Staff Platform Engineer - Cloud & DB Automation

UKG; Lowell (MA); On-site; USD 130,000 - 186,000; Full time

Job summary

UKG is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to design, automate, operate, and improve critical database services across on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud environments.

You will lead infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and GitOps workflows, while mentoring engineers and collaborating with security, networking, and application teams to deliver reliable, scalable platform services.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, platform engineering, DevOps, SRE, or infrastructure engineering.
• Strong hands-on experience supporting production environments and mission-critical services.
• Deep knowledge of Linux administration, troubleshooting, system performance, networking fundamentals, and security practices.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes and containerized workloads.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate infrastructure platforms that deliver critical database services at scale.
• Develop and maintain infrastructure automation for provisioning, configuration, upgrades, migrations, and lifecycle management.
• Manage database services across hybrid environments, including on-premises infrastructure, OpenStack, Kubernetes, and public cloud platforms.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform and Terragrunt.
• Develop and manage Kubernetes deployments, Helm charts, operators, and platform integrations.
• Create and improve CI/CD and GitOps workflows using GitHub Actions and related automation tools.

Skills

Kubernetes

Linux

Terraform

Terragrunt

GitHub Actions

OpenStack

Cloud platforms

Python Bash Go

Education

Bachelor’s degree in CS/Engineering

Tools

Terraform

Terragrunt

GitHub Actions

Prometheus

Grafana

OpenStack

Job description

UKG is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to design, automate, operate, and improve critical database services across on-premises, private cloud, and public cloud environments.

You will lead infrastructure automation, CI/CD, and GitOps workflows, while mentoring engineers and collaborating with security, networking, and application teams to deliver reliable, scalable platform services.