, Bash, Java, Go, JavaScript and/or node.js.
• Demonstrable cross-functional knowledge with systems, storage, networking, security and databases.
• System administration skills, including automation and orchestration of Linux/Windows using Terraform, Chef, Ansible and/or containers (Docker, Kubernetes, etc.).
• Proficiency with continuous integration and continuous delivery tooling and practices.
• Cloud Certification Strongly Preferred.

• An ability to demonstrate successful performance of our Success Profile skills, including:
• Dev Sec Ops  - Uses Dev Sec Ops  operational practices and applies engineering skills to improve resilience of products/services. Designs, codes, verifies, tests, documents, modifies complex programs/scripts and integrates software services. Contributes to the selection of the software development methods, tools, and techniques. Applies agreed SRE standards and tools to achieve a well-engineered result. Participates in reviews of own work and leads reviews of colleagues' work.
• Operational Excellence - Develops work plans for short-term assignments of moderate complexity, typically contained within…