Platform Engineer

• Own and operate AWS EKS clusters, including upgrades, node groups, managed add-ons, logging, and capacity planning
• Author, maintain, and review Helm charts for application services, Kafka, Redis, PostgreSQL, and observability layers
• Design and implement IAM/IRSA roles, KMS key policies, and Secrets Manager integrations using least-privilege principles
• Enforce platform security standards, Pod Security Standards, Network Policies, container hardening, and PCI DSS 3.2.1 compliance gates
• Manage ECR image registry, scanning policies, base image governance, and lifecycle rules
• Build and maintain AWS CDK infrastructure constructs for EKS, MSK, S3, RDS, DynamoDB, Secrets Manager, VPC, and supporting services
• Define and operate ingress patterns, AWS ALB, ACM certificates, Route 53 DNS, and External Secrets Operator
• Lead platform security reviews and validate infrastructure changes against compliance standards
• Collaborate with Rust, Go, Java, and C++ application teams to onboard workloads and resolve platform issues
• Drive GitOps delivery with ArgoCD, CI/CD integration, and feature branch release workflows
• Define platform standards, runbooks, and onboarding guides
• Serve as platform SME, mentor engineers, lead design discussions, and make AWS platform architecture decisions
• Design, code, prototype, and validate core Decision Management Platform capabilities using AI-assisted development tools

Principal Kubernetes Platform Engineer

• Design, evolve, and govern internal enterprise platforms that accelerate delivery, deployment safety, and operational reliability
• Drive enterprise observability, automated CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure as Code, and compliance automation
• Reduce operational toil and standardize environment configurations across vendors and integrated business applications
• Architect, build, and maintain scalable end-to-end automated UI and API test suites using Playwright and TypeScript
• Develop automated data generation tools and synthetic applicant profile generators using Python and REST APIs
• Build front-end tools in React and TypeScript for vendors and government stakeholders to generate test scenarios and monitor pipeline status
• Construct, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines with quality gates and feature-driven promotion practices
• Build reusable engineering patterns, self-service platform capabilities, CLI utilities, and starter kits
• Conduct code reviews and provide 1:1 mentorship
• Serve as a technical liaison to client leads and external vendor teams
• Support cloud infrastructure updates using Terraform
• Embed automated security scanning and navigate continuous compliance in a FedRAMP/Public Trust environment
• Collaborate on systems supporting tens of millions of American students and borrowers

Staff Platform Engineer

• Lead the build, configuration, and sustainment of a Software Factory capability for the US Space Force
• Determine guidelines and standards for deploying to Azure Cloud infrastructure and Kubernetes environments
• Stand up and operate multiple Kubernetes cluster environments in Azure cloud, including lab and classified production environments
• Deploy and configure Jira, Confluence, GitLab, and other DevSecOps tools on virtual machines and Kubernetes clusters
• Direct resources and assist with automation for virtual machine infrastructure-as-code pipelines using Packer, Ansible, and shell scripts
• Provide DevSecOps support to application teams and customers through automation, architectures, and wikis
• Serve as a DevSecOps architect, engineer, and coach for the DevSecOps team
• Facilitate platform development and help development teams mature their delivery practices
• Monitor, patch, upgrade, and remediate vulnerabilities in Kubernetes nodes and platform applications
• Maintain and enhance software and infrastructure-as-code build, test, and deployment CI/CD pipelines
• Deploy and manage FOSS and vendor Kubernetes distributions using Linux-based VMs in Azure
• Deploy and manage Jira, Confluence, and GitLab on Azure-hosted virtual machines
• Use Helm to deploy, manage, and integrate Harbor, SonarQube, Keycloak, Nexus, ArgoCD, and other software into Kubernetes clusters
• Onboard user teams onto the Software Factory platform and assist with application and infrastructure integration via automated pipelines
• Define system and application security requirements for Azure and Kubernetes deployments
• Educate teams on DevSecOps practices and tooling
• Recommend innovations that enhance DevSecOps capabilities and competitive advantage

Lead Platform Engineer

• Manage and resolve issues against ServiceNow applications
• Advise internal teams and lines of business regarding process and technology inefficiencies within the platform
• Perform routine maintenance, including performance monitoring and error identification/remediation
• Maintain and improve overall platform stability and incorporate identified best practices
• Apply ServiceNow best practices and remediate technical debt in the Now platform
• Manage instance security, user/group access, roles, associated relationships, and ACLs
• Provide platform training and knowledge to internal teams and external business partners
• Develop a platform-wide reporting strategy and maintenance plan
• Analyze, design, and develop systems based on user specifications
• May assist with training less experienced staff
• May serve as project leader for specific projects

ServiceNow Platform Engineer

• Write and maintain code to automate public cloud infrastructure and the Internal Developer Platform
• Document system design, configurations, processes, and decisions for an asynchronous, distributed team culture
• Collaborate with remote engineers to build the Veeam Data Cloud platform
• Work with containers, serverless infrastructure, public cloud services, and other cutting-edge SaaS technologies
• Participate in an on-call rotation for product operations

• Maintain and support services across the full NBA platform and understand how components integrate
• Monitor platform health and investigate and resolve production issues, bottlenecks, failures, and scaling constraints
• Design and ship focused features, enhancements, and technical improvements across platform components
• Extend logging, metrics, tracing, and alerting for production visibility
• Profile and tune components under load to improve performance and scalability
• Write tests, participate in code reviews, and uphold engineering standards
• Participate in the on-call rotation and lead root-cause analysis
• Convert incidents into durable fixes and preventative improvements
• Work with delivery pods and Decision Intelligence to understand new components and assume long-term ownership

Senior Platform Engineer

• Architect cloud and hybrid infrastructure across cloud providers and on-premises locations with multi-region high availability and disaster recovery
• Participate in Site Reliability Engineering practices and automate away operational toil
• Mentor Platform Engineers and participate in knowledge-sharing sessions
• Scale systems sustainably through automation and reliability improvements
• Practice sustainable incident response and blameless postmortems
• Drive the technical vision for Platform Engineering-owned platforms and optimize the technology stack
• Develop software solutions for application and cloud infrastructure management and eliminate ClickOps
• Build a modern platform combining purpose-made code and industry-standard tools
• Develop deployment, monitoring, alerting, and operations automation tools
• Own platform implementation and functionality end-to-end from the end-user perspective
• Maintain live services by measuring and monitoring availability, latency, and system performance
• Design and build petabyte-scale systems for high availability, throughput, data consistency, security, and privacy
• Define next-generation data analytics tooling
• Develop scalable data-system solutions for business needs and collaborate in a dynamic, consultative environment

• Evaluate, fine-tune, optimize, and deploy open-source models, LLMs, and foundational models
• Build agentic workflows and multi-agent architectures to automate developer and SDLC tasks
• Design, build, and deploy Model Context Protocol servers and tools
• Connect external APIs, internal enterprise tools, and data sources with AI coding agents
• Apply prompt design, context engineering, dynamic context injection, and hallucination mitigation strategies
• Evaluate, test, and integrate AI developer tools and IDE extensions into developer workflows
• Conduct rapid research and experimentation on emerging GenAI tools, preview features, and frameworks
• Design, build, and deploy AI solutions, agentic workflows, and MCP servers to improve developer productivity across Verizon

AI Platform Engineer

• Design, implement, and maintain automated performance testing frameworks integrated into CI/CD pipelines for cloud-native applications
• Define and track performance KPIs including response time, throughput, resource utilization, latency, and error rates
• Conduct load, stress, and scalability testing under multi-tenant and concurrent-user conditions
• Develop and manage performance dashboards and provide executive- and technical-level reporting
• Perform real-time monitoring, observability, and telemetry setup for application and infrastructure performance
• Collaborate with developers, QA, SREs, and operations teams to identify bottlenecks and recommend optimizations
• Validate critical workflows and use cases, including long-running queries, search operations, and API endpoints
• Capture and report CPU, memory, disk, network, and application-specific log metrics
• Contribute performance content to Monthly Status Reports and sprint-level documentation
• Align performance testing strategy with DevSecOps and MLOps processes
• Develop and execute formal performance test plans
• Compose and maintain comprehensive test plans and reports
• Verify and validate functionality against system requirements
• Support IaaS and PaaS cloud solution resources for secure sensitive workloads
• Design and implement server, network, and software configurations for cloud infrastructure and applications using DevOps principles
• Work as part of an agile development team supporting the Case Management Modernization Program for the Administrative Office of the US Courts
• Support modernization of a cloud-based case management system intended to replace CM/ECF across 204+ federal courts

Performance Tester / Platform Engineer

• Design, build, and implement enterprise infrastructure technology platforms and systems across cloud, network, database, storage, platform, computing, and middleware domains
• Apply automation, monitoring, and optimization techniques to ensure high availability and infrastructure performance
• Manage infrastructure engineering projects and processes aligned with organizational policies and regulatory requirements
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams and stakeholders to integrate new technologies and improve infrastructure standards and processes
• Troubleshoot and resolve complex technical issues affecting infrastructure performance and reliability
• Support compliance with technology strategies, standards, and governance to mitigate risks and ensure regulatory adherence
• Review and guide infrastructure designs, configurations, and procedures for operational consistency and knowledge sharing
• Provide technical guidance and direction to lower-level technical professionals
• Develop technical solutions through deep infrastructure analysis and lead infrastructure processes
• Build reusable automation frameworks, golden-path templates, workflows, and scalable automation solutions
• Integrate agentic AI, intelligent automation, event-driven architectures, and self-healing operational patterns
• Implement deep observability practices and use telemetry to improve platform reliability, security, compliance, and developer experience
• Operate and continuously enhance enterprise automation, CI/CD, and AI-enabled development platforms including GitLab SaaS, Ansible Automation Platform, JFrog Artifactory, SonarQube, and related DevSecOps tooling

Platform Engineer jobs in United States

Principal Kubernetes Platform Engineer

Staff Platform Engineer

Lead Platform Engineer

ServiceNow Platform Engineer