Role: Sr. Platform Engineer
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Job Description:
Sr. Platform Engineer
Platform Engineering & Automation
Position Overview
The Sr Platform Engineer is responsible for designing, building, and continuously improving the firm's hybrid infrastructure platforms spanning on-premises datacenters and public cloud environments. This role focuses on platform engineering practices, automation, infrastructure-as-code, and operational excellence to deliver scalable, secure, and self-service infrastructure services.
The engineer will partner closely with cloud, networking, security, automation, and application teams to create reusable platform capabilities, automate infrastructure lifecycle management, and enable modernization initiatives across the enterprise. This position plays a key role in advancing the hybrid cloud strategy through platform standardization, governance, observability, cost optimization, and automation-first operational practices.
Key Responsibilities
Platform Engineering & Service Enablement
- Design, build, and maintain hybrid infrastructure platforms supporting public cloud and on-premises environments.
- Develop reusable platform services that enable self-service provisioning and standardized infrastructure deployment.
- Establish platform standards, golden images, reference architectures, and engineering guardrails.
- Contribute to enterprise platform roadmaps and modernization initiatives.
Infrastructure Automation & IaC
- Develop and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code solutions using Terraform, Terraform Cloud, Bicep, Ansible, and automation frameworks.
- Build automation workflows for provisioning, compliance validation, lifecycle management, patching, backup, and disaster recovery.
- Develop reusable infrastructure modules and automation pipelines following DevOps and Platform Engineering principles.
Cloud-enabled Operations & Support
- Engineer and optimize hybrid cloud environments across VMware Cloud Foundation, Azure, AWS, and future cloud platforms.
- Support a “Cloud Landing Zone” architecture pattern.
- Assist with workload discovery and migration readiness activities, then execute migration tasks (e.g., provisioning, cutovers, validation) for workloads moving to multi-cloud strategy.
- Infrastructure optimization and improve day-day management of on-premises compute, storage, and virtualization platforms (VMware vSphere) that would introduce efficiencies thru automated workflows.
- Experience managing a Cloud-enabled Identity and Directory Services implementing and maintaining Active Directory/Azure AD integration (Entra), RBAC/ABAC, policy-based access control, service principals, and secrets management across cloud environments.
- Support a hybrid network connectivity by implementing, validating, and troubleshooting connectivity between on-prem and cloud environments (e.g. SDWAN, ExpressRoute, Direct Connect, Private Gateways) in partnership with Network Reliability team, InfoSec, including segmentation, routing, firewall rules, load balancing, and latency/bandwidth requirements for target workloads.
- Familiarity with cloud governance & FinOps enablement by implementation of governance controls (guardrails, tagging, policy enforcement), cost management (FinOps) reporting, and securing a hybrid environment.
Relevant Skills & Experience
Required
- 8+ years supporting enterprise-scale infrastructure and multi-cloud hyperscalers (e.g. Azure, AWS, GCP).
- 5+ years working with Terraform and advanced understanding of Infrastructure-as-Code methodologies.
- Deep experience designing, building, and operating CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and enterprise source control platforms to enable automated, secure, and scalable infrastructure and application delivery.
- Experience building automation using Ansible, Bash, PowerShell, Python scripting, and REST APIs.
- Experience with cloud governance, policy management, and FinOps practices.
- Understanding of cloud networking, DNS, cloud-enabled identity services, security controls, and hybrid connectivity.
- Hands-on experience with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, or similar observability platforms.
- Familiarity with Internal Developer Platforms (IDP).
Preferred
- Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF), vSphere, and hybrid cloud architectures.
- Azure/AWS Solutions Architect or cloud-related certifications.
- HashiCorp Terraform Associate or Advanced certifications.
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, AKS, EKS, or OpenShift.
- Experience with Databricks infrastructure, AI platform hosting, or enterprise data platforms.
- Experience integrating AIOps, observability, or monitoring platforms.
Skills Required
- 8+ years supporting enterprise-scale infrastructure and multi-cloud hyperscalers such as Azure, AWS, or GCP
- 5+ years working with Terraform and advanced Infrastructure-as-Code methodologies
- Experience designing, building, and operating CI/CD pipelines and GitOps workflows using GitHub Actions, Jenkins, and enterprise source control platforms
- Experience with Ansible, Bash, PowerShell, Python scripting, and REST APIs
- Experience with cloud governance, policy management, and FinOps practices
- Understanding of cloud networking, DNS, cloud-enabled identity services, security controls, and hybrid connectivity
- Hands-on experience with Azure Monitor, Log Analytics, Application Insights, Grafana, Datadog, Splunk, or similar observability platforms
- Familiarity with Internal Developer Platforms
- Experience with VMware Cloud Foundation, vSphere, and hybrid cloud architectures
- Azure, AWS Solutions Architect, or other cloud-related certifications
- HashiCorp Terraform Associate or Advanced certification
- Hands-on experience with Kubernetes, AKS, EKS, or OpenShift
- Experience with Databricks infrastructure, AI platform hosting, or enterprise data platforms
- Experience integrating AIOps, observability, or monitoring platforms
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What We Do
WHO Founded in 2006 and headquartered in Redmond, WA. Our Senior Leadership team has more than 137 years of combined experience in the Telecommunications and Software Industry. Inabia is built on family values and close-knit culture. This commitment extends to the relationships we build with both our employees and our business partnerships. As a Minority Certified business, we strive to positively impact society through technology, people, and innovation. WHAT For over a decade, we have been providing powerful IT and business solutions to individuals and businesses alike. Here at Inabia, we believe that our success reflects our clients’ success. HOW We are fortunate to be situated in a city where technology and innovation is not only appreciated; but part of day to day lives. We are a growing company that has adapted and evolved our approach, helping us to exceed the ever-changing needs and requirements of our clients. WHY We are a company that fosters and values relationships, as a result many of our clients have been with us from the start of our journey. We ensure that our partners have access to best-in-class professional support, management consulting and staffing services. We make sure our consultants are carefully screened and selected based on their experience. This process ensures that we meet or exceed the specific needs of our clients.
