Senior Platform Engineer

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We are seeking an experienced and highly skilled Senior Platform Engineer to drive the design, development, and scaling of our cloud infrastructure, observability platforms, and Dev Ops platforms. As a senior platform engineer, you will play a critical role in defining best practices and ensuring the reliability, performance, and scalability of our systems.

Our team manages Georgia Pacific’s multi-cloud platforms, focusing on modernization, optimization, maintenance of cloud native workloads. We collaborate with engineers and leaders to address issues affecting team performance by implementing tools, processes, or products that streamline daily activities.

This role is based in the Atlanta Georgia-Pacific HQ. The expectation is usually three days in office per week.

This role is not eligible for VISA sponsorship now or in the future. If you currently hold a VISA, you are not eligible for this role.

• Design, implement, and optimize cloud infrastructure (AWS and Azure)
• Develop and enforce cloud architecture patterns to enhance scalability, cost efficiency, and security
• Automate provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management of cloud resources using Infrastructure as Code (IaC) tools such as Terraform or Cloud Formation
• Define and implement best practices for high availability, disaster recovery, and incident management for the platform
• Design and implement modular Git Hub Action workflows and reusable composite actions to automate application build, test, and deployment processes
• Build and maintain comprehensive observability solutions, including monitoring, logging, and distributed tracing systems
• Work with teams to instrument applications and services for metrics, logs, and traces using tools like Grafana, Loki, and Open Telemetry
• Experience configuring alerting to detect and resolve incidents quickly for critical applications

• Proven experience administering a cloud platform (AWS, Azure), with an emphasis on enterprise governance, support, automation and development
• Experience creating and maintaining infrastructure using Infrastructure-as-Code tool like Terraform, Cloud Formation, or CDK
• Experience with Git Hub Actions
• Experience with observability tools, technology, and processes (i.e. Open Telemetry, Grafana)
• Experience collaborating with cross-functional teams to understand requirements and deliver solutions
• Must have legal authorization to work permanently in the United States for any employer without requiring a visa transfer or visa sponsorship

• Bachelor’s degree in IT discipline
• Amazon Web Services certification
• Experience working with distributed global teams
• Previous experience managing Kubernetes clusters on AWS using EKS

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.

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As a Koch company and a leading manufacturer of bath tissue, paper towels, paper-based packaging, cellulose, specialty fibers, building products and much more, Georgia-Pacific works to meet evolving needs of customers worldwide with quality products. In addition to the products we make, we operate one of the largest recycling businesses. Our more than 30,000 employees in over 150 locations are empowered to innovate every day – to make everyday products even better.

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,…