Senior Platform Engineer - DevOps

100 Raymond James & Associates, Inc.; Saint Petersburg (FL); Hybrid; USD 110,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Life insurance

Disability benefits

Retirement savings

Paid time off

Parental leave

Job summary

Raymond James is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to design, support, and enhance enterprise development platforms enabling efficient software delivery, automation, security, and scalability. The role is hybrid, requiring in-office presence at least three days a week with focus on GitHub Enterprise, Jenkins, JFrog, Azure DevOps, Jira, and SonarQube.

You will lead upgrades, migrations, and tool consolidations while advancing CI/CD practices, security controls, and developer productivity

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or related experience.
• Hands-on experience with enterprise development platforms (GitHub Enterprise, Jenkins, JFrog, Azure DevOps, Jira, SonarQube).
• Strong knowledge of Git, CI/CD pipelines, release automation, and IaC tools like Terraform or Ansible.

Responsibilities

• Maintain and optimize enterprise development platforms for reliability, security, and scalability.
• Design and support CI/CD capabilities to improve delivery efficiency and developer experience.
• Lead platform upgrades, migrations, and tool consolidations with minimal disruption.
• Drive automation to improve reliability, scalability, and developer productivity.
• Collaborate with dev, infra, and security teams on best practices for source control and governance.
• Implement secure software delivery practices, including code scanning and dependency management.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across platforms and tooling.
• Contribute to platform standards and DevOps improvements.

Skills

Platform Engineering

DevOps

SRE

CI/CD

Git/GitHub

Terraform/Ansible

Scripting

Security practices

Education

HS Diploma

Tools

GitHub Enterprise

Jenkins

JFrog

Azure DevOps

Jira

SonarQube

Job description

Job Description Summary

Design, support, and enhance enterprise development platforms that enable efficient software delivery, automation, security, and scalability. This role partners across engineering, infrastructure, and security teams to improve platform reliability, streamline developer workflows, and advance modern DevOps practices.

Job Description

This role is a hybrid workstyle: with the associate expected to work from a Raymond James office location at least three days per week, including either Monday or Friday. Please note: This role is not eligible for Work Visa sponsorship, either currently or in the future.

Technical Skills & Experience: 5+ years of Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Infrastructure Engineering, or related experience. Hands-on experience administering and supporting enterprise development platforms such as GitHub Enterprise, Jenkins, JFrog (Artifactory/Xray), Azure DevOps, Jira, SonarQube, or similar tools. Strong knowledge of Git, source control management, artifact repositories, release automation, CI/CD pipelines, and software delivery best practices. Experience leading platform upgrades, integrations, migrations, and tool consolidations, including the movement of repositories, pipelines, configurations, and users between platforms. Experience with Linux, Windows, Docker, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Ansible. Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, PowerShell, Bash, Groovy, or similar languages. Experience implementing secure development and deployment practices, platform governance, monitoring, observability, and root cause analysis.

Key Responsibilities

• Administer, maintain, and optimize enterprise development platforms and services, ensuring reliability, performance, security, and scalability across the software delivery ecosystem.
• Design, implement, and support CI/CD capabilities that improve software delivery efficiency and developer experience.
• Lead platform upgrade, integration, migration, and modernization initiatives while minimizing disruption to development teams and business operations.
• Drive automation initiatives that improve reliability, scalability, operational efficiency, and developer productivity.
• Partner with development, infrastructure, and security teams to establish best practices for source control, CI/CD, artifact management, workflow automation, and platform governance.
• Implement secure software delivery practices, including code scanning, dependency management, secrets management, and compliance controls.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across development platforms, infrastructure, automation workflows, and developer tooling.
• Contribute to platform standards, architecture decisions, and continuous improvement initiatives that advance enterprise DevOps capabilities.

Education

High School (HS) (Required)

Work Experience

General Experience - 3 to 6 years

Certifications

Travel Less than 25%

Workstyle

Hybrid

The total compensation for this position includes base salary or wages, and may include components such as additional compensation (cash or equity), discretionary bonuses, or commissions. This position is eligible for a benefits package that may include medical, dental, and vision; life insurance; critical illness insurance and accident insurance; disability benefits; retirement savings; paid time off (including vacation, holidays, and sick leave); and parental leave. Eligibility for benefits and specific offerings may vary based on position and employment status. To view more details of the benefits offered, visit Myrjbenefits.com.

At Raymond James our associates use five guiding behaviors (Develop, Collaborate, Decide, Deliver, Improve) to deliver on the firm's core values of client-first, integrity, independence and a conservative, long-term view. We expect our associates at all levels to:

• Grow professionally and inspire others to do the same
• Work with and through others to achieve desired outcomes
• Make prompt, pragmatic choices and act with the client in mind
• Take ownership and hold themselves and others accountable for delivering results that matter
• Contribute to the continuous evolution of the firm

At Raymond James – as part of our people-first culture, we honor, value, and respect the uniqueness, experiences, and backgrounds of all of our Associates. When associates bring their best authentic selves, our organization, clients, and communities thrive. The Company is an equal opportunity employer and makes all employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs. #LI-TC1

Raymond James is a diversified financial services company providing wealth management, capital markets, asset management, banking and other services to individuals, corporations and municipalities. Founded in 1962 in St. Petersburg, Florida, rather than on Wall Street, we have always embraced being a different kind of financial services firm. Today, Raymond James has locations and subsidiaries across the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Germany, and is listed on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol RJF. Thanks for your interest in working with Raymond James. While we might not have the perfect role for you today, we'd love to keep in touch. Join our Talent Network to stay up to date on career opportunities that may be a good fit for you. Our business is deeply focused on people and their financial well-being. We're committed to helping individuals, corporations and institutions achieve their goals, while also supporting successful professionals and helping our communities prosper. We believe doing well and doing good aren't mutually exclusive. As an established but ever-evolving company, you can start – or continue – growing your career here. We invest in you with wide-ranging benefits and the support of leaders and colleagues who care. From development opportunities and enriching networking groups to prioritizing diversity, inclusion and the power of different perspectives, Raymond James is where good people grow. Our people-first culture is outlined in our Culture Blueprint. Check it out to see why many choose to work at Raymond James – and why they stay.