Title: Sr. Platform Engineer
Employment Type: Contract
Term: 9 Months
Location: Washington DC
Interview type: Webcam
Work location : Onsite
Job Summary:
The Senior Platform Engineer is responsible for designing building and maintaining automation frameworks selfservice platforms and infrastructureascode (IaC) solutions that enable efficient and scalable IT operations. This role focuses on automation observability infrastructure optimization and DevOps practices ensuring high availability reliability and performance of enterprise IT services.
The Senior Platform Engineer will collaborate with Platform Operations Cloud Security and Development teams to create reusable platform solutions that improve service delivery and reduce manual operational burdens.
Required Qualifications & Skills:
Technical Skills
Automation & IaC: Terraform Ansible Pulumi CloudFormation
Cloud Platforms: AWS Azure Google Cloud Platform (GCP)
CI/CD & DevOps: Jenkins GitHub Actions GitLab CI ArgoCD
Observability & Monitoring: Prometheus Grafana ELK Stack Splunk
Scripting & Development: Python PowerShell Bash YAML JSON
Networking & Security: Zero Trust Firewalls Load Balancers API Gateways
Containerization & Orchestration: Kubernetes Docker Helm
Soft Skills
- Strong problemsolving abilities and analytical thinking.
- Ability to work in crossfunctional teams and collaborate effectively.
- Excellent documentation skills for knowledge sharing and process standardization.
- Ability to mentor junior engineers and advocate for best practices.
Preferred Certifications
- AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Professional
- Microsoft Certified: Azure DevOps Engineer Expert
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA)
- ServiceNow Certification and Experience