Systems Engineer III - Platform Product Engineer (Remote)

First Citizens Bank • Raleigh, NC

3d • Remote

About The Position

The Platform Product Engineer III helps engineer, integrate, and automate the enterprise Internal Developer Platform. As part of a team, the role builds self-service capabilities, service catalog components, templates, golden paths, automation workflows, and developer experience solutions. This is a remote role open in multiple markets across the United States.

The position calls for a hands-on platform engineer with experience in automation, APIs, developer portals, GitOps, infrastructure as code, and engineering productivity initiatives. Responsibilities are allocated across platform development (35%), platform integrations (25%), automation engineering (20%), platform adoption (10%), and operational excellence (10%). The role also involves building and supporting integrations across CI/CD, automation, security, observability, cloud, and service management platforms.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and 4 years of experience, or a high school diploma or GED/equivalent and 8 years of experience in systems engineering.
• 6 or more years of experience in systems engineering, automation engineering, DevOps, platform engineering, or infrastructure engineering.
• Experience with enterprise architecture leadership, integration architecture, and mentoring senior engineers.
• Knowledge or experience in IDP architecture, platform engineering, service catalog architecture, golden paths, platform APIs, GitOps, infrastructure as code (IaC), and platform automation.
• Experience with automation, APIs, developer portals, GitOps, IaC, and engineering productivity initiatives.
• Platform integration experience across CI/CD, automation, security, observability, cloud, and service management platforms.

Nice To Haves

• Scripting.
• Policy-as-Code.
• Observability.
• Kubernetes.
• AI-assisted engineering tools.

Responsibilities

• Engineer, integrate, and automate the enterprise Internal Developer Platform.
• Build self-service capabilities, service catalog components, templates, golden paths, automation workflows, and developer experience solutions.
• Perform platform development (35% of responsibilities).
• Perform platform integrations (25% of responsibilities).
• Perform automation engineering (20% of responsibilities).
• Support platform adoption (10% of responsibilities).
• Contribute to operational excellence (10% of responsibilities).
• Build and support integrations across CI/CD, automation, security, observability, cloud, and service management platforms.

Benefits

• The employer describes a competitive benefits program as part of its total rewards offering; details are available through the linked benefits page.
• Potential variable incentives, bonuses, benefits, and/or other awards may be included for some roles, as outlined in the offer of employment.

What This Job Offers

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