Senior Platform Engineer

Company:

The Boeing Company is looking for a Senior Platform Engineer to join our Digital Analytics and System Health (DASH) software team in Ridley Park PA. This position will focus on supporting the Boeing Global Services (BGS) organization.

The ideal candidate will possess a strong foundation and solid understanding of DevOps principles cloud computing and automation practices with a passion for technology and the ability to work collaboratively in a fast-paced environment. You will be a key driver in shaping the future of our software delivery leading the architecture development and maintenance of our internal developer platform creating automated self-service tools and infrastructure that empower product development teams. A successful candidate will be a seasoned technical expert a pragmatic problem-solver and an advocate for a robust scalable and secure engineering culture. As part of the team you will oversee and execute a wide range of complex tasks leveraging cutting-edge software technologies that define the future of digital and analytics solutions for our customers.

This position is expected to be 100% onsite. The selected candidate will be required to work onsite at one of the listed location options.

Position Responsibilities:

• Design implement and operate secure scalable cloud architectures across cloud providers (e.g. AWS Azure and/or GCP) optimizing reliability performance and cost

• Establish and enforcestandards best practices and metrics for CI/CD pipelines platform services release management security controls and incident response

• Architect and maintain internal platform capabilities (build pipelines runtime environments container orchestration secret management service catalogs self-service APIs) to enhance developer experience and reliability

• Ensure platform reliability scalability security observability and regulatory compliance at scale across multiple environments

• Lead the design and evolution of scalable internal developer platforms (IDPs) and core services driving platform-as-a-product adoption

• Design implement and continuously improve end-to-end CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies (blue/green canary) for rapid and safe software delivery across multiple environments

• Enforce security best practices with automated controls (IAM secrets policy-as-code) and continuous compliance checks across the platform

• Establish continuous monitoring and threat-detection frameworks for real-time insights and proactive incident response

• Oversee risk assessment threat modeling and mitigation planning processes to align platform development with business objectives

• Lead and mentor a multidisciplinary team of platform engineers DevOps engineers SREs and tooling specialists

• Drive modernization initiatives (cloud IaC automation observability) while balancing risk and operational stability

• Elevate cloud security posture using industry standards (NIST CIS OWASP) and implement policy-as-code and automation to raise the security baseline

Basic Qualifications (Required Skills/Experience):

• 10 years of experience in reliability software development DevOps or infrastructure

• 8 years of experience in a cloud computing environment e.g. Azure/AWS/Google Cloud

• 7 years of experience installing and configuring open-source monitoring tools (Ex. Grafana Prometheus Splunk Elasticsearch Kibana)

• 7 years years of experience automating product development using scripting/programming languages

• 2 years of engineering experience in the aerospace industry

Preferred Qualifications (Desired Skills/Experience):

• Bachelor of Science degree from an accredited course of study in engineering engineering technology (includes manufacturing engineering technology) chemistry physics mathematics data science or computer science

• Excellent written and verbal communication skills with ability to present complex technical concepts to non-technical stakeholders and executives.

• Experience in government or military programs and regulatory/compliance standards familiarity

• Certifications in cloud security or DevOps (e.g. AWS Certified Solutions Architect AWS Certified DevOps Engineer Kubernetes Certification CISSP CISM)

• 2 years of experience with big data technologies (e.g. Spark Kafka Databricks).

Travel:

Less than 10%

Drug Free Workplace:

Boeing is a Drug Free Workplace where post offer applicants and employees are subject to testing for marijuana cocaine opioids amphetamines PCP and alcohol when criteria is met as outlined in our policies.

CodeVue Coding Challenge:
To be considered for this position you will be required to complete a technical assessment as part of the selection process. Failure to complete the assessment will remove you from consideration.

Pay & Benefits:

At Boeing we strive to deliver a Total Rewards package that will attract engage and retain the top talent. Elements of the Total Rewards package include competitive base pay and variable compensation opportunities.

The Boeing Company also provides eligible employees with an opportunity to enroll in a variety of benefit programs generally including health insurance flexible spending accounts health savings accounts retirement savings plans life and disability insurance programs and a number of programs that provide for both paid and unpaid time away from work.

The specific programs and options available to any given employee may vary depending on eligibility factors such as geographic location date of hire and the applicability of collective bargaining agreements.

Pay is based upon candidate experience and qualifications as well as market and business considerations.

Summary Pay Range: $176800 - $239200

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