Senior Platform Engineer: CI/CD, Kubernetes & Azure Platform

Calista Corporation; Huntsville (AL); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Calista Corporation seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate the delivery platform used across our enterprise IT organization. You will shape GitLab-driven CI/CD templates, security controls, and deployment automation for containerized microservices.

You will collaborate with developers and infra engineers, defining how GitLab is structured across multi-cloud environments with distinct compliance boundaries, and bring remaining manual processes under code and pipelines.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years in DevOps/platform engineering or infrastructure.
• Hands-on GitLab CI/CD experience with reusable templates.

Responsibilities

• Install, upgrade, and maintain self-managed GitLab Ultimate and RHEL servers.
• Own shared CI/CD template library and environment promotion rules.
• Administer AKS and Azure managed services across multiple cloud environments.
• Automate security scanning, tests, and policy-as-code for pipelines and deployments.

Skills

GitLab CI/CD

Kubernetes

Azure

Terraform/OpenTofu/Bicep

Education

Bachelor's degree in Computer Science

Tools

GitLab Self-Managed

Terraform

OpenTofu

Bicep

AKS

Docker

Job description

Calista Corporation seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate the delivery platform used across our enterprise IT organization. You will shape GitLab-driven CI/CD templates, security controls, and deployment automation for containerized microservices.

You will collaborate with developers and infra engineers, defining how GitLab is structured across multi-cloud environments with distinct compliance boundaries, and bring remaining manual processes under code and pipelines.