Senior Platform Engineer

🔥 19 hours ago

🇺🇸 United States – Remote

💵 $150k - $165k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟠 Senior

🏗️ Platform Engineer

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Flexential

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501 - 1000 employees

Founded 2000

🤝 B2B

🏢 Enterprise

📡 Telecommunications

B2B • Enterprise • Telecommunications

Flexential is a US-based provider of data center infrastructure and hybrid IT services. The FlexAnywhere® platform combines colocation, cloud (public/private/hybrid), connectivity/interconnection, data protection, managed and professional services to support enterprise workloads — including high-density GPU and AI/ML deployments. Flexential operates 40+ data centers across 18 US markets (3M+ sq. ft. footprint) and a 100+ Gbps network backbone, and positions itself as a B2B partner for enterprises needing resilient, scalable, and interconnected infrastructure.

📋 Description

• Build and operate Flexential’s IT platforms, including observability, DevOps, ITSM incident and release management, and integration technologies • Develop and manage critical platform subsystems for high availability, operational resiliency, security, scalability, and native-AI enablement • Deploy Kubernetes workloads, author Terraform modules, build Ansible playbooks, and build GitLab pipelines • Design and operationally manage automated, resilient, secure, self-healing platforms serving internal and customer business capabilities • Develop and manage the Observability OpenTelemetry Central Backend Stack using Grafana Enterprise, Mimir, Loki, Tempo, and Alertmanager on Kubernetes/RKE2 via Helm and GitLab CI/CD • Build and manage IaC and CI/CD for automated provisioning and deployment using Terraform, Ansible AWX, ArgoCD, and Helm • Develop and manage OpenTelemetry Prometheus scrape profile libraries, including SNMP, REST API, and cloud provider exporters • Develop AIOps capabilities such as anomaly detection integrations, Alertmanager event correlation rules, and synthetic monitoring patterns • Configure and maintain Zabbix auto-discovery and Prometheus service discovery integration • Build and harden Edge Stack deployments per data center site using GitOps templates • Integrate Alertmanager with ServiceNow through webhook routing, ticket enrichment, auto-close logic, and escalation policies • Maintain platform security through Conjur/CyberArk secret injection, mTLS, and Grafana Enterprise RBAC • Author and maintain Grafana dashboards in JSON/GitLab • Mentor mid-level engineers, lead code reviews, and establish engineering standards • Represent platform engineering in cross-functional architecture reviews and executive-level program updates • Perform other duties as required and assigned

🎯 Requirements

• DevOps / Automation: 5+ years in a production environment, including Kubernetes (RKE2/k3s), Helm chart deployment, systemd services, and Docker/containerd • LGTM Stack Development and Configuration: 4+ years with Grafana, Mimir, Loki, and Tempo configuration, tuning, dashboarding, and production operations; Prometheus required • Senior-level Python / Scripting frameworks: 5+ years, including automation scripts, exporter development, GitLab pipeline scripting, and REST API integrations • GitOps / CI/CD: 5+ years, including GitLab CI/CD pipeline authoring; Terraform and Ansible as primary IaC tools; ArgoCD or Flux preferred • AIOps / Observability Engineering: 2+ years, including Alertmanager rule authoring, anomaly detection integration, event correlation, and noise reduction techniques • Working infrastructure (Linux/VM) management knowledge: 5+ years, including Linux administration, VMware vCenter/VCF experience, NetApp storage management, and network fundamentals (SNMP, TCP/IP) • Secrets Management: 2+ years with CyberArk/Conjur, HashiCorp Vault, or equivalent runtime secret injection patterns • Minimal travel may be required • Experience and/or knowledge of ITSM processes and workflow automation preferred • Hands-on experience or working knowledge of Boomi integrations PaaS (iPaaS) technologies preferred • Experience working with BAS/BMS systems in a Datacenter/OT environment preferred • Hands-on experience with AWS products in a Well-Architected Framework and multi-account model preferred • Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States • Applicants must reside in a state where the company maintains employment eligibility at the time of hire and throughout employment

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Telehealth, Dental and Vision • 401(k) • Health Savings Accounts (HSA) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSA) • Life and AD&D • Short Term and Long-Term disability • Flex Paid Time Off (PTO) • Leave of Absence • Employee Assistance Program • Wellness Program • Rewards and Recognition Program