Senior Platform Engineer - Parametric

Senior Platform Engineer

The Senior Platform Engineer will partner with cloud-native application development teams with direct business alignment - empowering them to deliver quality software at high velocity, rapidly receive actionable feedback, and cultivating an environment of continuous experimentation. Additionally, the Senior Platform Engineer will create reusable components and workflows that deliver superior developer experience.

Primary Responsibilities

• Function as subject matter expert in the areas of delivering and operating reliable, performant, robust, and secure applications
• Work with the development teams to design, document, create and maintain highly available systems
• Design, implement, and manage centralized monitoring solutions that provide expedient actionable feedback to the development teams
• Partner with the application development teams to create flows, processes, automation, and tooling
• Create an environment of continuous experimentation and learning
• Contribute to evolution of our architecture (cloud-focused) to increase its flexibility and ease of use
• Follow technology trends/tools and recommend improvements to our technology when appropriate
• Mentor new or less senior members of the team
• Share experience, knowledge, and ideas to the team to improve processes and productivity
• Provide tier 2 and 3 escalations for related issues and questions

Job Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or related area of study
• 5+ years of hands-on Platform Engineering (i.e., Dev Ops, Sys Ops, SRE) experience with a proven track record of people and thought leadership to achieve strategic objectives
• 5+ years of hands-on experience with cloud-native solution architectures and related platform support, i.e., Cyber Security, Infrastructure as Code (IAC), Observability
• Ability to dive deep and get hands-on to contribute to platform engineering solutions
• Expertise in automation strategies for cloud-native solutions (pipelines, IAC, test suites)
• Proven experience with AWS and/or Azure cloud platforms
• Experience implementing IAC - Terraform preferred
• Experience using Git Hub and engineering YAML based ci/cd pipelines
• Experience implementing and operating container orchestration platforms (e.g., Kubernetes)
• Developer enablement mindset with an ability to collaborate across technology teams
• Experience with Vulnerability Management tooling (SAST and SCA scanning) integration with SDLC toolchain
• Experience using Gen AI tooling for software development and testing productivity
• Expertise scripting with Python, BASH, Power Shell