Remote Senior Platform Engineer – Cloud Automation

Banner Corp.; California; Hybrid; USD 117,000 - 170,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical, dental, vision

LTD, STD and life insurance

401k with match

Paid vacation and holidays

Job summary

Banner Bank is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, define, and evolve enterprise platforms, standards, and automation. You will shape architecture decisions that enable teams to build, deploy, and operate scalable and secure solutions across the organization.

We value expertise in Azure, Ansible, Kubernetes, Python, and security architecture. The role supports remote work within select states, with a strong focus on reliability, observability, and FinOps practices.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology, or a related field (Required). An equivalent combination of education and experience can be considered in lieu of a degree.
• 6+ years of experience in platform engineering, cloud architecture, or infrastructure automation at enterprise scale (Required)
• Experience in banking, financial services, or other regulated industries (Preferred)
• Advanced certifications such as Azure Solutions Architect Expert, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or RHCA (Preferred)

Responsibilities

• Architect platform “golden paths,” self-service provisioning frameworks, and reusable reference implementations.
• Lead platform architecture reviews, technology evaluations, vendor assessments, and toolchain investment decisions.
• Design and implement enterprise policy-as-code frameworks using Azure Policy and Ansible Automation Platform.
• Define RBAC models, network segmentation, secrets management, and zero-trust architectures.
• Develop Ansible content strategies, reusable module libraries, and workflow orchestration using Tower/AWX.
• Establish enterprise observability architecture, including telemetry standards, monitoring configuration, and alerting strategies.
• Define and govern SLO/SLI frameworks and error budgets across platforms.
• Lead incident response for platform-level issues, including postmortems and corrective actions.
• Drive reliability engineering practices such as chaos engineering and resilience validation.
• Architect infrastructure that supports AI/ML workloads including model serving, monitoring, and registry governance.
• Partner cross-functionally with system, cloud, network, and application teams to design scalable automation workflows.
• Define multi-region cloud strategies, including active/active and active/passive configurations and workload placement.
• Mentor fellow engineers and serve as a technical escalation point for complex platform challenges.

Skills

Azure

Ansible

Kubernetes

Python

Security architecture

Zero-trust

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Tower/AWX

OpenTelemetry

New Relic

Job description

Banner Bank is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, define, and evolve enterprise platforms, standards, and automation. You will shape architecture decisions that enable teams to build, deploy, and operate scalable and secure solutions across the organization.

We value expertise in Azure, Ansible, Kubernetes, Python, and security architecture. The role supports remote work within select states, with a strong focus on reliability, observability, and FinOps practices.