Hybrid Platform Engineer

at CoreSite

• Job title: Platform Engineer
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Mid level, Senior
• Salary: $115,000 - $135,000 per year
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Tech skills: AWS, Cloud, Groovy, JavaScript, Jenkins, Maven, Node.js, Oracle, Python, SQL
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Denver, United States

About the role

• Platform Engineer responsible for developing and optimizing a scalable software delivery platform at CoreSite. Collaborating with IT teams to enhance developer productivity and improve system reliability.

Responsibilities

• As a member of CoreSite’s IT Solutions team, the Platform Engineer is responsible for the development and enhancement of a scalable, reliable, and secure software delivery platform.
• This engineer will design, automate, and optimize the platforms that support our developer experience, applications, and services.
• This role will collaborate with teams across our IT organization to enhance developer productivity, improve system reliability, and ensure a smooth path from code to production.

Requirements

• Design, build, and maintain scalable platforms to support the developer experience and system operations.
• Develop automation tools and self-service capabilities that improve developer workflows and reduce operational overhead.
• Ensure platform reliability and performance through monitoring, alerting, and proactive capacity planning.
• Collaborate with software engineering teams to design CI/CD pipelines that service cloud, SaaS, and on-prem systems.
• Implement and enforce best practices for cloud infrastructure and security compliance.
• Manage and optimize infrastructure resources across cloud and on-prem environments.
• Troubleshoot complex platform issues. Drive incident management, root cause analysis, and long-term solutions.
• Continuously evaluate new technologies, tools, and approaches to improve platform capabilities.
• Perform regular releases according to the IT Solutions release calendar
• Assist in supporting the applications and infrastructure that the DevOps Team administers
• Support the QA Engineers in the development of the automated test suite framework
• Promote and demonstrate the behaviors consistent with CoreSite’s culture and 8 Guiding Principles
• Special projects as assigned
• Communication skills, including: communicating at technical and business levels, and the ability to interact with people from all organizational levels
• Self-starting, self-motivated, driven individual
• Ability to pivot easily within a constantly changing Agile environment
• Working experience with multiple software development languages (C#, Python, Node.js, etc.)
• Working experience with CI/CD tools (Jenkins, BitBucket Pipelines, Groovy, Maven, Octopus Deploy, etc.)
• Experience with Salesforce a plus
• Experience with database platforms a plus (SQL Server, Oracle)
• Experience with AWS a plus
• Ability to analyze requirements, retrieve source data, and present accurate results in a timely manner
• Accomplished in using best practices for gathering and documenting complete and detailed requirements

Benefits

• First-day medical insurance through Cigna with generous premium cost coverage
• Dental insurance through Delta Dental
• Vision insurance through VSP
• Telemedicine through MDLive for Cigna
• Healthcare and dependent care flexible spending account (FSA) plans
• Health saving account (HSA) plans for employees participating in the High Deductible Health Plan
• Life, AD&D, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance fully paid by the company
• Voluntary coverage benefits for supplemental life, critical illness, accident, and hospital insurance
• First-day eligibility for 401(k) savings plan through Fidelity, which includes an attractive matching company contribution with a 5% company match
• Discretionary annual bonus and equity incentive plan
• Employee stock purchase plan (ESPP) with a 15% discount
• 16 days of paid time off (PTO), 11 paid company holidays, and additional floating holidays
• Additional paid time off for school events, elder care, volunteering, bereavement, jury duty, voting, parental leave, and disability leave
• Free parking or a company contribution toward a public transit pass
• **Additional Perks:**
• **Wellness Reimbursement Program:** Yearly stipend of $500 for employees and $300 for dependents, up to $800 total for the family
• **Wellness Incentive Program:** Participate in various wellbeing activities to earn up to $450 per year in cash incentives
• **Technology Stipend:** $100 monthly stipend
• **Educational Reimbursement Program:** Work-related learning and development with reimbursement on qualifying degree programs, up to $5,250 per year
• **Giving Back:** Charitable donation matches up to $5,000 per year and nominate organizations for Company Foundation grants
• **Financial Management:** Access to financial coaching, digital tools, and services to manage and pay student loan debt quicker
• **Pet Insurance:** Keep your furry friends healthy and happy
• **Family Planning:** Benefits and services related to fertility, pregnancy, menopause, adoption and surrogacy
• **Employee Assistance Program:** 24x7 service to support family, work, money, health, legal and life challenges
• **Counseling and Caregiving Programs:** Including access to mental health services, licensed counselors, and caregiving tools including membership for finding care
• **Referral Bonus:** Receive a $3,000 cash bonus if referred candidate is hired and meets eligibility requirements
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