Cloud Platform Engineer III

About the role

As a Cloud Platform Engineer III, you will play a pivotal role in enabling development and operations teams through robust, scalable, and secure platform capabilities. You will help build the foundation that empowers teams to deliver software efficiently, reliably, and securely.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain self-service platform capabilities that streamline application delivery, observability, and operational workflows across the organization
• Develop infrastructure and tooling that supports scalable CI/CD pipelines, Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC), and deployment automation using technologies such as Azure DevOps, Terraform, GitHub, and ARM templates
• Standardize and automate platform operations, including provisioning, configuration management, secrets management, and runtime orchestration
• Engineer comprehensive observability solutions across logging, metrics, and traces using tools such as Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry, and Datadog
• Implement reliability patterns and SRE-inspired practices to improve service performance, availability, and scalability
• Integrate security into your work by embedding secure-by-default practices into platform tooling and pipelines, supporting DevSecOps principles, and helping ensure platform components and services adhere to security baselines and compliance standards
• Work closely with application developers, cloud engineers, data teams, cybersecurity, and product teams to support the smooth integration of platform services across the software development lifecycle
• Mentor team members, foster continuous learning and shared ownership
• Participate in incident response and root cause analysis, and contribute to blameless post-mortems that improve platform resilience
• Serve as an escalation point for platform monitoring, tools, and general cloud infrastructure
• Participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation as needed

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, an IT-related field, or a related field is preferred
• Must be presently authorized to work in the U.S. without a requirement for work authorization sponsorship by our company for this position now or in the future
• This position allows for a hybrid work schedule which includes a minimum of 3 days per week in our St. Louis Corporate Office, located at 1832 Schuetz Rd. Saint Louis, MO. All employees are required to submit work from home requests and follow our Work From Home policy, which will be provided to all candidates selected to interview
• Minimum 6 years of experience in Information Systems or a related technical field
• Experience with Azure DevOps, Terraform, GitHub, and ARM templates
• Experience with observability technologies such as Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry, and Datadog
• Experience with DevSecOps principles and secure-by-default platform engineering
• Demonstrated expertise in the Microsoft Azure ecosystem, including identity, networking, and compute services
• Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform, ARM templates, and Ansible
• Strong background in CI/CD systems, containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes on Azure, and platform-as-a-service (PaaS) offerings
• Proficiency in observability tooling and practices across cloud-native and hybrid environments
• Solid understanding of cloud security practices and experience integrating security into infrastructure and application delivery pipelines
• Proven ability to translate complex technical concepts for varied audiences
• Demonstrated leadership and mentoring capabilities in a cross-functional team environment
• Ability to participate in a 24/7 on-call rotation as needed

Preferred Qualifications

• Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills
• Professional certifications relevant to cloud, DevOps, or security
• Experience implementing SRE-inspired reliability practices
• Experience participating in incident response, root cause analysis, and blameless post-mortems
• Experience mentoring technical team members and fostering a culture of continuous learning and shared ownership

Pay

The target base salary range for this position is $101,500 to $131,000. Compensation for the successful candidate will consider the candidate's particular combination of knowledge, skills, competencies, experience and geographic location.

Benefits

• Generous health, dental, and vision coverage
• Health savings accounts
• 401(k)-retirement savings match and an annual profit sharing contribution
• Family forming benefits for adoption, fertility, and surrogacy
• Generous paid time off and paid holidays
• Paid parental and caregiver leave
• Hybrid work environment
• Company-paid life insurance and disability
• Professional growth and development opportunities
• Employee recognition and well-being programs
• Tuition reimbursement
• Wellness perks

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