Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

6 Months contract Later hire (C2H)

Onsite Canton, MA- Hybrid Model

Job description:

Position Description

• Seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to support a high impact enterprise cloud modernization initiative for one of our strategic clients.
• This role is ideal for someone who enjoys solving complex platform challenges across Azure, Azure Red Hat OpenShift, Kubernetes, Terraform, CI/CD automation, and cloud native infrastructure.
• You'll help design, build, and support secure, scalable cloud solutions, improve deployment automation, strengthen reliability and observability, and partner closely with engineering, architecture, security, and operations teams.
• This is a hands-on technical role with senior level visibility, giving you the opportunity to influence platform best practices, support production deployments, guide cloud engineering improvements, and contribute to a modern, well governed cloud environment through client delivery model.
• This position will be performed in Canton, MA, however a hybrid working model is acceptable.

Your future duties and responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with our engineering teams to identify and implement the most optimal cloud based solutions.
• Define and document best practices and strategies regarding application deployment and infrastructure maintenance.
• Design and implement cloud infrastructure solutions that meet our business requirements and align with our IT strategy.
• Ensure application performance, uptime, and scale while maintaining high standards for code quality and thoughtful design.
• Guide and coach, the more junior engineers on the team as they grow in their skills and gain experience within the Cloud Engineering space.
• Provide technical leadership in the deployment and operational management of cloud solutions.
• Design and maintain the Cloud provisioning templates required for building and managing our Cloud platforms while adhering to our clients Security, Compliance, and Performance standards and policies.
• Design and maintain the CI/CD pipelines for building and managing our cloud native applications while adhering to our clients Security, Compliance, and Performance standards and policies.
• Design, build, and deploy Cloud applications, including large scale data processing, computationally intensive statistical modeling, and advanced analytics.
• Participate in all aspects of the SDLC for Cloud solutions, including planning, requirements, development, testing, and quality assurance.
• Troubleshoot incidents, identify root causes, fix and document problems, and implement preventive measures
• Educate teams on the implementation of new cloud-based initiatives, providing associated training when necessary.
• Demonstrate exceptional problem-solving skills, with an ability to see and solve issues before they affect business productivity.
• Develop and maintain supporting documentation for all automated processes.
• Work closely with Prod and Non-Prod environment owners to develop and maintain a role-based workflow that supports segregated duties.
• Coordinate and lead training and information sharing meetings with the rest of the Cloud Engineering team.
• Oversee and support Production deployments during major release activities for components owned by the Cloud Engineering team.
• Serve as SME (subject matter expert) in several committees pertaining to Cloud Governance and Architecture.
• Other duties and projects as assigned.

Required qualifications to be successful in this role

• Required (minimum): 5 7 years of related IT experience.
• Preferred: 5 7 years of experience in a Cloud Engineering or DevOps role with knowledge of AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud platforms.
• Strong leadership including ability to influence others, work independently and exercise appropriate judgment in decision making
• Proven ability to collaborate with multidisciplinary teams of business analysts, developers, data scientists, and subject matter experts
• Strong verbal and written communication skills and the ability to communicate effectively with management, peers, and the other departments within IT.
• Respect for change management, environmental integrity, and process workflow within a relatively new and rapidly maturing organization.
• Strong analytical and technical ability including strength in general issue troubleshooting
• Understanding of and experience with the five pillars of a well architected framework
• Ability to quickly learn client's specific processes, topology, tools often with limited documentation

Technical experience with the following:

• OS Level Administration (Linux, Windows), IaC Provisioning Tools (Terraform, ARM, Ansible, CloudFormation), Software development lifecycle principles, Build Orchestration Tools (Jenkins, Bamboo, etc.)
• Azure experience with Terraform and IaC Strategy is highly desirable
• Critical skills and experience around Azure/AWS and OpenShift / Kubernetes
• Preferred experience with deployment Tools (CD/RO, Ansible, Azure DevOps, etc.) and Source Control Management (GitHub, SVN, BitBucket, etc.)
• Proficiency in scripting languages such as Python, Bash, or JavaScript.
• Experience with container technologies (Docker, Kubernetes) and microservices architecture.
• Familiarity with DevOps principles and CI/CD tools like CloudBees/Jenkins, GitLab, or GitHub Actions.
• Education: Bachelor's Degree