Platform Engineer

Apexon; St. Louis (MO); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Apexon is seeking an experienced platform engineer to productize and operate a proxy platform across development, test, certification, and production environments.

You will build repeatable deployment and recovery processes, integrate with CI/CD controls, and implement robust observability. The role emphasizes availability, incident response, and cross-functional collaboration with network, automation, testing, and BizOps teams.

Qualifications

• Deep Linux administration and troubleshooting.
• Enterprise platform engineering, configuration management, and release engineering.
• Observability and production-support practices.
• Scripting and automation, preferably Python or shell.
• Experience supporting highly available, mission-critical systems.

Responsibilities

• Build repeatable installation, packaging, configuration, deployment, upgrade, rollback, and recovery processes.
• Integrate the platform into enterprise CI/CD and release-management controls.
• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, health checks, dashboards, and capacity controls.
• Support environment readiness, vulnerability remediation, incident response, and root-cause analysis.
• Partner with network, software, automation, testing, and BizOps teams on production readiness.
• Document operational procedures and support handoff.

Skills

Linux administration

Platform engineering

Observability/monitoring

Scripting/automation

Production support

Tools

Splunk

Dynatrace

Prometheus

Grafana

Job description

Mission:

Productize and operate the proxy platform across development, test, certification, and production environments.

Core responsibilities

• Build repeatable installation, packaging, configuration, deployment, upgrade, rollback, and recovery processes.


• Integrate the platform into enterprise CI/CD and release-management controls.


• Implement monitoring, logging, alerting, health checks, dashboards, and capacity controls.


• Support environment readiness, vulnerability remediation, incident response, and root-cause analysis.


• Partner with network, software, automation, testing, and BizOps teams on production readiness.


• Document operational procedures and support handoff.

Required skills

• Deep Linux administration and troubleshooting.


• Enterprise platform engineering, configuration management, and release engineering.


• Observability and production-support practices.


• Scripting and automation, preferably Python or shell.


• Experience supporting highly available, mission-critical systems.

Preferred experience

• Splunk, Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, or equivalent tooling.


• Network-service or edge-platform operations.


• Security scanning, patching, certificate management, and controlled production deployment.