Platform Infrastructure Engineer V

Platform Infrastructure Engineer V

Hybrid (Office 3 days/wk – Onsite-Flex) within Portland, OR;
Medford, OR;
Renton, WA;
Burlington, WA;
Vancouver, WA;
Spokane, WA;
Lewiston, ;
Boise, ;
Salt Lake City, UT.

As a senior platform leader and modernization catalyst on the Platform Engineering / Infrastructure Services team, you will lead the implementation of complex, business-critical infrastructure and automation in a high-scale, high-uptime, high-security environment. You’ll combine rigorous engineering discipline with modern platform expertise in cloud, networking, automation, and reliability engineering—tackling complex technical challenges, influencing leadership decisions, and mentoring engineers to elevate team capabilities.

• Platform Infrastructure Engineer V would have a bachelor's degree in Computer Science or related field and 10‑12 years of experience developing tools in support of production environments or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
• Recommended (not required) certifications: AWS Certified Solutions Architect (Associate/Professional), AWS Certified Dev Ops Engineer (Associate/Professional), AWS Certified Sys Ops Administrator (Associate/Professional), AWS Certified Developer (Associate/Professional).

• Deep expertise designing and operating cloud platforms at scale (AWS and/or Azure), with strong reliability, security and availability fundamentals.
• Modern infrastructure engineering:
  Infrastructure as Code and configuration management (preferred: Terraform and/or Ansible) with disciplined change control and automation.
• Strong delivery practices:
  Git‑based workflows (preferred: Git Hub or Git Lab), comfort with frequent incremental changes, testing and repeatable deployments.
• Proven experience building and evolving CI/CD and platform enablement tooling (preferred: Circle
  
  CI).
• Operational excellence: observability strategy (metrics/logs/traces), incident leadership, root‑cause analysis and driving systemic fixes that reduce toil.
• Security‑by‑design mindset: secure baselines, identity and access patterns, secrets management and alignment with compliance requirements.
• Modernization catalyst: defines platform standards, publishes reference architectures and champions adoption across teams to improve developer experience and production outcomes.
• Influence and communication: consults with engineering and business partners, translates needs into pragmatic platform roadmaps and drives alignment across teams.
• Player/coach leadership: mentors engineers, raises the bar on engineering practices and leads through action on complex, highly visible initiatives.
• Cost and efficiency orientation: experience driving operational efficiencies and cost optimization (Fin Ops awareness), including vendor engagement where applicable.
• Responsible automation mindset: evaluates and applies emerging capabilities (including AI‑accelerated workflows where appropriate) to improve delivery speed, reliability and quality.

• Serve as a player/coach who balances hands‑on delivery with team development—building proof‑of‑concepts and production‑grade platform solutions while coaching engineers on best practices and modern infrastructure patterns.
• Lead the design and implementation of secure, scalable cloud foundations and shared services (networking, identity, compute, storage and runtime enablement) that accelerate product delivery.
• Establish and evolve enterprise best practices, golden paths and reference architectures for Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD, environment provisioning and policy‑as‑code.
• Influence platform strategy and roadmap: partner with engineering and business leaders to shape priorities, estimate and plan work, and deliver measurable improvements in uptime, performance and cost efficiency.
• Drive modernization of platform operations through observability standards, resilient design and automation that reduces toil and improves incident response outcomes.
• Lead through action in requirements analysis, systems design, secure configuration, code quality, test automation and documentation for…