Senior Platform Engineer

Senior Platform Engineer

Location: Kansas City, MO

Onsite Flexibility: Onsite

Contract Details

• Position Type: Contract
• Contract Duration: 5 months
• Pay Rate: $68.00 $74.00 / Hour (USD)
• Work Authorization: Applicants must be authorized to work for ANY employer in the U.S. We are unable to sponsor or take over sponsorship of an employment Visa at this time.

Job Summary

The Senior Platform Engineer leads the design and delivery of platforms and drives strategic improvements to developer experience across the organization. They own complex automation initiatives, architect self-service capabilities around infrastructure and application delivery, and serve as a primary escalation point and technical mentor for assistant and staff level engineers.

Key Responsibilities

• Leads and champions DevOps practices and culture across the organization, driving automation strategy for infrastructure provisioning and application delivery. Creates processes and conversations to drive improvements related to deployment frequency, failure change rate, mean time to recover (MTTR), and lead time, and sets measurable targets for improvement.
• Partners with architects and writes well-crafted code to provision infrastructure and deploy applications at scale. Establishes patterns, standards, and reusable components that other engineers follow. Documents trade-offs to different approaches and document architectural decisions.
• Serves as a strategic partner to engineering teams on developer experience. Proactively identifies systemic pain points and process bottlenecks, leads initiatives to resolve them, and builds lasting trust across teams through consistent delivery and deep technical empathy.
• Independently scopes and leads complicated work streams, defining requirements and acceptance criteria in collaboration with stakeholders. Operates effectively in ambiguous environments and guides the team through uncertainty and change.
• Evaluates, selects, and owns the toolchain for developer productivity particularly CI/CD pipelines ensuring the software development lifecycle is fast, safe, and reliable. Drives adoption of new tooling and practices across the organization.
• Defines and owns SLO (service level objective) and SLI (service level indicator) frameworks for platform and application health. Leads incident response, conducts blameless post-mortems, and drives systemic improvements to observability and reliability.
• Mentors and coaches engineers at all levels, conducts code and architecture reviews, and contributes to hiring and team development.
• Commitment to continuous learning and improvement.
• All other duties as assigned.

Required Skills

• Deep expertise in building and operating cloud infrastructure in GCP, Azure, or AWS. Mastery of IaC (Infrastructure as Code) tools such as Terraform or Pulumi, including authoring reusable modules and enforcing organizational standards.
• Strong software engineering skills with extensive experience scripting and building tooling in Bash, Python, PowerShell, Go, or similar languages.
• Expert-level proficiency with Git, including branch strategies, code review workflows, and release management practices.
• Strong understanding of TCP/IP networking, DNS, certificate management, and network security principles as applied to cloud and hybrid environments.
• Extensive hands-on experience designing, building, and operating CI/CD pipelines and the tooling ecosystems around them. Able to evaluate tradeoffs and make architectural recommendations on build and deployment systems.
• Advanced computer skills (e.g., Microsoft Office Suite).
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to lead projects and delegate work tasks to team members. Ability to lead the execution of 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.

Education Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree in technology, business, or related field required.
• Applicable years of experience may be substituted for the degree requirement.

Required Experience

• Minimum of 8 years of experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, DevOps, SRE, or a closely related technical discipline.

Benefits

• Medical, Vision, and Dental Insurance Plans
• 401k Retirement Fund

About the Client

This infrastructure engineering firm has been designing and building essential city and civil infrastructure since 1898, serving sectors that include energy, aviation, water, telecommunications, transportation, and healthcare. Headquartered in Kansas City, Missouri, and operating from 75 offices across the country and internationally, the firm has grown to more than 14,500 employee-owners generating over $7.4 billion in annual revenue. What distinguishes this organization is its 100% employee-owned structure through an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP), which aligns professional incentives with company performance and has earned it recognition as a Glassdoor Best Places to Work multiple years running, with a 4.2 out of 5 star rating across more than 1,800 employee reviews and 87% of employees recommending it as a workplace. Teams here span civil and structural engineers, architects, environmental scientists, construction managers, program management professionals, and platform and infrastructure engineers who engage with complex, consequential, and often one-of-a-kind projects.

About GTT

GTT is a minority-owned staffing firm and a subsidiary of Chenega Corporation, a Native American-owned company in Alaska. We highly value diverse and inclusive workplaces and support Fortune 500 organizations across banking, financial services, technology, life sciences, biotech, utilities, and retail sectors throughout the U.S. and Canada.

Job Number: 26-09498 Industry: Engineering

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