Staff Platform Engineer

TriNet is a leading provider of comprehensive human resources solutions for small to midsize businesses (SMBs). We enhance business productivity by enabling our clients to outsource their HR function to one strategic partner and allowing them to focus on operating and growing their core businesses. Our full-service HR solutions include features such as payroll processing human capital consulting employment law compliance and employee benefits including health insurance retirement plans and workers compensation insurance.

TriNet has a nationwide presence and an experienced executive team. Our stock is publicly traded on the NYSE under the ticker symbol TNET. If youre passionate about innovation and making an impact on the large SMB market come join us as we power our clients business success with extraordinary HR.

Dont meet every single requirement Studies have shown that many potential applicants discourage themselves from applying to jobs unless they meet every single requirement. TriNet always strives to hire the most qualified candidate for a particular role ensuring we deliver outstanding results for our small and medium-size customers. So if youre excited about this role but your past experience doesnt align perfectly with every single qualification in the job description nobodys perfect and we encourage you to apply. You may just be the right candidate for this or other roles.

A Brief Overview
The position leads designs and implements automated infrastructure and processes that support in-house software engineering and SRE. This role drives cultural and operational transformation initiatives and advances IT process improvements across reliability change management application deployment incident management and continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD).

What you will do

• Design build and maintain infrastructure as code (IaC) solutions across AWS and OCI enabling fully automated multi-region infrastructure to support Kubernetes RDS ElastiCache S3 Kafka RabbitMQ and other services.
• Collaborate with software developers product managers SREs and release engineering to integrate infrastructure into CI/CD pipelines supporting seamless delivery of secure compliant and observable platforms.
• Lead efforts to embed observability (APM logging metrics) and security/compliance controls directly into IaC patterns and platform services.
• Build and maintain data replication workflows for supporting environments enabling production-like scenarios while maintaining security and auditability.
• Establish and maintain DevOps best practices including branching strategies code versioning environment standardization and continuous delivery automation.
• Provide subject matter expertise on development tools platform automation infrastructure patterns and release orchestration to accelerate delivery and operational efficiency.
• Document infrastructure patterns platform capabilities and tooling while identifying opportunities to improve standardization reuse and developer self-service.
• Partner with engineering and operations to evaluate and adopt emerging technologies that enhance platform capabilities that align with enterprise goals.
• Apply Agile methodologies and DevSecOps principles to ensure scalable secure and resilient infrastructure solutions.
• Participate in system integration testing environment validation and production readiness activities to ensure end-to-end reliability.
• Comply with all corporate security and compliance standards.
• Performs other duties as assigned
• Complies with all policies and standards

Education Qualifications

• Bachelors Degree or equivalent experience preferred

Experience Qualifications

• Typically 8+ years

Skills and Abilities

• Deep understanding of infrastructure as code (IaC) principles and hands-on experience designing and delivering automated cloud infrastructure primarily on AWS and OCI with an emphasis on multi-region architectures and service replication strategies.
• Strong knowledge of Agile and DevOps practices with a platform mindset focused on automation scalability reliability and security/compliance by design.
• Proven experience integrating observability tools (APM centralized logging metrics) and security controls (e.g. IAM encryption scanning) into IaC pipelines.
• Ability to partner with release engineering to embed infrastructure components into CI/CD pipelines ensuring consistent deployments across environments.
• Hands-on expertise managing infrastructure for Kubernetes Amazon RDS ElastiCache S3 Kafka RabbitMQ and other distributed systems.
• Familiarity with cross-environment data replication strategies especially for supporting lower environments with production-like data in a secure and compliant way.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to engage and align stakeholders including executives and business partners.
• Advanced proficiency with Terraform Python Ansible and related scripting tools; strong debugging error handling and automation workflows.
• Proficiency in containerization (e.g. Docker) and securing container images using tools like Trivy Snyk or equivalent.
• Strong understanding of software architecture API services and platform-level integration patterns including SOA/microservices best practices.
• Experience optimizing CI/CD processes including code quality security testing automation and compliance enforcement.
• Passion for platform enablement and delivering reusable self-service infrastructure that accelerates developer velocity.
• High attention to detail and exceptional organizational skills to manage complex evolving infrastructure landscapes.

Licenses and Certifications

• HashiCorp Terraform Associate Certification or equivalent hands-on experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform preferred. required

Travel Requirements
Minimal

Work Environment

• Work in clean pleasant and comfortable office or home setting. The work environment characteristics described here are representative of those an employee encounters while performing the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable persons with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

The preferred location for this role is Atlanta GA and the salary range for this location is $108700.00 to $239100.00. All qualified external applicants will be considered for an in-office role based in Atlanta. All qualified internal candidates are encouraged to apply and consider relocation to Atlanta and may be considered for remote hire at the companys discretion. The candidates final salary offer will be based on the candidates skills education work location and experience.

A candidates compensation may also include bonuses consistent with TriNets corporate bonus plan.

Additionally subject to applicable eligibility requirements TriNet offers permanent full-time employees a variety of benefits including medical dental and vision plans life and disability insurance a 401(K) savings plan an employee stock purchase plan eleven (11) Company observed holidays PTO and a comprehensive leave program. Please click the following link for detailed information about our benefits offerings: Note: TriNet reserves the right to change or modify job duties and assignments at any time. The above job description is not all encompassing. Position functions and qualifications may vary depending on business necessity.

TriNet is an Equal Opportunity Employer and does not discriminate against applicants based on race religion color disability medical condition legally protected genetic information national origin gender sexual orientation marital status gender identity or expression sex (including pregnancy childbirth or related medical conditions) age veteran status or other legally protected characteristics. Any applicant with a mental or physical disability who requires an accommodation during the application process should contact recruiting@ to request such an accommodation.