Senior Platform Engineer; DevOps

IDEXX Dev Ops contributes to the success of IDEXX employees and customers by providing scalable, innovative solutions and technical leadership. Our PAWS (Productivity Automation Workflow Solutions) team builds and operates the internal developer platforms that IDEXX software teams rely on every day – so that engineers across the company can ship faster, safer, and with confidence.

As a Senior Platform Engineer (Dev Ops) you will be a hands‑on member of an agile platform engineering team, building and iterating on the internal AWS, Git Hub Enterprise, Terraform Cloud, and JFrog Artifactory platforms that IDEXX developers and software teams use to build and deliver their products. You write production‑quality Python, collaborate closely with teammates through pair programming, and work directly with internal customers to understand their needs and translate them into well‑crafted platform capabilities.

• Design, build, and maintain automation and tooling for IDEXX’s internal developer platforms using Python as the primary language – covering AWS Organizations, Git Hub Enterprise, and Terraform Cloud, and JFrog Artifactory.
• Implement and manage AWS Organizations policies (Service Control Policies, permission boundaries, account vending) to enforce security standards set by Information Security and Compliance teams.
• Administer and automate Git Hub Enterprise: repository management, access controls, Git Hub Actions runner infrastructure, organization policies, and security configurations.
• Configure and operate Terraform Cloud work spaces, variable sets, policy‑as‑code (Sentinel), and team permissions to enable safe, consistent infrastructure‑as‑code delivery across engineering teams.
• Write clean, well‑tested, maintainable Python code for platform tooling, CLI utilities, automation scripts, and API integrations.
• Participate actively in pair programming, code reviews, and team refinement sessions – platform engineering here is a team sport, not a solo pursuit.

• Work closely with the Platform Lead Engineer and Platform Agile Practitioner to define, refine, and estimate work coming off the platform backlog.
• Collaborate with the Platform Engineering Manager and Platform Product Owner to clarify priorities and ensure delivery aligns with business and technical goals.
• Contribute to sprint ceremonies: planning, stand‑ups, retrospectives, and demos.
• Break down ambiguous problems into well‑defined tickets with clear acceptance criteria.

• Engage directly with internal developer and software teams to understand their platform use cases, pain points, and requirements.
• Translate customer feedback into actionable platform improvements and surface findings to the team during backlog refinement.
• Provide clear, approachable guidance to developers on platform capabilities, best practices, and self‑service workflows.

• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, Dev Ops, or a related infrastructure software engineering role.
• Strong experience in Cloud Formation and Terraform.
• Fluency in Python – you write it daily and are comfortable building production‑quality tooling, automation, and API integrations in it.
• Hands‑on experience administrating AWS Organizations: SCP authoring, account management, Control Tower or similar landing zone frameworks.
• Practical experience with Git Hub Enterprise administration: repository policies, access management, Actions runner configuration, and organization‑level security settings.
• Working knowledge of Terraform Cloud: workspace management, remote state, Sentinel policies, and team permissions.
• Significant exposure to dependency management within software development teams to support the configuration needs of various coding languages.
• Strong collaborative instincts – you thrive in pair programming and agile team settings and actively contribute to collective code quality.
• Ability to work with internal customers to understand their needs and translate them into platform capabilities.
• Comfortable working in a structured agile process with a backlog, sprint cadence, and shared team ceremonies.
• Clear communicator, written and…