Application Platform Engineer

Role Summary

Responsible for supporting the reliability, performance, security, and continuous improvement of a national-scale transaction and integration platform. The role requires strong technical expertise across platform engineering, DevOps, CI/CD, integration technologies, databases, and modern platform architectures. The successful candidate will contribute to platform evolution, major releases, troubleshooting, automation initiatives, and technology implementations.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the operation, enhancement, and continuous improvement of a national-scale transaction and integration platform.
• Participate in application deployments, upgrades, releases, and platform enhancements.
• Contribute to automation, CI/CD, and operational excellence initiatives.
• Troubleshoot complex technical issues and support root cause analysis.
• Contribute to platform architecture, scalability, resilience, availability, performance, and security improvements.
• Monitor platform health, availability, and performance.
• Evaluate emerging technologies and contribute to platform modernization and continuous improvement.
• Provide technical expertise across application, integration, and platform technologies to support major initiatives and complex implementations.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in platform engineering, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), application administration, or related technical roles.
• Experience delivering and operating production applications, with an understanding of the full application lifecycle from development and deployment through production operations and continuous improvement.
• Strong understanding of DevOps practices, CI/CD, automation, release management, and platform reliability.
• Strong understanding of database technologies and concepts such as schema design, indexing, partitioning, performance optimization, and data lifecycle management.
• Strong understanding of modern platform technologies, including integration and messaging platforms, search and observability solutions, object storage, caching technologies, container platforms, and cloud services.
• Understanding of networking, load balancing, authentication, authorization, and API security concepts.
• Strong analytical, troubleshooting, and problem-solving skills.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills.