Senior Platform Engineer
About this role
Job Description
As a Senior Platform Engineer, you play a critical role in maintaining and evolving our enterprise integration platforms. This role blends engineering and operations, ensuring our platforms are not only reliable today but improved for tomorrow. You will focus heavily on proactive engineering work — such as automating platform operations, improving observability, designing for resilience, and optimizing performance — while also owning key operational responsibilities like lifecycle management, stability assurance, and deep‑dive troubleshooting. Through both preventative work and targeted operational excellence, you will ensure our Kafka, Solace PubSub+, and API Management platforms remain trusted, resilient, and ready for future growth."
Responsibilities
- Platform Architecture & Infrastructure Leadership
- Lead the implementation, and optimization of complex platform infrastructure, ensuring high availability, fault tolerance, and compliance with architectural standards.
- Maintain scalable platform ecosystems using advanced cloud capabilities including container orchestration (e.g., Kubernetes), serverless computing, and distributed systems.
- Drive continuous evolution of integration platforms to meet emerging business and technology needs.
- Integration Platform Operations & Reliability (Kafka, Solace PubSub+, API Management)
- Operate, maintain, and enhance enterprise-grade integration platforms, including Apache Kafka, Solace PubSub+, and API management platforms (e.g., Azure API Management).
- Lead platform lifecycle management for at least one of these technologies, covering upgrades, scaling, patching, performance optimization, HA configuration, and automation.
- Own production reliability for integration platforms, ensuring stability, observability, and proactive risk mitigation.
- Troubleshoot complex platform issues, oversee incident resolution, and drive long-term corrective actions.
- Cloud Engineering & Automation
- Implement advanced c