Platform Engineer

Dearborn, Michigan

Platform Engineer #1043620

Employees in this job function are focused on developing and maintaining reusable software components that serve the needs of product developers in the organization. They are responsible for designing, implementing, integrating and maintaining the underlying infrastructure and software applications that support developer productivity and self‑service.

• Collaborate with enterprise architects, software architects, software engineering teams, etc. to design the platform infrastructure and tools encompassing servers, networks, storage, databases, cloud services, etc.
• Implement and manage the infrastructure that supports the platform tools and ensuring that upgrades, security patches and other performance improvements are regularly performed.
• Evaluate cloud providers, containerization solutions and other complex technologies to deeply understand the configurations available and create abstractions of common configurations that can be utilized easily by application teams for their workloads.
• Write and execute automated Infrastructure as Code scripts and utilize processes like CI/CD to streamline and automate how the platform infrastructure is provisioned, configured and managed to improve consistency, traceability and repeatability.
• Integrate performance and monitoring best practices including QoS and SLA metrics to scale platform applications and managed services automatically due to demand.
• Incorporate security and disaster recovery best practices into the infrastructure applications by integrating access control, identity management, logging/monitoring, public/private network configurations, data encryption, storage backup and disaster recovery, etc.
• Facilitate the integration of enterprise managed software configurations into deployment pipelines managed by application teams to ensure approved configurations and best practices around security, networking, logging & monitoring, performance & scale, etc. are applied.
• Advocate feedback with service providers and developers, to ensure the platform continues to grow and evolve to meet their needs.

• Scripting
• Automation
• Root Cause Analysis
• Troubleshooting (Problem Solving)
• Cloud Architecture
• IT Solutions
• Git Hub
• Cloud Infrastructure
• Change Management
• Technical Analysis
• Developer
• Tekton
• Utilization Management
• Kubernetes

• Ansible
• GCP
• Dynatrace
• Power Shell
• Access Controls
• Python
• Information Security
• VMware

• Engineer Exp:
  Prac. In 2 coding lang. or adv.
• In 1 lang.
• 6+ years in IT;
• 4+ years in development

• Associate Degree
• College Senior

• Certification Program
• Bachelor's Degree

• Conduct capacity planning and forecasting for the Open Shift Virtualization platform, including compute, memory, storage, and network resources, to ensure scalability and prevent resource exhaustion.
• Analyze resource utilization trends and make recommendations for infrastructure scaling, consolidation, or optimization.
• Collaborate with application teams and stakeholders to understand future demand and project capacity needs.
• Develop and maintain capacity models and reports to support strategic planning.
• Develop automation solutions (scripts, playbooks) for repetitive OSV tasks, including configuration changes, VM management, auditing, remediation and integration with ticketing systems.
• Leverage automation to enable delivering operator updates and changes efficiently at scale.
• Implement Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) principles and practices to improve overall platform stability, performance, and operational efficiency.
• Role Based Access Control deployment and auditing.
• Namespace and Resource Quota management.
• Implement and maintain comprehensive end‑to‑end observability solutions (monitoring, logging, tracing) for the OSV environment, including integration with tools like Dynatrace and Prometheus/Grafana.
• Explore and implement Event Driven Architecture (EDA) for enhanced real‑time monitoring and response.
• Develop capabilities to flag and report abnormalities and identify "blind spots" in observability.
• Perform deep dive Root Cause Analysis (RCA), potentially…