Tooling / Platform Engineer – Harness

Hudson IT and Manpower; Atlanta (GA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Hudson IT and Manpower in Atlanta, GA is seeking a senior platform engineer to own and govern the enterprise CI/CD and delivery tooling. You will lead architecture decisions for pipelines, security integration, and cost-aware cloud practices onsite from day one.

The role requires hands-on experience with Harness and multi-tool CI/CD stacks, alongside governance of API and cloud-native patterns. This is a 12+ months contract with onsite work from Day 1.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in software engineering or platform engineering with architecture leadership.
• Experience in payments/fintech or regulated transaction processing.
• Ownership of an enterprise CI/CD platform beyond usage.
• RBAC design, secrets management, and multi-team governance experience.
• Experience with Harness, GitLab, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions with Argo or Spinnaker at scale.
• Ability to influence technical direction and communicate trade-offs to executives.

Responsibilities

• Own the Harness platform, including architecture, governance, and vendor relationships.
• Define reusable CI/CD templates, shared libraries, and build-time targets.
• Define secure AI guidelines and governance for AI-generated code.
• Establish policy-as-code standards for pipeline governance.

Skills

Enterprise CI/CD ownership

RBAC design

Policy-as-code

Kubernetes in production

Architecture leadership

Tools

Harness

GitLab

Azure DevOps

GitHub Actions

Argo

Spinnaker

Jenkins

Job description

1. Software Delivery Platform Ownership – Harness

• Own the Harness platform as the client’s enterprise delivery platform, including architecture, configuration standards, RBAC, governance model, module adoption roadmap, and vendor relationship.
• CI (Continuous Integration): Establish reusable pipeline templates, shared libraries, build caching, parallelization standards, and CI patterns to maintain build times within target as the organization scales.
• CD (Continuous Delivery): Define deployment strategies, including progressive delivery, canary, and blue-green deployments; GitOps workflows; environment and artifact promotion paths; approval gates; and change-control evidence for regulated payment workloads.
• STO (Security Testing Orchestration): Integrate SAST, DAST, SCA, container, and secrets scanning across pipelines. Collaborate with AppSec to define severity thresholds, blocking versus advisory policies, exemption workflows, and remediation SLAs.
• SEI (Software Engineering Insights): Define engineering metrics, including DORA, flow, lead time, and review latency. Establish appropriate guardrails to ensure metrics identify system-level constraints rather than evaluate individual engineers.
• CCM (Cloud Cost Management): Implement cloud cost visibility, budgets, anomaly detection, non-production autostopping, and showback or chargeback models. Connect architecture decisions to unit economics and cost optimization.
• Establish policy-as-code standards to ensure pipeline governance is versioned, reviewable, and auditable rather than manually configured through a UI.

2. SDLC Toolchain Ownership

• Own the software delivery toolchain, including source control, issue tracking, artifact management, static analysis, and test infrastructure.
• Manage integration architecture, entitlements, license management, upgrade and migration planning, and consolidation of redundant tools.
• Define and maintain golden paths: documented, supported, and standardized workflows that enable teams to move from code commit to production, with deviations treated as explicit decisions.

3. AI in the Engineering Workflow

• Establish guidelines for using AI tools in software design, code generation, testing, and documentation.
• Define controls for safe AI adoption, including evaluation criteria, human review requirements, context and data-handling standards, and governance for AI-generated code entering production.
• Location: Atlanta, GA (Day 1 Onsite)
• Duration: 12+ Months Contract
• Engagement Type: Contract
• Work Arrangement: Onsite from Day 1

Required Qualifications

• 10+ years of experience in software engineering, solution architecture, or platform engineering, including senior architecture leadership for distributed, high-availability systems.
• Experience in payments, fintech, merchant services, or a comparably regulated transaction-processing domain.
• Proven ownership of an enterprise CI/CD platform, beyond simply using one.
• Strong experience with pipeline-as-code, templating and reuse at scale, RBAC design, secrets management, and multi-team governance.
• Experience with Harness, GitLab, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions with Argo or Spinnaker, or Jenkins operated at scale.
• Experience integrating security scanning into delivery pipelines and establishing policy gates that engineering teams can effectively adopt.
• Working knowledge of engineering delivery metrics, including DORA or equivalent, their limitations, and potential misuse.
• Strong expertise in API and integration architecture, including REST, asynchronous messaging, event-driven patterns, and API lifecycle governance.
• Experience with cloud-native architecture and Kubernetes in production environments.
• Demonstrated ability to influence technical direction across teams without direct reporting authority and communicate technical trade-offs to executive stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

• Hands-on experience with multiple Harness modules, particularly STO, SEI, or CCM.
• Experience with policy-as-code frameworks such as OPA/Rego or equivalent.
• Experience owning cloud cost management or FinOps practices, including showback or chargeback implementation.
• Experience applying generative AI or agentic development patterns to real engineering workflows, including governance.
• Architecture leadership for large-scale API ecosystems, partner platforms, or merchant-facing onboarding.
• Experience with PCI DSS-aligned controls, IAM, or fraud/risk integration.
• Hands-on development experience with .NET, Java, Go, or Node.js.
• Experience with GitHub or Atlassian toolchains.