ServiceNow Senior Platform Engineer

Mindlance

Raleigh, NC

JOB DETAILS
SKILLS
Architectural Services, Automation, Data Sets, Environmental Engineering, Establish Priorities, High Availability, Incident Response, Operational Support, Performance Engineering, Performance Tuning/Optimization, Reliability Engineering, Risk, Risk Management, Service Delivery, ServiceNow, Software Engineering, Source Code/Configuration Management (SCM), Sustainability, Systems Administration/Management, Technical Operations, Technical Support, Telemetry, Test Automation, User Interface/Experience (UI/UX)
LOCATION
Raleigh, NC
POSTED
27 days ago
Description:
Business Initiative/Purpose: (Goal, Business Impact, Accomplishments from the work)
  • Deliver a Service Aware Organization by standardizing service identity, ownership, dependencies, telemetry, and controls into a machinereadable model that enables endtoend visibility, enforced accountability, and scalable, automationdriven operations.

Bachelor Degree: (Required, Preferred or Not Required)
  • Preferred.

Role Responsibilities: (what they will be doing)
Platform Reliability & Performance Engineering
Optimize platform performance for high-volume workflows, large data sets, and expanding automation demand.
Identify and address runtime bottlenecks, performance constraints, and supportability risks.
Establish engineering practices that improve stability under production load.

Platform Standards & Engineering Guardrails
Define and enforce technical standards for maintainable, upgrade-safe platform engineering.
Create reusable engineering patterns, review mechanisms, and design guardrails that improve consistency across teams.
Reduce customization sprawl by promoting sound platform design and architectural discipline.

Release, Delivery & Environment Engineering
Strengthen delivery practices through version control, automated testing, deployment discipline, and environment consistency.
Improve release predictability and reduce implementation risk through better engineering controls.
Partner with teams to ensure delivery practices support both speed and long-term maintainability.

Operational Resilience & Observability
Improve platform observability, health monitoring, and support readiness so issues are detected and addressed earlier.
Use operational data to identify patterns that affect platform reliability, user experience, or delivery quality.
Support resilient engineering responses to incidents, degradation, or scaling pressures.

Technical Debt & Platform Sustainability
Prioritize remediation of design choices, customizations, and legacy patterns that create long-term risk or constrain scale.
Guide teams toward implementations that improve the durability and extensibility of the platform over time.

Must Have Skills/Prior Experiences: (Vendor should not submit any candidate that does not have these skills/prior experience.)
Extensive experience in ServiceNow platform engineering, software engineering, or technical operations roles supporting enterprise platforms.
  • Strong understanding of performance optimization, engineering standards, release practices, and operational resilience.
  • Hands-on experience improving maintainability, scalability, and observability in complex environments.
  • Proven ability to balance delivery speed with control, supportability, and long-term platform integrity..

Plus/Nice to Have Skills/Prior Experiences: (Hiring Manager DOES NOT require these skills/ prior experience. However candidates with any of these will be looked at first.)
Experience supporting service-centric or Service-Aware operating models.
  • Familiarity with platform lifecycle management, observability practices, and engineering governance.
  • Background in highly regulated or high-availability environments.
  • Relevant engineering or platform certifications..

EEO
Mindlance is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate in employment on the basis of Minority/Gender/Disability/Religion/LGBTQI/Age/Veterans.

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