Sr. Platform Engineer

Your Job

We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineering to design, implement, and maintain robust, scalable, and secure infrastructure for AI-driven software solutions. This role focuses on building and enhancing an infrastructure platform that supports high-availability AI services and complex computational workflows. Responsibilities include designing cloud-based solutions, optimizing data storage and processing architectures, and implementing best practices in security and developer platform designs. The ideal candidate will contribute to the continuous improvement of our infrastructure, ensuring it meets the evolving needs of our AI applications and aligns with industry standards.

Our Team

The role will be part of the Koch Generative AI Capability and will report up through the CTO organization. The role will be working daily with technical resources, leaders, other Product Owners and enabling capability teams like Learning and Development.

What You Will Do

• Design, implement and maintain robust scalable, secure, and highly available infrastructure to support AI-driven software solutions.
• Optimize Cloud Environments: Enhance the performance and efficiency of cloud environments by implementing best practices and utilizing advanced cloud services.
• Manage CI/CD Pipelines: Develop, maintain, and optimize continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines to streamline the development and deployment processes.
• Integrate Emerging Technologies: Evaluate and integrate emerging technologies to improve scalability, security, and efficiency of the platform.
• Collaborate Across Teams: Work closely with data scientists, software developers, architects, and other stakeholders to ensure that infrastructure solutions align with organizational goals and project requirements.
• Implement best practices for security to protect data and infrastructure from vulnerabilities and threats.
• Continuously monitor system performance, scalability and reliability, and perform necessary maintenance and troubleshooting to ensure optimal operation.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Minimum 5 years of experience in platform engineering or related fields.
• Experience with cloud service providers such as AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud Platform.
• Hands-on experience with tools like GitLab, or GitHub
• Experience with infrastructure as code tools like Terraform or CDK.
• Knowledge of security best practices and tools for securing cloud infrastructure.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills to address complex technical challenges.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills to collaborate effectively with team members and stakeholders.
• Extensive experience in DevOps methodologies and practices.
• Programming Skills: Strong programming skills in languages like Python.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• Advanced certifications in cloud technologies such as AWS Certified Solutions Architect
• Experience managing multi-cloud environments and hybrid cloud solutions.
• Proven leadership skills and the ability to mentor junior engineers.
• Familiarity with the latest technologies and trends in cloud computing, containerization (e.g., Docker, Kubernetes), and serverless architecture.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data. The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here .

Who We Are

Koch Industries creates and innovates a wide spectrum of products and services that make life better. Our work spans a vast number of industries across the world, including engineered technology, refining, chemicals and polymers, pulp and paper, glass, electronics and many more. Headquartered in Wichita, Kansas, Koch employs 120,000+ employees across the globe.

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits

Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most. Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region. If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities

Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify. Please click here for additional information.

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