Sr Platform Engineer

About the role

The Sr Platform Engineer will own the reliability and evolution of the self-service platform that enables business teams to build and run analytics with minimal friction. They will also lead the modernization effort to migrate Batch Framework workloads to Farnam, ensuring robust operational support for Batch Framework during transition and collaborating with scheduling/orchestration stakeholders.

Responsibilities

• Own platform health and reliability for the self-service environment: monitor/triage, root-cause and resolve issues, and perform installation, upgrades, and application support on Linux.
• Lead the modernization effort to migrate Batch Framework workloads to Farnam; ensure robust operational support for Batch Framework during transition and partner with scheduling/orchestration stakeholders (e.g., Control-M) to bridge metadata and process gaps.
• Onboard new user groups and partner with Architecture on environment changes, add-on usage, and upgrades; implement security best practices for batch usage, version control, code migration, UNIX scripting, logging, and release procedures.
• Drive operational excellence by evaluating and implementing utilities and automation that increase platform/process efficiency and reduce support toil; measure and communicate improvements. Ensure disaster recovery and resilience strategies are defined, tested, and continuously improved for mission-critical data platforms and services.
• Build with a rigorous, multi-language toolbox—Java, Python, C#/ .NET, Control-M, BigQuery, and SQL to enhance the platform’s developer experience and scalability for federated analytics teams.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Minimum 5 years of experience with dedicated focus on Object-Oriented Programming, such as Python, Perl, .NET, and Java.
• Strong UNIX skills, SQL skills, and infrastructure knowledge.
• Advanced Python and .NET skills for platform enhancements and automation of platform maintenance tasks.

Preferred Qualifications

• Demonstrated ability to lead technical initiatives, supervise small engineering teams, and work collaboratively across functions to deliver scalable solutions.
• Experience managing the full lifecycle of cloud services, including provisioning, monitoring, scaling, and decommissioning, with a strong focus on security, compliance, and operational excellence.
• Highly organized and driven by nature, able to uphold agile methodology and source control (Bitbucket/GitHub) consistently.
• Experience with Jira and Remedy ticketing systems.
• Experience supporting production operations in a high-availability environment.