Senior Platform Engineer

HP • San Francisco, CA

6d • Hybrid

About The Position

As a Senior Platform Engineer at HP IQ, you will help build and evolve the infrastructure, tooling, and shared platform capabilities that enable our engineering teams to develop and operate reliable, secure, and scalable services across cloud and edge environments. You will work closely with application, services, AI/ML, and security teams to improve developer velocity, production readiness, reliability, and operational efficiency across a heterogeneous infrastructure footprint.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, SRE, Production Engineering, Infrastructure Engineering, or a similar role.
• Strong experience building and operating production systems across cloud, on-prem, or edge environments.
• Experience with containers, Kubernetes, networking, and distributed systems.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code and deployment automation.
• Experience with CI/CD and modern observability practices.
• Strong software development and automation skills, preferably in Python or a similar language.
• Strong understanding of security, reliability, and production operations.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex systems across application, infrastructure, network, and hardware boundaries.

Nice To Haves

• Experience building internal developer platforms or self-service infrastructure.
• Experience operating distributed systems across cloud and edge environments.
• Experience with secrets management, identity, PKI, or infrastructure security.
• Experience with highly available systems, distributed databases, and production data infrastructure.
• Experience partnering with application teams to improve architecture and production readiness.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain shared infrastructure and platform capabilities across cloud and edge environments.
• Build automation and self-service tooling that improves engineering velocity and operational consistency.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code, deployment workflows, and environment provisioning.
• Partner with engineering teams on production readiness, including reliability, security, observability, scalability, and recovery.
• Improve monitoring, alerting, incident response, and operational tooling across distributed environments.
• Automate repetitive operational tasks and reduce infrastructure complexity.
• Help define platform architecture, engineering standards, and technical roadmaps.
• Participate in an on-call rotation for systems owned by the team.

Benefits

• Health insurance
• Dental insurance
• Vision insurance
• Long term/short term disability insurance
• Employee assistance program
• Flexible spending account
• Life insurance
• Generous time off policies, including; 4-12 weeks fully paid parental leave based on tenure
• 11 paid holidays
• Additional flexible paid vacation and sick leave

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior
• Education Level: No Education Listed