GM
Senior Platform Engineer
full-time•Warren
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Job Description
The Role:
The Senior Platform Engineer will help manage on prem and cloud applications within our HRIT organization.
What You'll Do:
Build and maintain various on prem COTs products on Unix or Windows Systems essential for business operations
Deploy applications as code to the cloud using terraform and similar tools
Assist in application migrations to SAAS products
Create, maintain, and improve automation and operational scripts (Bash, Python, or similar) for deployments, backups, monitoring, rollbacks, and routine maintenance.
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for various applications and services.
Monitor platform health and data pipelines; implement alerting, capacity planning, and performance tuning.
Plan and execute backups, disaster recovery drills, and restore procedures supported applications.
Enforce security best practices: secrets management, role-based access control, patching, vulnerability remediation, and audit logging.
Troubleshoot incidents across integration stack, perform root cause analysis, and produce post-incident reports.
Maintain accurate operational documentation, runbooks, playbooks, and run regular housekeeping tasks.
Mentor junior admins/engineers and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver integration solutions
Your Skills & Abilities (Required Qualifications):
Scripting, Terraform, Linux, Windows Servers, Github, Python, SSO/SAML
5+ years of production systems administration and platform support experience (or equivalent).
Demonstrated engineering expertise in evaluating, designing, and implementing deployment architectures for a variety of complex data and application platforms.
Strong Linux system administration (RHEL/CentOS) and networking fundamentals.
Proficiency with scripting and automation (Bash and one or more: Python, Perl).
Experience with CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, or similar).
Solid understanding of security practices for data platforms (RBAC, secrets management, TLS, patching).
Excellent troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills.
What Will Give You A Competitive Edge (Preferred Qualifications):
Experience in BrowserStack
Experience in OTEL / DataDog
Experience with Lenel Software
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What you'll do
- The Senior Platform Engineer will manage on-prem and cloud applications, build and maintain various products essential for business operations, and deploy applications as code to the cloud. They will also monitor platform health, enforce security best practices, and mentor junior engineers.
About General Motors
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