Principal Platform Engineer (Google Cloud

Principal Platform Engineer

The Principal Platform Engineer is a seasoned and technical leader who will create and redesign broad technical infrastructure and information systems that define how servers, networks, and storage systems work together to support the needs of the organization. Document current-state architecture, design ideal-state architecture, and develop plans and solutions to deploy new solutions that meet emerging business needs. Ensure stability and scalability, anticipating capacity growth through careful planning and awareness of trends.

Develop teams and engineers within the organization, setting project deadlines and improving engineering processes and technologies.

We are specifically looking for GCP experience. This role will be located in Springfield MO without any exceptions.

• Direct and oversee infrastructure developments and maintenance to ensure business requirements can be met.
• Drive advances in technologies and architectures to increase the value delivered by technology and digital capabilities.
• Create/manage project storyboards/viewpoints that articulate project requirements and lead to successful implementation of work.
• Elicit complex project requirements using a variety of methods to express the requirements in terms of target user roles and goals.
• Document complex "as is" and "to be" processes and describe the changes required to migrate to the "to be" capability.
• Explore and develop a detailed understanding of external developments or emerging issues and evaluate their potential impact on the organization.
• Conduct complex feasibility studies from a technological and organizational perspective and document findings to complete cost-benefit analysis on implementing changes.
• Support Information Security in detecting and analyzing security incidents and remediate any security gaps.
• Maintain and renew a deep knowledge and understanding of the organization's policies and procedures and ensure own work adheres to required standards.
• Discuss and recommend more complex or innovative technical developments to improve the quality of the infrastructure platform.
• Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning activities and formal and informal training.
• Develop straightforward business cases to quantify current costs, justify project investment, and identify the return on investment.
• Use the organization's formal development framework to identify the team's individual development needs and plan and implement actions to build their professional capabilities.
• Design systems which provide fault isolation and resolution for complex challenges to limit and address issues promptly.
• Design and monitor the quality of system and component tests and respond to user emails to monitor, diagnose, and correct performance issues.
• Contribute to the continued improvement of our Infrastructure Automation tooling and processes.
• Participate in after hours support, including applicable oncall responsibilities.
• Contribute to Knowledge Base articles and Standard Operating Procedures, ensuring routine tasks and problems are well documented.
• Participate in the onboarding and training of new team members.

• Determine and analyze trends from data to assist in compiling reports that will help in decision-making.
• Understand business context, needs, rules, and architecture, as well as organizational structure, cultures, capabilities, and processes to document the current state of processes and the business.
• Express user needs in terms of business requirements, identify current capability of the business to deliver, conduct build or buy analyses, and recommend preferred approach.
• Develop an effective change strategy based on gap analyses and enterprise readiness assessment results, including transitions states and release plans.
• Conduct gap analysis between current and future states to identify components of the overall change strategy.
• Design, execute and report on systems/service tests to ensure that an application functions as specified in the requirements.
• Interpret, contribute to, or lead business case creation with client departments to quantify current costs, justify project investment, and identify the return on investment.
• Create reports, and review reports created by others, for various audiences as relevant, in a lucid and effective manner, keeping in mind the purpose of reports.
• Review and evaluate recommendations and requirements and to develop appropriate plans or deliver actions required.
• Develop and execute architectures, policies and practices in order to manage the information lifecycle needs of an organization.
• Work directly with Architecture in developing an enterprise readiness assessment to determine the organization's readiness for change.
• Adopt solutions to automate and manage multiple applications and functions within an organization.
• Manage and administer various infrastructure components such as compute, storage, cloud, network, observability and…