Senior GCP Platform Engineer

HTC Global Services; Dearborn (MI); On-site; USD 110,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

HTC Global Services in Michigan seeks a Platform Engineering Engineer to design and maintain reusable software components and platform infrastructure that boost developer productivity and automate application development.

You will collaborate with enterprise architects and software teams, build IaC and CI/CD pipelines, ensure security and monitoring, and evaluate cloud and container technologies to deliver scalable, secure solutions.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field.
• 6+ years of IT experience.
• 4+ years of software development experience.
• Proficiency in at least one programming language or experience with two languages.
• Experience with PostgreSQL.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure.
• Experience using Jenkins.

Responsibilities

• Design platform infrastructure and tools with architects and engineering teams.
• Implement and manage infrastructure upgrades, security patches, and performance improvements.
• Evaluate cloud platforms and containerization to create reusable solutions.
• Develop and maintain IaC and CI/CD to automate provisioning and configuration.
• Implement monitoring, performance optimization, and scalability practices using QoS and SLA metrics.
• Incorporate security, identity management, encryption, logging, backup, and DR into platform infrastructure.
• Integrate enterprise-configurations into deployment pipelines ensuring standards.
• Gather feedback from developers and service providers to improve the platform.

Skills

Programming languages

DevOps practices

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

PostgreSQL

Jenkins

Cloud platforms (GCP/AWS/Azure)

Infrastructure as Code

Job description

Overview We are seeking a Platform Engineering Engineer to develop and maintain reusable software components that support engineering teams and improve developer productivity. This role focuses on designing, implementing, integrating, and maintaining platform infrastructure and software solutions that enable scalable, secure, and automated application development.

Job Title

Platform Engineering Engineer

Overview

We are seeking a Platform Engineering Engineer to develop and maintain reusable software components that support engineering teams and improve developer productivity. This role focuses on designing, implementing, integrating, and maintaining platform infrastructure and software solutions that enable scalable, secure, and automated application development.

Key Responsibilities

• Design platform infrastructure and tools in collaboration with enterprise architects and software engineering teams.
• Implement and manage infrastructure supporting platform tools, including upgrades, security patches, and performance improvements.
• Evaluate cloud platforms, containerization technologies, and infrastructure configurations to create reusable solutions for application teams.
• Develop and maintain Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and utilize CI/CD processes to automate infrastructure provisioning, configuration, and management.
• Implement monitoring, performance optimization, and scalability best practices using QoS and SLA metrics.
• Incorporate security, identity management, access control, encryption, logging, backup, and disaster recovery into platform infrastructure.
• Integrate enterprise-managed software configurations into deployment pipelines to ensure adherence to approved security, networking, monitoring, and performance standards.
• Gather feedback from developers and service providers to continuously improve the platform.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree.
• 6+ years of IT experience.
• 4+ years of software development experience.
• Practical experience in two programming languages or advanced proficiency in one programming language.
• Experience with PostgreSQL.
• Experience with cloud infrastructure.
• Experience using Jenkins.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
• Experience with GCP Cloud Run.
• Experience with BigQuery.
• Experience with Python.
• Experience with GCP services including BigQuery, Cloud Run, IAM, Dataflow, Pub/Sub, and Cloud Build.
• Ability to work onsite four days per week.