IT Senior Platform Engineer

Cianbro; Pittsfield (ME); Remote; USD 86,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Cianbro is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to shape the next generation of IT platform services and modernize a cloud-enabled enterprise. You will work across OCI, Azure, AD, and Microsoft 365 to improve reliability, security, and supportability while collaborating with security, identity, and architecture teams.

This hands-on role emphasizes building standards, automation through IaC, and scalable platform lifecycle management across on-prem and cloud migrations, ensuring high availability

Qualifications

• 5+ years in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, or related enterprise tech roles.
• Experience designing and supporting enterprise platform services across cloud and core infra.
• Experience planning modernization initiatives and migrating to cloud-based platforms.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate and operationalize new platform technologies with security and reliability in mind.

Responsibilities

• Plan, operate, and improve enterprise platform services (OCI, Azure, AD, Microsoft 365, Citrix, VDI/AVD, Windows Server, storage).
• Support migrations from on-prem to cloud-enabled, SaaS-based services.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management using IaC and CI/CD practices.
• Develop platform baselines, runbooks, dependency maps, and service documentation.

Skills

Platform engineering

Cloud infrastructure

IaC

CI/CD

Automation

Scripting

Security

Collaboration

Cloud modernization

Tools

OCI

Azure

AD infrastructure

Microsoft 365

Citrix

VDI/AVD

Windows Server

Job description

Location: Remote

Reports to: Director of IT Infrastructure & Operations

We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to help shape the next generation of Cianbro's IT platform services and evolve the enterprise platforms that power collaboration, communication, and business productivity. This role is ideal for a hands‑on engineer who enjoys improving complex environments. You will work across multiple platforms to establish standards, improve reliability, resilience, security, and supportability while modernizing a growing, cloud-enabled enterprise in partnership with infrastructure, security, identity, endpoint, application, and architecture teams.

The wage range for this position is $1,900.00 to $2,300.00 per week. Compensation will be determined based on knowledge and experience.

Job Responsibilities

• Plan, implement, operate, support, and continuously improve enterprise platform services, including OCI, Azure, AD infrastructure, Microsoft 365, Teams Phone, Citrix, virtualization, AVD/VDI, Windows Server, file services, storage, backup, and other shared service platforms.
• Support migrations from legacy on-premises virtualization, application delivery, voice, collaboration, and infrastructure platforms to modern cloud-enabled, SaaS-based, or managed platform services.
• Automate platform provisioning, configuration, maintenance, lifecycle management, monitoring, and operational support using scripting, configuration management, configuration-as-code, IaC, and continuous delivery practices that increase reliability, security, operational consistency, and reduce configuration drift.
• Develop and maintain platform baselines, configuration standards, provisioning templates, implementation patterns, lifecycle plans, operational runbooks, dependency maps, and service documentation.

Qualifications/Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, systems engineering, or related enterprise technology roles.
• Experience designing, implementing, administering, and supporting enterprise platform services, including cloud platforms, identity services, collaboration platforms, virtualization technologies, and core infrastructure services.
• Experience planning and executing platform modernization initiatives, including migration of infrastructure and services to cloud-based platforms and adoption of modern operational practices.
• Demonstrated ability to evaluate, implement, and operationalize new platform technologies while balancing security, reliability, scalability, and supportability requirements.
• Strong hands‑on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC), configuration management, and automation technologies, including template-based provisioning, configuration baselines, CI/CD pipelines, and automated platform lifecycle management.
• Working knowledge of Identity-centric Zero Trust principles, including least‑privilege access, privileged access management, conditional access, secure administrative access, segmentation, and policy‑driven access controls.
• Experience implementing security baselines, platform hardening standards, patching processes, and compliance requirements across enterprise platforms.
• Experience designing and supporting resilient platform services through monitoring, backup and recovery, disaster recovery, replication, high availability, capacity management, and operational excellence practices.
• Strong troubleshooting, documentation, communication, and cross‑functional collaboration skills, with the ability to independently manage complex technical issues and platform engineering initiatives.

Cianbro is an employee‑owned, tobacco‑free, equal opportunity employer, we do not discriminate based on marital status, race, color, creed, gender, sex, religion, national origin, gender identity, age, veteran status, union affiliation, physical or mental disability, citizenship status, sexual orientation, genetic information, or other legally protected status.