The Lead Platform Engineer role is responsible for setting strategic priorities for the maintenance of platforms within the current technology environment. The role involves sharing leading best practices and providing guidance to maintain the overall integrity of the platform, including operating systems, hardware and software infrastructure that are critical to the company's user populace and application environments. They foster a culture of collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure that all components of the platform are working efficiently, securely, and resiliently. The Platform Engineer leverages a strategic mindset, offers advice, and drives the development and implementation of security policies to ensure high performance and reliability of the company's infrastructure, including both cloud and on-premises systems, in support of DevOps efforts and general business and IT objectives.

• Set strategic priorities for platform hardware, software, and network requirements in alignment with overall organizational goals
• Share best practices for monitoring system performance, and lead teams responsible for system performance and troubleshooting of issues
• Leverage advanced techniques and methods for optimizing DevOps tools (such as API Gateway, Terraform) to support processes as per organizational needs
• Foster a culture of collaboration among cross-functional teams to ensure new features and services are brought into production
• Leverage a strategic mindset to oversee the execution and maintenance of automated and orchestrated fulfillment mechanisms to optimize delivery of key platform services
• Lead cross-team collaboration and workstreams to ensure smooth operations
• Identify potential security threats, mitigate them proactively and set standards for a strict security compliance
• Drive and oversee the development and implementation of security and resiliency policies, standards, and procedures in line with organizational strategic priorities and latest industry regulations
• Evaluate high-level design documentation, share feedback, and provide recommendations
• Interpret results and present findings from technical research regarding user requests for new/modified systems or severe problem resolution
• Foster strong relationships with vendors to create mutually beneficial opportunities for the organization

• Education
  • Required
    • Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field. In lieu of a degree, at least 12 years of experience in the role of Platform Engineer or related position
  • Preferred
    • Azure Solutions Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer preferred
• Skills and Experience

Knowledge & Experience

• 6-8 years of experience in platform engineering and infrastructure components
• Expertise in automated interaction with physical, virtual, or cloud infrastructure
• Proven track record in managing and maintaining cloud-based environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
• Expertise in monitoring and log management tools such as Nagios, Splunk, and ELK
• Proven track record in developing and implementing backup and disaster recovery strategies
• Expertise in scripting experience in languages such as Python, PowerShell, and Bash
• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, and Terraform

Technical Skills

• Programming Languages
• Cloud Technologies & Platforms
• Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
• DevOps Methodology
• Software Packaging and Deployment Procedures
• Operating Systems
• Network Operations, Configuration, & Services
• Containerization
• Monitoring and Logging
• Integration Technology

Preferred

• Experience with enterprise data tools and platforms such as Snowflake, MicroStrategy, Informatica, Fivetran, Business Objects, Tableau, Dataiku.
• Familiar with networking fundamentals such as load balancers, firewalls, application proxies, and security brokers.
• Working knowledge of RESTful development practices.

This position works in the office three days a week and is eligible to work remotely two days a week.