Platform Engineer - Corporate IT (Kansas City)

**Description** The Staff Platform Engineer focuses on delivering platforms and relentlessly improving developer experience. They automate processes and develop self-service capabilities around infrastructure and application delivery. They serve as an escalation point for junior engineers. + Uses DevOps practices and thinking to guide automation efforts across infrastructure provisioning and application delivery and deployment activities. + Works to increase deployment frequency, decrease failure change rate, decrease the mean time to recover (MTTR), and decrease lead time. + Writes code to provision infrastructure and deploy applications. + Focuses on customer service and using empathy to improve developer experience. + Builds trust with teams participating in conversations about new practices. Relentlessly works to eliminate pain points and remove process bottlenecks. + Takes work break downs from other team members asking questions to clarify requirements and acceptance criteria. + Comfortable with some degree of ambiguity and change. + Collaboratively uses tools that improve developer productivity--especially focusing on tools that are part of CI/CD processes that improve the speed and safety of deployment pipelines through the software development lifecycle. + Uses SLOs (service level objectives) to define SLIs (service level indicators) to observe application and infrastructure health, and for troubleshooting infrastructure and applications. + Commitment to continuous learning and improvement. + All other duties as assigned. **Qualifications** + Bachelor's degree in technology, business, or a related field from an accredited program is required and 4 years (5 years preferred) in infrastructure and network systems design, deployment and management, system engineering, or related experience required. + Applicable years of experience may be substituted for the degree requirement. + Experience building cloud infrastructure in AWS, GCP, or Azure. + Need experience with IaC (Infrastructure as Code) tools like Terraform or Pulumi for provisioning resources is strongly preferred. + Experience scripting tasks using Bash, Python, PowerShell, Go, or similar languages. + Familiarity with Git and workflows for reviewing and releasing code. + Experience with TCP/IP networking, DNS, and Certificate management + Familiarity with CI/CD processes and tools for building and deploying application code. + Strong computer skills (e.g., Microsoft Office Suite). + Excellent written and verbal communication skills. + Ability to partner on work and resolve issues in a team environment. + Demonstrated critical thinking skills and ability to work methodically and analytically in a problem-solving environment. + Strong attention to detail, facilitation, team building and collaboration. + Experience with Python and React software development. + Experience with security systems and policies and experience in vulnerability management and remediation. + Experience with cloud technologies, automation scripts and infrastructure management. This job posting will remain open a minimum of 72 hours and on an ongoing basis until filled. EEO/Disabled/Veterans **Job** Information Technology **Primary Location** US-MO-Kansas City **Schedule:** Full-time **Travel:** Yes, 5 % of the Time **Req ID:** 261565 **Job Hire Type** Experienced #LI-MJ #COR N/A