Senior Platform Engineer

Note: This position can work Remote in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, or California

As a Senior Platform Engineer, you’ll play a critical role in shaping the foundation that powers our engineering organization. You’ll design, define, and evolve the platforms, standards, and automation that enable teams to deliver scalable, reliable, and secure solutions. This is a highly impactful role where your architecture decisions will influence how engineering teams build, deploy, and operate across the enterprise.

• Architect platform “golden paths,” self-service provisioning frameworks, and reusable reference implementations
• Lead platform architecture reviews, technology evaluations, vendor assessments, and toolchain investment decisions
• Design and implement enterprise policy-as-code frameworks using Azure Policy and Ansible Automation Platform
• Define RBAC models, network segmentation strategies, secrets management practices, and zero-trust architectures
• Develop Ansible content strategies, reusable module libraries, and workflow orchestration using Tower/AWX
• Establish enterprise observability architecture, including telemetry standards, monitoring configuration, and alerting strategies
• Define and govern SLO/SLI frameworks and error budgets across platforms
• Lead incident response for platform-level issues, including postmortems and corrective actions
• Drive reliability engineering practices such as chaos engineering and resilience validation
• Architect infrastructure that supports AI/ML workloads including model serving, monitoring, and registry governance
• Partner cross-functionally with system, cloud, network, and application teams to design scalable automation workflows
• Define multi-region cloud strategies, including active/active and active/passive configurations and workload placement
• Mentor fellow engineers and serve as a technical escalation point for complex platform challenges

• You have a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field (Required). An equivalent combination of education and experience can be considered in lieu of a degree.
• You have 6+ years of experience in platform engineering, cloud architecture, or infrastructure automation at enterprise scale (Required)
• You have experience working in banking, financial services, or other regulated industries (Preferred)
• You hold advanced certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or Red Hat Certified Architect (RHCA) (Preferred)

• You bring strong communication and problem-solving skills, with the ability to influence architecture and engineering standards across teams
• You have deep expertise in Azure cloud architecture, including landing zones, governance, and FinOps practices
• You are highly proficient in Ansible, including module design, role standardization, and enterprise automation frameworks
• You have strong coding and scripting skills in Python, Bash, or PowerShell
• You have advanced experience with Kubernetes platform engineering, including multi-tenant governance and Helm architecture
• You excel in designing observability systems using tools like New Relic and OpenTelemetry
• You have a strong background in security architecture, including secrets management, vulnerability integration, and compliance frameworks
• You bring experience or strong interest in AI/ML platform architecture, including model serving, monitoring, and lifecycle governance
• You understand cost optimization and cloud financial management through advanced FinOps practices

• Occasional travel required

• Do the right thing
• Teamwork
• Accountability
• Trust

"I have the opportunity to learn and grow every day in my current role. I love the work life balance, knowing that we work hard, and strive for high performance but we are celebrated." – Glassdoor review