Senior Platform Engineer - Data & Automation

Jobtailor; Alabama; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor is seeking a senior Platform Engineer in Alabama to lead platform engineering efforts, oversee the team, and align solutions with customer needs. You will design, build, and maintain scalable systems that meet business goals.

You will drive CI/CD practices, work with Kubernetes/OpenShift deployments, and collaborate with clients to translate requirements into reliable, secure software and hardware components.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of industry-relevant experience.
• Bachelor's degree required.
• Experience deploying or running applications on Red Hat OpenShift.
• Strong knowledge of Kubernetes for application deployments.
• Experience with Git and modern development workflows.
• Experience with Helm or templated Kubernetes/OpenShift deployments.

Responsibilities

• Provide expertise on platform engineering, while overseeing the team's effort and meeting customer needs.
• Uses technical knowledge and industry experience to design, build and maintain technology solutions.
• Develop software components and hardware for complex projects; aligns these with business strategies and objectives.
• Provide expertise on best practices, standards, engineering approaches and complex technical resolutions for processes.
• Place emphasis on quality improvement efforts; ensures that deliverables are secure, scalable and reliable through estimation and correction.
• Communicate with customers and integrate their needs with development, to meet business objectives.

Skills

5+ years experience

Strong troubleshooting

Customer-focused leadership

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Red Hat OpenShift

Kubernetes

Git

Helm

Spark

Trino

Airflow

Iceberg

Job description

Jobtailor is seeking a senior Platform Engineer in Alabama to lead platform engineering efforts, oversee the team, and align solutions with customer needs. You will design, build, and maintain scalable systems that meet business goals.

You will drive CI/CD practices, work with Kubernetes/OpenShift deployments, and collaborate with clients to translate requirements into reliable, secure software and hardware components.