Platform Engineer

Stefanini Group • Dearborn, MI

13d • Onsite

About The Position

Stefanini Group is hiring! Stefanini is looking for a Platform Engineer in Dearborn, MI (Onsite) For quick apply, please reach out to Adil Khan at 248-728- 6424/ [email protected] We are looking for a Platform Engineer to help product teams deliver securely, reliably, and quickly. This role leans toward cloud infrastructure, DevOps, and Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), with strong software development skills.

Requirements

• Managed production-grade infrastructure on major cloud platforms like GCP.
• Designed multi-region GCP networks using VPCs, subnets, firewalls, and NAT, managed with Terraform and GitOps.
• Strong understanding of networking, IAM boundaries, and tradeoffs between managed services and self-hosted solutions.
• Built production-grade Python tools or automation with structured, testable, and maintainable code.
• Automated tasks like querying GCP Asset Inventory, generating IAM reports, and creating tickets with retry/error handling.
• Operated GCP services like Cloud Run, Workload Identity, Secret Manager, and VPC Service Controls.
• Applied GCP-specific reliability and security patterns with hands-on experience.
• Supported internal developer teams by handling on-call rotations, resolving incidents, and delivering systemic fixes.
• Managed production Kubernetes clusters, performed upgrades, configured policies, and debugged issues.
• Configured HPA/VPA for autoscaling and troubleshot pod scheduling and service mesh connectivity.
• Strong understanding of Kubernetes control planes for debugging and management
• Cloud Platforms : Experience managing production-grade systems on GCP, AWS, or Azure with an SRE mindset.
• Linux & Networking : Strong fundamentals in Linux, distributed systems, and debugging production issues.
• Infrastructure as Code : Skilled in tools like Terraform, Helm, Kustomize, and GitOps practices.
• Containers & Orchestration : Proficient in Docker, Kubernetes, and modern CI/CD tools.
• Programming : Experience with languages like Python, Go, Java, or TypeScript for building tools and automation.
• Communication : Clear communicator with effective incident leadership and a customer-first approach.

Nice To Haves

• Wrote Go for platform tooling or infrastructure automation.
• Developed Kubernetes admission webhooks to enforce security policies or CLI tools for secret management.
• Produced idiomatic Go with proper error handling, context propagation, and unit tests.
• Contributed to or led the design of multi-team or multi-service platform architectures.
• Designed shared service networks (hub-and-spoke models), CI/CD templates, and service mesh configurations.
• Documented architecture patterns adopted by teams and articulated tradeoffs in design reviews.
• Implemented SRE practices, including SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Configured SLO-based alerting in Prometheus/Grafana and used burn rate alerts for incident management.
• SLI/SLO Expertise : Experience defining SLIs/SLOs and implementing SLO-based alerting and dashboards.
• Observability Platforms : Familiarity with Prometheus/Grafana, OpenTelemetry, and centralized logging.
• Security Practices : Knowledge of policy-as-code, supply chain security, SBOMs, and artifact signing.
• Standardized Solutions : Experience creating reusable golden paths (e.g., container images, templates, pipelines).
• Cost Optimization : Skilled in FinOps practices, capacity planning, and multi-tenant platform controls.
• Go : Proficient in writing idiomatic Go for platform tooling or infrastructure automation.
• Cloud Architecture : Experience designing multi-service or multi-team platform architectures.
• Reliability Engineering : Practical implementation of SRE practices, including SLIs, SLOs, error budgets, and alerting.

Responsibilities

• Design and Operate Cloud Infrastructure: Build and manage cloud platforms, including networking, compute, Kubernetes, CI/CD, secrets, and identity.
• Define Reliability Metrics: Establish and enhance SLIs, SLOs, and error budgets.
• Implement Observability: Set up metrics, logs, and traces with actionable alerts.
• Automate Workflows: Develop self-service workflows (e.g., infrastructure as code, GitOps, CI/CD pipelines) to reduce manual efforts.
• Enhance Security & Compliance: Drive least-privilege access, secure defaults, and policy-as-code.
• Incident Management: Participate in on-call rotations, handle incidents, lead postmortems, and deliver fixes.
• Collaborate with Teams: Partner with application teams to improve deployability, resilience, and cost efficiency.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level