Platform Infrastructure Engineer

Job#: 3057826

Job Description:

Platform Infrastructure Engineer

Location: Jersey City, New Jersey (Hybrid)

Alternate Location: Charlotte, North Carolina, Plano, Texas

Role Overview

The individual in this role is responsible for designing and delivering infrastructure tools and services that enable business strategies in accordance with architectural governance, standards, and policies. Operating within a platform engineering team, this role focuses on building and evolving a self-service platform that enables internal technology teams to deploy and operate services securely, consistently, and efficiently in a regulated financial environment. This contributor is essential to the creation of reusable infrastructure services, Terraform modules, and automated delivery pipelines, ensuring integration into a cohesive platform offering.

Key Responsibilities

• Assist in translating business and platform requirements into technical definitions, reference architectures, Terraform modules, and reusable platform patterns.
• Design, build, and maintain Infrastructure as Code using Terraform to provision services in a scalable, consistent, and compliant manner.
• Contribute to the development of a self-service platform, creating standardized golden paths and templates that enable internal teams to deploy infrastructure safely.
• Develop and maintain automation and CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions, including validation, security scanning, and controlled infrastructure deployments.
• Embed security-by-design principles into platform services, ensuring secure defaults through implementation of IAM best practices, encryption standards, and secure network architectures.
• Support the implementation of governance and guardrails, ensuring infrastructure complies with internal security, risk, and regulatory requirements.
• Develop software and automation solutions using Python to eliminate manual processes and improve platform usability, reliability, and operational efficiency.
• Collaborate with Technical Analysts, Infrastructure Engineers, and application teams to ensure solutions integrate effectively with the platform.
• Leverage AI/ML services to accelerate platform development, including enhancing automation, improving developer experience, and enabling intelligent tooling.
• Contribute to observability and operational excellence, including monitoring, alerting, and continuous improvement of platform reliability.
  
  

Required Qualifications

Education: Minimum of a 7-year degree in Computer Science or a related discipline.

Experience: Minimum of 5 years of working experience as a Cloud Automation Engineer, with significant experience writing HashiCorp Terraform configurations and modules in enterprise-scale environments.

Technical Skills: Proficient in DevOps and GitOps models with infrastructure-as-code. Strong knowledge of cloud networking concepts, subnets, routing, load balancing, firewalls, and security. Experience with GitHub, Jenkins, Python scripting, and cloud logging, monitoring, and observability tools.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience working within the financial services industry.
• Experience in various public cloud service providers and technology infrastructure teams.
• Experience in Linux or UNIX system administration.
• Experience with container technologies including Kubernetes, OpenShift, and Docker.
  
  

Everforth Apex is a world-class IT services company that serves thousands of clients across the globe. When you join Everforth Apex, you become part of a team that values innovation, collaboration, and continuous learning. We offer quality career resources, training, certifications, development opportunities, and a comprehensive benefits package. Our commitment to excellence is reflected in many awards, including ClearlyRateds Best of Staffing® in Talent Satisfaction in the United States and Great Place to Work® in the United Kingdom and Mexico.

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Everforth Apex Benefits Overview: Everforth Apex offers a range of supplemental benefits, including medical, dental, vision, life, disability, and other insurance plans that offer an optional layer of financial protection. We offer an ESPP (employee stock purchase program) and a 401K program which allows you to contribute typically within 30 days of starting, with a company match after 12 months of tenure. Everforth Apex also offers a HSA (Health Savings Account on the HDHP plan), a SupportLinc Employee Assistance Program (EAP) with up to 8 free counseling sessions, a corporate discount savings program and other discounts. In terms of professional development, Everforth Apex hosts an on-demand training program, provides access to certification prep and a library of technical and leadership courses/books/seminars once you have 6+ months of tenure, and certification discounts and other perks to associations that include CompTIA and IIBA. Everforth Apex has a dedicated customer service team for our Consultants that can address questions around benefits and other resources, as well as a certified Career Coach. You can access a full list of our benefits, programs, support teams and resources within our ‘Welcome Packet’ as well, which an Everforth Apex team member can provide.

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Everforth Apex is an equal opportunity employer. We do not discriminate or allow discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, creed, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), age, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, genetic information, registered domestic partner status, marital status, disability, status as a crime victim, protected veteran status, political affiliation, union membership, or any other characteristic protected by law. Everforth Apex will consider qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of applicable law. If you have visited our website in search of information on employment opportunities or to apply for a position, and you require an accommodation in using our website for a search or application, please contact our Benefits Department at [email protected] or 804-523-8228. (Do not submit resumes or solicit consultants to this email address). UnitedHealthcare creates and publishes the Transparency in Coverage Machine-Readable Files on behalf of Everforth Apex.