Platform Engineer

Candidate must be a US Citizen (due to contractual/access requirements).

About the Role

The Platform Engineer designs, implements, administers, and supports enterprise cloud platforms, integrations, databases, and application services. This role combines platform engineering, cloud operations, automation, security, and development responsibilities to deliver secure, scalable, and reliable solutions that support business objectives.

Responsibilities

• Provide strategic consultation to business customers in defining or designing business processes, functions, and organizational structures, as well as researching, identifying, and internally marketing enabling technologies based on customer capability requirements.
• Facilitate development of enterprise business solutions that combine knowledge of particular business processes and issues, general technological options, and process facilitation techniques.
• Participate in enterprise strategy development, including environmental analysis, opportunity identification, value cases, and business innovation portfolio development.
• Specify and design large or complex systems, solutions, networks, infrastructure elements, or processes.
• Select appropriate design standards, methods, and tools and ensure they are applied effectively.
• Review others’ system designs to ensure selection of appropriate technology, efficient use of resources, and integration of multiple systems and technology.
• Establish policy for selection of architecture components.
• Evaluate and undertake impact analysis on major design options.
• Ensure that the system architecture balances functional, service quality, and systems management requirements.
• Use appropriate tools, including models of components and interfaces, to contribute to the development of architectures.
• Produce detailed component requirements, specifications, and translate these into detailed solutions/designs for implementation using selected products.
• Provide advice on technical aspects of system development, integration (including requests for changes, deviations from specifications, etc.), and processes.
• Ensure that relevant technical and business strategies, policies, standards, and practices are applied correctly.
• Select and use tools and methods to establish, clarify, and communicate the functional and non-functional requirements of system users, their characteristics, and tasks.
• Identify the technical, organizational, and physical environment in which complex products or systems will operate.
• Identify, propose, initiate, and lead significant improvement programs, taking responsibility for the quality and appropriateness of the work performed and the realization of measurable business benefits.
• Modify existing process improvement approaches and/or develop new approaches to achieving improvement.
• Ensure the resolution of a variety of architecture and business problems; communicate effectively with all levels of the organization.
• Manage expectations of customers, partners, and management.
• Participate in customer walkthroughs and plans; design and technical walk-throughs; and problem resolution and decision making.
• Interact with departments across the organization as necessary, including the development and interpretation of complex requirements for peers and other staff.
• Maintain an in-depth knowledge of specific technical aspects in area of expertise and provide advice regarding their application.
• Provide leadership in areas of expertise and architecture to peers, developers, management, and business users, including technical expertise, coaching, and ad-hoc training by preparing presentations on complex issues and presenting to peers to ensure consistency with strategic direction.
• Other duties as assigned or requested.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology or closely related field (required).
• 3 years of experience in an IT discipline (required).

Preferred Qualifications

• Master’s degree.
• Experience administering and supporting Oracle Cloud Infrastructure (OCI) services.
• Experience supporting Oracle WebLogic, Oracle Integration Cloud (OIC), Oracle Data Integrator (ODI), Oracle APEX, Oracle ERP Cloud, and related Oracle platform technologies.
• Experience administering and supporting Oracle Autonomous Transaction Processing (ATP) and Autonomous Data Warehouse (ADW) environments.
• Experience with Oracle database administration, performance tuning, backup and recovery, and database lifecycle management.
• Experience implementing and supporting cloud security controls, identity and access management, secrets management, and security compliance within Oracle Cloud environments.
• Experience developing integrations, APIs, and automation solutions using cloud-native and middleware technologies.
• Experience utilizing Infrastructure as Code, scripting, and DevOps practices to automate platform deployment and administration.
• Experience troubleshooting complex platform, middleware, database, and integration issues in enterprise environments.
• Experience working in Agile and DevOps delivery models.
• OCI certifications, cloud platform certifications (AWS, Azure, OCI, or GCP), or DevOps/platform engineering certifications.

Skills

An Architect is not required to have experience in all of these, but must have those needed to support applications they are responsible for. Current skill sets are reviewed every other year; new skills may be required to meet changing business needs.

• IMS, DB2, Oracle, and Teradata Databases, Data Warehousing.
• COBOL, Visual Basic, C, C++, SAS.
• Java/JavaScript Framework.
• PEGA, CSS3, Mobile, JSON, Cognos, Hadoop, SQL, J2EE, HTML5/XML.
• Project Management Tools: Waterfall, Agile.
• Certification in application areas such as Java Developer, DB2, Cognos, PEGA, Enterprise Architect (SCEA), Project Management.

Schedule

• Position Type: Office-based.
• Travel requirement: 0% - 25%.
• Physical work site required: Yes.

Pay

Pay Range Minimum: $86,400.00

Pay Range Maximum: $138,600.00

Base pay is determined by a variety of factors including a candidate’s qualifications, experience, and expected contributions, as well as internal peer equity, market, and business considerations.