Senior Platform Engineer - Build Internal DevOps Platform

CHAMP; Cleveland (OH); On-site; USD 100,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Annual Bonus Potential

Unlimited PTO

401K with immediate vesting

Subsidized Lunches at our Cleveland HQ

Newly Renovated Office Space

Job summary

CHAMP, located in Cleveland, redefines technology for Motor Vehicle Agencies with cloud-based software enhancing efficiency, security, and interoperability. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will build internal platforms and shared capabilities, improve CI/CD pipelines, and shape how CHAMP builds, tests, releases, and operates software handling sensitive government data.

You will lead design discussions, mentor engineers, and collaborate across engineering, quality, security, cloud, and product

Qualifications

• 5+ years in platform engineering, DevOps, or related role.
• Experience designing maintenance of CI/CD pipelines and tooling.
• Hands-on with AWS, Terraform, GitHub; Java or modern language.
• Experience with cloud security and least-privilege practices.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement internal platform features, developer tools, and self-service capabilities.
• Improve CI/CD pipelines and reusable GitHub Actions workflows.
• Implement reusable tools and automated controls for testing, code quality, security, observability, and release readiness that integrate into delivery workflows.
• Create and maintain shared libraries, components, templates, SDKs, and reference implementations.
• Build consistent development and deployment patterns that reduce repetitive work across teams.
• Improve release capabilities through feature flags, progressive delivery, automated rollback, and zero-downtime deployment practices.
• Build and maintain secure, repeatable AWS infrastructure using Terraform.
• Support shared cloud-native technologies and message-driven systems, including RabbitMQ.
• Use engineering metrics and developer feedback to identify and prioritize improvements.
• Create technical documentation and implementation guidance.
• Lead technical design discussions and mentor other engineers on platform engineering and DevOps practices.

Skills

CI/CD pipelines

DevOps

Systems design

Mentoring engineers

Communication

Tools

AWS

Terraform

GitHub

GitHub Actions

Java

Job description

CHAMP, located in Cleveland, redefines technology for Motor Vehicle Agencies with cloud-based software enhancing efficiency, security, and interoperability. As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will build internal platforms and shared capabilities, improve CI/CD pipelines, and shape how CHAMP builds, tests, releases, and operates software handling sensitive government data.

You will lead design discussions, mentor engineers, and collaborate across engineering, quality, security, cloud, and product