Platform Reliability Engineer - Automation & Observability

corespecialtyinsurance; Cincinnati (OH); Hybrid; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Short-term disability

Long-term disability

401(k) matching

Employee Assistance Plan

Health Savings Account

Flexible Spending Account

Health Reimbursement Account

Wellness program

Job summary

Core Specialty is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain enterprise platforms that enable teams across the organization to deliver secure, efficient, and reliable software. The role focuses on developing and supporting shared platform capabilities that power software delivery, data integration, file transfer, observability, and analytics.

The Platform Engineering team owns the platforms, ensuring they remain secure, reliable, scalable, and easy to consume.

Qualifications

• Authorized to work in the U.S. without sponsorship.
• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or equivalent experience.
• Experience with cloud platforms, preferably Microsoft Azure.
• Experience with Infrastructure-as-Code tools such as Terraform.
• Experience with source control platforms and CI/CD pipelines.
• Knowledge of automation and scripting using PowerShell, Python, Bash, or similar languages.
• Knowledge of Power Platform.
• Understanding of modern software delivery and DevOps practices.
• Familiarity with monitoring, observability, and troubleshooting tools.
• Strong problem-solving and collaboration skills.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement highly available, fault-tolerant architectures using cloud-native services (microservices, containers, serverless).
• Define and operationalize SLOs, SLIs, and error budgets for critical applications and platforms.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) (Terraform) to ensure repeatable and compliant deployments.
• Develop automated remediation and self-healing capabilities to reduce MTTR and improve system resilience.
• Establish enterprise-level monitoring, logging, and observability frameworks (Datadog, Azure Monitor, CloudWatch, OpenTelemetry, Azure Application Insights).
• Drive cost optimization (FinOps) initiatives, including resource utilization tracking and rightsizing recommendations.
• Support DR/BCP strategy execution, including failover testing and regional isolation validation.
• Collaborate with application teams to embed reliability engineering practices into CI/CD pipelines.

Skills

Azure

DevOps

CI/CD

Scripting

PowerShell

Python

Bash

Observability

Collaboration

OpenTelemetry

Datadog

Azure Monitor

CloudWatch

OpenTelemetry

Application Insights

Power Platform

Education

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

Tools

Terraform

Datadog

Azure Monitor

CloudWatch

OpenTelemetry

Application Insights

Power Platform

Git / Source Control

CI/CD pipelines

Job description

Core Specialty is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain enterprise platforms that enable teams across the organization to deliver secure, efficient, and reliable software. The role focuses on developing and supporting shared platform capabilities that power software delivery, data integration, file transfer, observability, and analytics.

The Platform Engineering team owns the platforms, ensuring they remain secure, reliable, scalable, and easy to consume.