Senior Platform Engineer: Scalable Infra & Cloud Architecture

SM Advantage; Pasay; On-site; PHP 900,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Job summary

SM Advantage in Metro Manila, Pasay, is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect to assess requirements and design scalable compute, storage, memory, and network solutions across the IT environment. You will own server management and platform architecture, ensuring reliability and performance, while collaborating with admins, developers, and stakeholders to document SOPs and drive capacity planning.

The role also includes guiding monitoring functions, analyzing server and database logs,

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, or a related field.
• Proven experience in infrastructure architecture, server management, or platform engineering
• Experience with capacity planning and forecasting for compute, storage, and memory resources
• Strong background in on-prem and AWS Cloud server infrastructure and system architecture design
• Ability to assess business/technical requirements and translate them into concrete infrastructure solutions
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to read and analyze server and database logs to investigate issues and assess capacity improvements based on volume trends and recurring issues
• Familiarity with monitoring tools and platforms, and experience managing or guiding a monitoring function
• Strong documentation skills, with the ability to clearly record findings, processes, and architectural decisions
• Experience leading or managing a technical team (e.g., monitoring, operations) is a plus

Responsibilities

• Assess infrastructure requirements and design solutions covering compute, storage, memory, and network capacity based on current and forecasted demand
• Own server management and platform architecture across the department's IT environment, ensuring scalability, reliability, and performance
• Conduct database analysis to inform architectural decisions and capacity planning (storage growth, query performance, data volume trends)
• Lead and oversee the service monitoring team, setting standards for platform performance monitoring, alerting, and incident response
• Partner with system administrators, developers, and business stakeholders to evaluate infrastructure improvements and maintain architectural documentation and SOPs

Skills

Infrastructure architecture

Server management

Platform engineering

Capacity planning

AWS Cloud

Monitoring and alerting

Documentation

Team leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree in IT/Computer Science or related field

Tools

AWS Cloud Platform

Monitoring tools

Job description

SM Advantage in Metro Manila, Pasay, is seeking an experienced Infrastructure Architect to assess requirements and design scalable compute, storage, memory, and network solutions across the IT environment. You will own server management and platform architecture, ensuring reliability and performance, while collaborating with admins, developers, and stakeholders to document SOPs and drive capacity planning.

The role also includes guiding monitoring functions, analyzing server and database logs,