Lead Platforms Engineer - DevOps Automation Engineer

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Position Summary

The Lead Platforms Engineer will be a key technical leader within the Platform Automation team under Midstream IT, driving the transformation of infrastructure platform automation initiatives. This role blends deep technical expertise with strategic leadership to enhance Infrastructure Platform performance, reliability, and innovation across the Midstream IT landscape. The Lead Platforms Engineer will be responsible for establishing and maintaining platform standards, resolving complex technical challenges, directing strategic implementation, and developing automation frameworks that enable data-driven decision-making. The Lead Platforms Engineer will lead the design and implementation of Infrastructure Automation, CI/CD for infrastructure operations, Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevSecOps, and Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC) processes. Provide technical leadership in Software-Defined Networking (SDN), Network as Code, Software-Defined WAN (SD-WAN), and Zero Trust Network Architecture.  Additionally, this role will provide technical guidance for platform design and evaluation while fostering a knowledge-sharing culture through structured frameworks.

Success in this role requires a balance between hands-on technical leadership and strategic vision, collaborating closely with senior management, product teams, architects, and engineering teams to shape the future of Midstream IT’s platform automation strategy. The ideal candidate is a highly skilled platform engineer with a passion for automation, infrastructure as code, and self-service platform enablement.

The Lead Platforms Engineer should balance hands-on technical leadership with strategic vision, collaborating with senior management while mentoring technical teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Establishes and enforces performance monitoring standards, policies, and best practices across the organization. Collaborates with cross-functional teams to architect scalable and high-performance platforms & systems, ensuring optimal resource utilization and continuous performance improvement.
• Serves as a subject matter expert in prioritizing and resolving complex critical issues, collaborates with senior management to develop long-term support and troubleshooting strategies. Designs and implements comprehensive support frameworks and methodologies and leads Vendor Management activities to drive the engagement and resolution of highly complex and critical technical issues related to infrastructure systems. Drives continuous improvement initiatives for system tuning and optimization.
• Provides strategic direction for platform & system disaster recovery including (but not limited to) site failover, application-level failover, data center strategy, and cloud initiatives.
• Defines strategic metrics and reporting frameworks to assess platforms & systems performance, capacity, and efficiency; leads the development of advanced analytics solutions; presents insights and recommendations to senior management; drives continuous improvement initiatives based on data analysis.
• Collaborates with architects and stakeholders to define platform & system requirements and provides technical expertise. Conducts in-depth analysis and evaluation of new technologies and tools for platform & system design and configuration. Leads ongoing rationalization with original design and configuration and recommends updates to standards.
• Develops and implements a strategic knowledge management framework, leveraging advanced tools and technologies. Drives continuous improvement in knowledge management processes, ensuring easy accessibility and relevance of information for the team and the wider organization. Drives knowledge sharing culture by organizing training sessions, mentoring junior engineers, and encouraging cross-team collaboration.

Education and Experience

• Bachelor's Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience.
• 7+ years of relevant platforms engineer experience.
• Preferred 10+ years of experience in Networking, Compute, Storage, Infrastructure as Code (IaC), Configuration Management, Identity & Access Management (IAM), and/or Platform Development.
• Preferred candidates will have:
  • Experience in Operational Technology and a solid understanding of PERA model.
  • Experience in Azure DevOps, GitLab, Netbrain, Netbox, Itential, Jenkins, or similar tools for continuous integration and deployment.

Skills

• Cloud Infrastructure Management – Setting up, configuring, monitoring, and optimizing the components of cloud infrastructure.
• Computer Networking – A system in which multiple computers are connected to each other to share information and resources.
• Continuous Improvement Mindset – Identifies and leads opportunities for continuous improvement and value creation, both incremental and large-scale.
• Cybersecurity Risk Management – The process of developing cyber risk assessment and treatment techniques that can effectively pre-empt and identify significant security loopholes and weaknesses, demonstrating the business risks associated with these loopholes and providing risk treatment and prioritization strategies to effectively address the cyber-related risks, threats and vulnerabilities, ensuring appropriate levels of protection, confidentiality, integrity and privacy in alignment with the security framework.
• DevSecOps – A set of practices that automates the integration of security at every phase of the software development lifecycle, from initial design through integration, testing, deployment, and software delivery, with an aim towards shortening the systems development lifecycle as well as continuous delivery and a security first approach.
• General Programming – Applies a computer language to communicate with computers using a set of instructions and to automate the execution of tasks. Python - REST API - YAML - XML - YANG - JSON
• Infrastructure as Code – The process of managing and provisioning infrastructure through code instead of through manual processes.
• IT Infrastructure Management – Planning, design, delivery and control of information technology infrastructure.
• Performance Monitoring – The process of measuring the performance of a system in real time in order to determine problems and identify other factors that may cause problems in the future.
• Policy Management – The process of creating, implementing and maintaining policies and procedures within an organization.
• Process Automations – Also known as business automation or digital transformation, this is the technology-enabled automation of complex business processes. It can streamline a business for simplicity, achieve digital transformation, increase service quality, improve service delivery or contain costs. It consists of integrating applications, restructuring labor resources and using software applications throughout the organization.
• Service Delivery Management – The manner in which an organization provides users access to IT services, which include applications, data storage and other business resources.
• Strategic Outlook – Examines issues, generates ideas creates future scenarios and develops plans with a long-term perspective. Ensures short-term goals support long-term strategy and that organizational/functional strategy aligns with and supports MPC’s overall business strategy.
• System Administration – Performs a variety of functions including user management, system monitoring, system configuration, performance tuning, backup and recovery, and access control.
• System Platform – A system platform refers to the underlying foundation or framework that supports and manages the operation of software applications and hardware components within a computing environment. It provides a standardized and cohesive infrastructure, allowing for the development, deployment, and integration of various technologies and services.
• System Testing – The process of testing conducted on a complete integrated system to evaluate the system's compliance with its specified requirements.
• Systems Integration – The process of linking together various IT systems, services and/or software to enable all of them to work functionally together.
• Troubleshooting – The act or process of discovering and resolving problems, disputes, or mechanical issues through a systematic, usually iterative, approach

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
Bachelor’s Degree in Information Technology, related field or equivalent experience.
7+ years of relevant experience

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Location:

Findlay, Ohio

Job Requisition ID:

00016044

Pay Min/Max:

$137,900.00 - $206,800.00 Salary

Grade:

13

Location Address:

539 S Main St

Additional locations:

Denver, Colorado, San Antonio, Texas

Education:

Bachelors: Information Technology

Employee Group:

Full time

Employee Subgroup:

Regular

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