Senior Platform Engineer

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* Job Description:

** At Piper Sandler, we connect capital with opportunity to build a better future.

We believe that diverse teams with unique backgrounds, skills and experiences yield more innovative solutions. This is reflected in our commitment to engage, hire, and retain bright, committed people to work in partnership within an inclusive environment that allows each person to achieve personal success and add value to our teams and communities.

Piper Sandler is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer in our Minneapolis, MN or New York, NY office.

Piper Sandler is expanding its cloud capabilities to support the firm’s growing business and development demands. We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer who will act as a senior technical resource and subject matter expert for cloud engineering.

This individual will provide hands-on technical guidance, architectural expertise, and day-to-day support, ensuring developers adopt secure, scalable, and well-designed cloud solutions. You will play a pivotal role in modernizing our deployment strategy by driving the adoption of Git Hub-based Git Ops workflows, integrating Orca Security for continuous compliance, and establishing robust observability through Datadog.

A primary focus of this role will be building out a comprehensive Service Catalog, creating "paved roads" that allow developers to deploy pre-validated, secure, and observable infrastructure with minimal friction.

This role offers the opportunity to
** shape the future of cloud adoption
** at Piper Sandler, working in a collaborative, forward-looking engineering team. You will play a critical role in bringing structure and expertise to an emerging Platform Engineering function while engaging directly with developers to enable business success.
** Responsibilities**###
** Service Catalog & "Paved Road" Engineering
*** Design and build a self-service Service Catalog of "golden images" and infrastructure templates that allow developers to spin up resources quickly and autonomously.
* Ensure all catalog items have "baked-in" security controls (Orca), observability (Datadog), and governance (Service Now) by default, removing the burden of configuration from application teams.
* Treat the platform as a product: continuously gather developer feedback to refine catalog offerings, reducing lead time for new project spin-ups.###
** Automation, Git Ops & Infrastructure as Code
*** Build and maintain automation tools, templates, and frameworks (Terraform, ARM/Bicep, Cloud Formation, etc.) to accelerate cloud adoption.
* Design and manage Git Ops workflows using Git Hub Actions to ensure infrastructure changes are declarative, version-controlled, and automatically reconciled.
* Integrate Service Now Change Management directly into Git Ops pipelines, ensuring that automated deployments are gated by valid change requests and approvals.
* Integrate Orca Security scanning directly into CI/CD pipelines to detect vulnerabilities, misconfigurations, and compliance issues early in the development lifecycle.
* Implement comprehensive observability pipelines using Datadog to ensure all cloud resources are monitored, logged, and traceable from deployment to production.###
** Best Practices & Governance
*** Define, document, and evangelize standards for cloud networking, identity, automation, and security.
* Establish governance policies where Orca Security findings trigger automated gates to block deployments that do not meet risk acceptance criteria.
* Automate the creation and closure of Service Now change tickets within the deployment pipeline to reduce manual overhead while maintaining auditability.
* Enforce "secure by design" principles by ensuring that only approved, hardened images and modules from the Service Catalog are used in production environments.
* Ensure all cloud deployments align with enterprise security controls, compliance frameworks, and regulatory requirements.###
** Developer Engagement & Support
*** Act as a visible and accessible point of contact for walk-ups, ad-hoc design sessions, and day-to-day developer questions.
* Bridge Platform Engineering and Development teams, ensuring consistent alignment on cloud…