Platform Engineer

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The Platform Engineer is essential for designing and optimizing infrastructure that supports internal services and platforms within the organization. It involves building resilient and scalable systems to ensure robust infrastructure and enterprise-wide governance. The role focuses on implementing continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and enhancing data platform interoperability. Success is measured by system reliability efficient software deployment and seamless technology migrations and integrations. The work impacts the organization by enabling adaptability and operational excellence in a dynamic technological environment.

We are a team that encourages innovation and advocates an agile and open approach truly working and playing in the Un-carrier way!

Job Responsibilities:

• Designs and develops resilient and scalable infrastructure systems
  • Own day-to-day operations of hybrid infrastructure supporting T-Mobiles platform services.
  • Ensure uptime performance and security across on-prem AWS and Azure environments.
  • Troubleshoot complex infrastructure configuration and deployment issues impacting platform reliability.
  • Lead patching updates and configuration management with minimal oversight.
  • Participate in on-call rotation and drive improvements in incident response and postmortem practices.
• Optimizes existing infrastructure to enhance functionality and interoperability
  • Ensure system reliability performance and security through proactive monitoring automation and performance tuning
  • Troubleshoot complex platform and application integration issues impacting performance or availability
  • Develop execute and tune DML logic queries data migrations transformations and batch operations for performance and reliability
  • Drive incident analysis and reliability reviews to improve operational posture and system resilience
• Implements and maintains CI/CD pipelines for efficient software deployment
  • Support containerization and orchestration technologies including Docker and Kubernetes to standardize deployment practices
  • Design develop and maintain automation using Python Bash or PowerShell to increase operational efficiency.
  • Implement and manage Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform Ansible or equivalent frameworks.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for platform infrastructure and environment deployments (GitLab CI/CD Jenkins).
  • Establish documentation standards and reusable modules for consistent automation delivery.
• Collaborates within Agile teams to drive continuous improvement and operational excellence
  • Contribute to Agile ceremonies driving infrastructure readiness and delivery excellence
  • Advocate for DevOps and automation best practices across engineering teams
  • Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident resolution and root cause analysis
  • Lead efforts in automation for self-healing scaling and performance tuning
• Facilitates seamless migrations and integrations across different technologies
  • Develop and manage observability solutions leveraging Prometheus Grafana CloudWatch Azure Monitor or ELK
  • Implement proactive monitoring log analysis and metrics-based alerting for early issue detection
  • Collaborate with SREs to improve mean time to resolution (MTTR) and overall platform reliability
  • Execute and optimize DML operations within Postgres Oracle and Cassandra environments under existing organizational DDL structures
  • Develop and maintain integrations with Kafka for event-driven data pipelines message publishing and asynchronous workloads
  • Implement caching strategies (Redis in-memory caches) to reduce query latency and improve application performance
  • Support database performance tuning data ingestion and transformation activities aligned with enterprise governance standards
  • Partner across engineering DevOps and data teams to design scalable solutions and resolve complex issues

Education and Work Experience:

• Bachelors Degree plus 2 years of related work experience OR combination of education and experience deemed equivalent (Required)
• Acceptable areas of study include Computer Science Data Science or Related Field (Preferred)
• 2-4 years - Designing and developing scalable and resilient infrastructure systems
• 2-4 years - Implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines for enterprise applications
• 2-4 years - Integrating and optimizing data platforms for interoperability across various technologies

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Hands-on development experience using Python Bash or PowerShell
• Experience with observability solutions leveraging Prometheus Grafana CloudWatch Azure Monitor or ELK

Licenses and Certifications:

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA): Certification that validates the ability to design build configure and expose native cloud applications for Kubernetes an essential skill for Platform Engineers working on scalable systems. (Preferred)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect: Certification demonstrating proficiency in designing distributed systems and applications on the AWS platform which is crucial for Platform Engineers involved in cloud infrastructure and migrations. (Preferred)
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Certification indicating advanced knowledge in information security including system architecture and governance important for ensuring the security and integrity of platform infrastructures. (Preferred)

• At least 18 years of age
• Legally authorized to work in the United States

Travel:
Travel Required (Yes/No): No

DOT Regulated:
DOT Regulated Position (Yes/No): No
Safety Sensitive Position (Yes/No): No

Base Pay Range: $81200 - $146400

Corporate Bonus Target: 15%

The pay range above is the general base pay range for a successful candidate in the role. The successful candidates actual pay will be based on various factors such as work location qualifications and experience so the actual starting pay will vary within this range.

At T-Mobile employees in regular non-temporary roles are eligible for an annual bonus or periodic sales incentive or bonus based on their role. Most Corporate employees are eligible for a year-end bonus based on company and/or individual performance and which is set at a percentage of the employees eligible earnings in the prior year. Certain positions in Customer Care are eligible for monthly bonuses based on individual and/or team performance. To find the pay range for this role based on hiring location T-Mobile our benefits exemplify the spirit of One Team Together! A big part of how we care for one another is working to ensure our benefits evolve to meet the needs of our team members. Full and part-time employees have access to the same benefits when eligible. We cover all of the bases offering medical dental and vision insurance a flexible spending account 401(k) employee stock grants employee stock purchase plan paid time off and up to 12 paid holidays - which total about 4 weeks for new full-time employees and about 2.5 weeks for new part-time employees annually - paid parental and family leave family building benefits back-up care enhanced family support childcare subsidy tuition assistance college coaching short- and long-term disability voluntary AD&D coverage voluntary accident coverage voluntary life insurance voluntary disability insurance and voluntary long-term care insurance. We dont stop there - eligible employees can also receive mobile service & home internet discounts pet insurance and access to commuter and transit programs! To learn about T-Mobiles amazing benefits check out.

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