Senior Platform Engineer - Reliability, CI/CD, Automation

Heitmeyer Consulting; Memphis (TN); On-site; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Heitmeyer Consulting seeks a Senior Wires Platform Engineer to support Unix-based enterprise applications and evolve CI/CD, automation, and production support across the full software delivery lifecycle.

You will own configuration and reliability for critical systems on RHEL, collaborate across technology and risk, and lead incident response and performance tuning to ensure high availability.

Qualifications

• 8+ years supporting high-availability Unix/Linux production systems (RHEL/AIX/Solaris).
• Proficiency with CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD) and Git-based workflows.
• Strong scripting/automation: Bash and Python; experience with Ansible (or Puppet/Chef).
• Experience with relational databases (Oracle, PostgreSQL, SQL Server) and SQL tuning.
• Experience with messaging middleware (IBM MQ; Kafka/RabbitMQ a plus).
• Solid networking knowledge: DNS, load balancing, TLS/PKI, certificates.
• Observability tooling experience (Splunk/ELK, Prometheus/Grafana, Dynatrace) with alerting.
• Production support including on-call, incident/problem management.

Responsibilities

• Own platform reliability for critical apps on RHEL with 99.9%+ availability.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and release automation (Jenkins, GitLab).
• Automate deployment and configuration using Bash, Python, and Ansible/Puppet/Chef.
• Lead incident response: triage, root cause analysis, remediation, and post-incident learning.
• Implement observability with logs, metrics, traces; create dashboards and alerts.
• Performance engineering: capacity planning, tuning OS, JVM, MQ, DB connections.
• Manage security posture: patching, certificate/key management, hardening.
• Collaborate with BA, QA, devs, and release managers across the SDLC.
• Review designs for scalability, reliability, and risk controls.
• Create runbooks and SOPs; mentor juniors and lead design sessions.
• Participate in on-call rotation and change/release management.

Skills

Unix/Linux admin

CI/CD tooling

Bash scripting

Python scripting

SQL basics

Networking basics

Observability basics

On-call/production support

Tools

Jenkins

GitLab CI/CD

Ansible

Puppet/Chef

Oracle

PostgreSQL

SQL Server

Splunk

ELK

Prometheus

Grafana

Dynatrace

Job description

Heitmeyer Consulting seeks a Senior Wires Platform Engineer to support Unix-based enterprise applications and evolve CI/CD, automation, and production support across the full software delivery lifecycle.

You will own configuration and reliability for critical systems on RHEL, collaborate across technology and risk, and lead incident response and performance tuning to ensure high availability.