Platform Reliability Engineer

Core Specialty; Cincinnati, Northern (OH, KY); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability insurance

401(k) match

Employee Assistance Plan

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Account

Health Reimbursement Account

Wellness program

Hybrid work arrangement

Job summary

Core Specialty in Cincinnati, OH is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain enterprise platforms that enable teams to deploy securely, efficiently, and consistently. You will create automation, self-service capabilities, and reusable patterns to improve productivity and reduce complexity for platform consumers.

The role concentrates on cloud-native architectures (Azure), Terraform-based IaC, SLO/SLI definitions, and end-to-end reliability.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in CS/IT/Engineering or equivalent.
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Azure.
• Terraform for IaC and cloud deployments.
• CI/CD pipelines and source control experience.
• Automation with PowerShell, Python, or Bash.
• Knowledge of Power Platform.
• Understanding of DevOps and modern software delivery.
• Familiarity with monitoring, observability, and troubleshooting tools.
• Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement highly available, fault-tolerant cloud-native architectures.
• Define and operationalize SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets.
• Build and maintain IaC (Terraform) for repeatable deployments.
• Develop automated remediation and self-healing capabilities.
• Establish enterprise monitoring/logging/observability (Datadog, Azure Monitor, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Application Insights).
• Drive FinOps initiatives and rightsizing recommendations.
• Support DR/BCP strategy execution including failover testing.
• Collaborate with application teams to embed reliability into CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Azure cloud

Terraform

CI/CD pipelines

Automation scripting

Power Platform

Observability tools

Collaboration skills

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience

Tools

Git

Terraform

Job description

Core Specialty in Cincinnati, OH is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain enterprise platforms that enable teams to deploy securely, efficiently, and consistently. You will create automation, self-service capabilities, and reusable patterns to improve productivity and reduce complexity for platform consumers.

The role concentrates on cloud-native architectures (Azure), Terraform-based IaC, SLO/SLI definitions, and end-to-end reliability.