Senior Platform Engineer: Cloud, Kubernetes & Automation

Colgate; Piscataway Township (NJ); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 155,000; Full time

Job summary

Colgate-Palmolive is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and modernize the internal platform using GCP and Kubernetes. Lead the platform strategy with the Open Source Program Office, build automated golden paths, and empower teams with self-service tools while driving secure, scalable cloud-native solutions.

You will guide architecture, DevSecOps collaboration, and centralized tooling, ensuring reliability and performance as the business scales globally.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in a Software Engineering or Platform Engineering role.
• Experience with cloud (GCP) and Kubernetes.
• Experience using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools like Terraform and CI/CD pipelines.

Responsibilities

• Strategic Leadership & Partnership: define and execute the long-term platform roadmap.
• Centralized Tooling Management: manage GitHub, Sentry, Sonarqube, Vault, Terraform and other platforms.
• Platform Modernization & Scaling: design and maintain scalable cloud resources in GCP.
• Architecture & DevSecOps Collaboration: set standards for secure, reliable, scalable solutions.
• Golden Paths & Self-Service: create standardized workflows and self-service options leveraging AI.
• Agentic Software & Platform Development: lead development of team-owned platforms and intelligent agents.
• Kubernetes Maintenance & Troubleshooting: manage Kubernetes clusters and incident response.
• Open Source Program Management: define internal/external open source strategy and processes.
• Security & Compliance: ensure security and industry standards compliance.
• Collaboration & Knowledge Sharing: document and train on platform usage.

Skills

Platform Engineering

Software Engineering

Open Source

Tools

GitHub

Sentry

Sonarqube

Hashicorp Vault

Terraform

Kubernetes

GCP

Job description

Colgate-Palmolive is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and modernize the internal platform using GCP and Kubernetes. Lead the platform strategy with the Open Source Program Office, build automated golden paths, and empower teams with self-service tools while driving secure, scalable cloud-native solutions.

You will guide architecture, DevSecOps collaboration, and centralized tooling, ensuring reliability and performance as the business scales globally.