Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

The Senior Platform Engineer will help manage on prem and cloud applications within our HRIT organization.

What You'll Do:

• Build and maintain various on prem COTs products on Unix or Windows Systems essential for business operations
• Deploy applications as code to the cloud using terraform and similar tools
• Assist in application migrations to SAAS products
• Create, maintain, and improve automation and operational scripts (Bash, Python, or similar) for deployments, backups, monitoring, rollbacks, and routine maintenance.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for various applications and services.
• Monitor platform health and data pipelines; implement alerting, capacity planning, and performance tuning.
• Plan and execute backups, disaster recovery drills, and restore procedures supported applications.
• Enforce security best practices: secrets management, role-based access control, patching, vulnerability remediation, and audit logging.
• Troubleshoot incidents across integration stack, perform root cause analysis, and produce post-incident reports.
• Maintain accurate operational documentation, runbooks, playbooks, and run regular housekeeping tasks.
• Mentor junior admins/engineers and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver integration solutions

Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications):

• Scripting, Terraform, Linux, Windows Servers, Github, Python, SSO/SAML
• 5+ years of production systems administration and platform support experience (or equivalent).
• Demonstrated engineering expertise in evaluating, designing, and implementing deployment architectures for a variety of complex data and application platforms.
• Strong Linux system administration (RHEL/CentOS) and networking fundamentals.
• Proficiency with scripting and automation (Bash and one or more: Python, Perl).
• Experience with CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, or similar).
• Solid understanding of security practices for data platforms (RBAC, secrets management, TLS, patching).
• Excellent troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.

What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications):

• Experience in BrowserStack
• Experience in OTEL / DataDog
• Experience with Lenel Software

GM does not provide immigration-related sponsorship for this role. Do not apply for this role if you will need GM immigration sponsorship now or in the future. This includes direct company sponsorship, entry of GM as the immigration employer of record on a government form, and any work authorization requiring a written submission or other immigration support from the company (e.g., H1-B, OPT, STEM OPT, CPT, TN, J-1, etc).

This role is categorized as hybrid. This means the selected candidate is expected to report to a specific location at least 3 times a week {or other frequency dictated by their manager}.

This job may be eligible for relocation benefits.

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