Sr Platform Engineer (Datacenter Engineering)

Job summary

The Senior Platform Engineer builds and operates platform services across on-premises infrastructure and public and private cloud, applying DevSecOps practices and Site Reliability Engineering principles. The role manages OpenShift Virtualization and Kubernetes workloads, automates services with Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation, and supports enterprise operating system lifecycle management, security hardening, resiliency, data protection, and disaster recovery across AWS and GCP environments.

Qualifications

• At least 5 years of infrastructure or platform engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience managing Red Hat OpenShift, OpenShift Virtualization, and Kubernetes workloads.
• Experience provisioning images, managing templates, and supporting shared resources for OpenShift workloads.
• Hands-on experience with AWS or GCP and multi-account security models.
• Experience with on-premises technologies such as VMware and Linux or Windows server administration.
• Foundational system administration and networking knowledge, including firewalls, proxies, IP management, routing, and DNS.
• Experience with Red Hat Ansible Automation Platform, including job templates, workflows, inventories, credentials, and Execution Environments.
• Experience building and maintaining Ansible content to automate on-premises and cloud services.
• Knowledge of operating system hardening and standardized image-based deployments.
• Familiarity with RESTful APIs, GraphQL, microservices, and related endpoints for configuration, data extraction, and automation.
• Knowledge of security best practices, secure coding, secrets management, and certificate management.
• Experience with Python, Linux, Shell, Bash, or another programming language.
• Proficiency with Git or GitLab, source control branching, and CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of resilient system design, high availability, and disaster recovery.
• Ability to collaborate in agile processes and communicate technical information.

Responsibilities

• Manage virtual machine and container workloads on OpenShift Virtualization and Kubernetes.
• Provision and manage images, templates, and shared resources for OpenShift workloads.
• Build automation for on-premises and cloud environments using Terraform, Ansible, and CloudFormation.
• Deliver platform services across AWS accounts or GCP projects within multi-account security models.
• Manage enterprise operating system lifecycles, including golden images, patching, and hardening.
• Contribute to resiliency, data protection, and disaster recovery solutions.
• Own automation projects from design through delivery.
• Develop and maintain Ansible playbooks and roles using team coding standards and Git workflows.
• Evaluate technologies and support re-engineering and continuous improvement.
• Document design decisions, estimates, code modules, and performance metrics.
• Participate in platform, code, and documentation walkthroughs.
• Ensure work meets design, performance, quality, and security standards; recommend improvements.
• Analyze CPU, memory, and storage performance data.
• Assess appropriate use of agentic solutions in critical systems.

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