IT Platform Engineer - Advanced
About The Position
The IT Platform Engineer provides engineering and operational support for IT platform technologies that address business needs and enable new IT solutions. The role creates and manages infrastructure and tools that business capability teams use to build and deploy applications, providing stable, scalable, self-service platforms. Work includes automation, reusable components, infrastructure and data resilience, observability, security, and compliance. This broad role requires specialized knowledge across a wider environment. The engineer leads projects, begins mentoring others, and supports the effective integration and operation of global IT systems.
Requirements
- Skills in hosting compute design, engineering, and implementation.
- Skills in infrastructure and platform programming and automation.
- Knowledge of infrastructure operating systems.
- Specialized knowledge of risk exposure.
- Skills in technology deployment and integration.
Responsibilities
- Deploy and configure cloud services, apply governance and security controls, optimize resource use, and ensure environments comply with enterprise standards.
- Administer platform lifecycles, tune performance, and conduct root-cause analysis.
- Build and improve virtualized environments; manage capacity and performance; and support storage and virtualization upgrades and expansions.
- Maintain platform resiliency designs, support recovery operations, and help improve disaster recovery readiness.
- Deploy updates, configure platform components, troubleshoot platform-level issues, and keep application environments stable and supported.
- Create and enhance automation scripts, infrastructure-as-code templates, AI services, and deployment workflows to improve consistency, reduce manual work, and support scalability.
- Analyze observability data, identify trends, and proactively address infrastructure and application platform performance or reliability issues.
- Perform advanced administration, including system refreshes, change management, performance troubleshooting, and cross-platform integration support.
- Help define security best practices and document procedures to prevent security incidents.
- Assist in documenting processes for incident and change management and service requests.
- Lead projects and begin mentoring others.
Benefits
- Pension plan with automatic enrollment at no cost and a monthly retirement annuity.
- Savings plan allowing contributions of 6% to 20% of pay, with a 7% company match for employees contributing at least 6%.
- Workplace flexibility programs, including ad-hoc flexibility around when and where employees work, leaves of absence, and part-time work.
- Comprehensive medical, dental, and vision plans.
- Wellbeing programs and resources through the Culture of Health.
- Confidential professional counseling for employees and their families, with mental health and resiliency resources at no additional cost.
- Disability plan providing income replacement for illness or injury, with automatic enrollment at no cost.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
