Platform Engineer

Smartsearchonline; Dearborn, Northern (MI, KY); Hybrid; USD 55,000 - 91,000; Full time

Job summary

Stefanini Group in Dearborn, MI is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain reusable software components that empower product developers across the organization. You will shape platform infrastructure, automate provisioning, and advance cloud services while ensuring security and reliability.

The role emphasizes collaboration with architects and engineering teams, deploying IaC and CI/CD, monitoring performance, and integrating security and disaster recovery practices for

Qualifications

• 6+ years of IT experience, 4+ years of development experience.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with enterprise architects, software architects, and software engineering teams to design platform infrastructure and tools, including servers, networks, storage, databases, and cloud services.
• Implement and manage platform infrastructure, ensuring upgrades, security patches, and performance improvements are regularly completed.
• Evaluate cloud providers, containerization solutions, and other complex technologies; understand available configurations and create reusable abstractions for application teams.
• Write and execute automated Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scripts and use CI/CD processes to improve the consistency, traceability, and repeatability of provisioning, configuration, and infrastructure management.
• Integrate performance and monitoring best practices, including QoS and SLA metrics, to enable platform applications and managed services to scale automatically with demand.
• Incorporate security and disaster recovery best practices, including access control, identity management, logging and monitoring, public and private network configurations, data encryption, storage backups, and disaster recovery.
• Facilitate the integration of enterprise-managed software configurations into application-team deployment pipelines, helping ensure approved practices for security, networking, logging and monitoring, performance, and scale.
• Gather and advocate for feedback from service providers and developers to help the platform evolve and meet their needs.

Skills

Network Engineering

Endpoint Security

Cloud Infrastructure

Google Cloud Platform

Cyber Security

Java

Python

Education

Bachelor's degree

Job description

Job Details

Platform Engineer Dearborn, MI

Posted: 10/1/2026

Job Category: Information Technology

Position Type: Contract

Duration: Long Term

Remaining Positions: 1

We are looking for Platform Engineer who will develop and maintain reusable software components that support product developers across the organization. They design, implement, integrate, and maintain the infrastructure and software applications that enable developer productivity and self-service.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with enterprise architects, software architects, and software engineering teams to design platform infrastructure and tools, including servers, networks, storage, databases, and cloud services.
• Implement and manage platform infrastructure, ensuring upgrades, security patches, and performance improvements are regularly completed.
• Evaluate cloud providers, containerization solutions, and other complex technologies; understand available configurations and create reusable abstractions for application teams.
• Write and execute automated Infrastructure as Code (IaC) scripts and use CI/CD processes to improve the consistency, traceability, and repeatability of provisioning, configuration, and infrastructure management.
• Integrate performance and monitoring best practices, including QoS and SLA metrics, to enable platform applications and managed services to scale automatically with demand.
• Incorporate security and disaster recovery best practices, including access control, identity management, logging and monitoring, public and private network configurations, data encryption, storage backups, and disaster recovery.
• Facilitate the integration of enterprise-managed software configurations into application-team deployment pipelines, helping ensure approved practices for security, networking, logging and monitoring, performance, and scale.
• Gather and advocate for feedback from service providers and developers to help the platform evolve and meet their needs.

Required Skills

• Network Engineering, Endpoint Security, Cloud Infrastructure, Google Cloud Platform, Cyber Security, Java, Python

Experience Required

• 6+ years of IT experience, 4+ years of development experience

Experience Preferred

• Runbook documentation and architecture decision records (ADRs)
• Cross-team collaboration with SRE, security, and application development teams
• Capacity forecasting and cost optimization (FinOps)

Education Required

• Bachelor's degree

About Stefanini Group

The Stefanini Group is a global provider of offshore, onshore and near shore outsourcing, IT digital consulting, systems integration, application, and strategic staffing services to Fortune 1000 enterprises around the world. Our presence is in countries like the Americas, Europe, Africa, and Asia, and more than four hundred clients across a broad spectrum of markets, including financial services, manufacturing, telecommunications, chemical services, technology, public sector, and utilities. Stefanini is a CMM level 5, IT consulting company with a global presence. We are a CMM Level 5 company.

Pay Range

$ 61.00 - $ 66.00

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