Overview As a senior systems engineer, you will shape the reliability, security, and scalability of enterprise platforms and cloud services. You'll lead platform strategy and governance while collaborating with engineering, cybersecurity, and operations to enable resilient, scalable solutions. You drive automation, observability, and incident readiness across cloud and on prem environments. This role offers influence over modernization roadmaps and cross functional initiatives with a clear impact on enterprise performance.
Compensation / Benefits- Medical/Dental/Vision coverage
- 401(k) plan
- Tuition reimbursement
- Paid Time Off and Holidays
- Paid Parental Leave
- Adoption Reimbursement
Responsibilities- Define platform strategy, direction, architecture alignment, and modernization roadmaps
- Lead cross functional initiatives across Engineering, Operations, Architecture, Cybersecurity, Support, and business stakeholders
- Establish engineering standards, automation principles, and platform governance models
- Own platform reliability, scalability, resiliency, lifecycle planning, and business continuity
- Drive automation first approaches for infrastructure, deployments, and support processes
- Provide CI/CD governance, release standards, artifact management, and deployment maturity
- Lead observability, monitoring, logging, and service health strategies
- Act as escalation point for complex issues and major incidents
- Lead root cause analysis, problem management, and prevention of recurring issues
- Guide capacity planning, cloud cost optimization, licensing strategy, and lifecycle planning
- Own disaster recovery strategy and continuous improvement
- Mentor senior engineers and technical leads
- Influence decisions through alignment and tradeoff communication
- Ensure compliance, cybersecurity, access governance, risk management, and audit readiness
- Define SOPs, runbooks, and support readiness standards
- Balance technical, operational, and business priorities under pressure
- Foster collaboration across Architecture, Development, Operations, Security, Product, and Support teams
- Aim for continuous improvement, operational excellence, and engineering discipline
Key requirements- 7+ years in cloud platforms, infrastructure services, platform engineering, and cloud governance
- Experience with containerized workloads, orchestration platforms, microservices, and cloud-native deployment patterns
- Strong knowledge of CI/CD, release automation, artifact management, and deployment governance
- Experience with monitoring, alerting, observability, logging, and service health telemetry
- Security controls, access governance, RBAC, separation of duties, and compliance practices
- Experience leading platform upgrades, lifecycle management, migration planning, disaster recovery, and resiliency improvements
- Strong troubleshooting across infrastructure, application platforms, integrations, networking, and operational workflows
- Ability to define standards for SOPs, runbooks, and technical documentation
- Working knowledge of cost optimization, capacity planning, license management, and lifecycle planning
- Strategic thinker with business and technical judgment
- Proven ability to lead through influence across multiple teams
- Strong executive communication and stakeholder management
- Mentoring ability and ownership mindset
- Calm, decisive leadership during incidents and high pressure situations
- Strong collaboration across multiple disciplines
- Strategic thinking
- Executive communication
- Collaboration
- Kafka and IXBUS platforms
- Enterprise-scale cloud platforms and governance
- Containerized workloads and orchestration
