Senior Platform Engineer: Cloud, Data & Automation

Highbrow LLC; Frisco (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Highbrow LLC is seeking a Sr Platform Engineer in Frisco, TX to design and evolve hybrid cloud infrastructure and large-scale distributed systems. You will lead architecture efforts across microservices, event-driven integrations, and containerized workloads.

You will define IaC standards, observability, and platform automation while guiding DML operations across Postgres, Oracle, and Cassandra. Strong emphasis on security, reliability, and mentorship in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Expert-level knowledge of hybrid and multi-cloud infrastructure (AWS, Azure, on-prem).
• Extensive experience architecting large-scale distributed systems for performance, resilience, and scalability.
• Deep expertise with DML across Postgres, Oracle, and Cassandra databases.

Responsibilities

• Architect and evolve hybrid and cloud platform architecture for high performance, resiliency, and scalability.
• Define platform modernization and migration strategies aligned with cloud transformation goals.
• Influence architecture across teams to drive microservices, event-driven integrations, and containerized workloads.
• Establish standards for IaC, observability, and platform automation for secure, reliable delivery.
• Define DML strategy across Postgres, Oracle, Cassandra; oversee DML logic, queries, and data pipelines.
• Architect Kafka-based event streaming systems for high throughput and real-time data movement.
• Drive event-driven design patterns for asynchronous communication and decoupled services.
• Define distributed caching strategies (Redis, Memcached) to reduce latency and improve throughput.
• Establish data access best practices balancing performance and reliability.
• Lead automation initiatives using Terraform, Ansible or similar frameworks for repeatable provisioning.
• Oversee CI/CD integration of data operations with robust testing and governance.
• Develop self-service frameworks to improve developer autonomy.

Skills

Hybrid & multi-cloud

Distributed systems

DML & databases

Kafka & event streaming

Caching

IaC

Scripting

Observability

Cloud security

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

CloudFormation

Kafka

PostgreSQL

Oracle

Cassandra

Redis

Memcached

Job description

Highbrow LLC is seeking a Sr Platform Engineer in Frisco, TX to design and evolve hybrid cloud infrastructure and large-scale distributed systems. You will lead architecture efforts across microservices, event-driven integrations, and containerized workloads.

You will define IaC standards, observability, and platform automation while guiding DML operations across Postgres, Oracle, and Cassandra. Strong emphasis on security, reliability, and mentorship in a fast-paced environment.