Platform Engineer

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The Platform Engineer is essential for designing and optimizing infrastructure that supports internal services and platforms within the organization. It involves building resilient and scalable systems to ensure robust infrastructure and enterprise-wide governance. The role focuses on implementing continuous integration and continuous deployment (CI/CD) pipelines and enhancing data platform interoperability. Success is measured by system reliability, efficient software deployment, and seamless technology migrations and integrations. The work impacts the organization by enabling adaptability and operational excellence in a dynamic technological environment.
We are a team that encourages innovation and advocates an agile and open approach, truly working and playing in the Un-carrier way!

Job Responsibilities:

• Designs and develops resilient and scalable infrastructure systems 
  • Own day-to-day operations of hybrid infrastructure supporting T-Mobile’s platform services.
  • Ensure uptime, performance, and security across on-prem, AWS, and Azure environments.
  • Troubleshoot complex infrastructure, configuration, and deployment issues impacting platform reliability.
  • Lead patching, updates, and configuration management with minimal oversight.
  • Participate in on-call rotation and drive improvements in incident response and postmortem practices.
• Optimizes existing infrastructure to enhance functionality and interoperability
  • Ensure system reliability, performance, and security through proactive monitoring, automation, and performance tuning
  • Troubleshoot complex platform and application integration issues impacting performance or availability
  • Develop, execute, and tune DML logic — queries, data migrations, transformations, and batch operations — for performance and reliability
  • Drive incident analysis and reliability reviews to improve operational posture and system resilience
• Implements and maintains CI/CD pipelines for efficient software deployment 
  • Support containerization and orchestration technologies, including Docker and Kubernetes, to standardize deployment practices
  • Design, develop, and maintain automation using Python, Bash, or PowerShell to increase operational efficiency.
  • Implement and manage Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) using Terraform, Ansible, or equivalent frameworks.
  • Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for platform infrastructure and environment deployments (GitLab CI/CD, Jenkins).
  • Establish documentation standards and reusable modules for consistent automation delivery.
• Collaborates within Agile teams to drive continuous improvement and operational excellence 
  • Contribute to Agile ceremonies, driving infrastructure readiness and delivery excellence
  • Advocate for DevOps and automation best practices across engineering teams
  • Participate in on-call rotations and lead incident resolution and root cause analysis
  • Lead efforts in automation for self-healing, scaling, and performance tuning
• Facilitates seamless migrations and integrations across different technologies
  • Develop and manage observability solutions leveraging Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, or ELK
  • Implement proactive monitoring, log analysis, and metrics-based alerting for early issue detection
  • Collaborate with SREs to improve mean time to resolution (MTTR) and overall platform reliability
  • Execute and optimize DML operations within Postgres, Oracle, and Cassandra environments under existing organizational DDL structures
  • Develop and maintain integrations with Kafka for event-driven data pipelines, message publishing, and asynchronous workloads
  • Implement caching strategies (Redis, in-memory caches) to reduce query latency and improve application performance
  • Support database performance tuning, data ingestion, and transformation activities aligned with enterprise governance standards
  • Partner across engineering, DevOps, and data teams to design scalable solutions and resolve complex issues

Education and Work Experience:

• Bachelor's Degree plus 2 years of related work experience OR combination of education and experience deemed equivalent (Required)
• Acceptable areas of study include Computer Science, Data Science or Related Field (Preferred)
• 2-4+ years - Designing and developing scalable and resilient infrastructure systems
• 2-4+ years - Implementing and managing CI/CD pipelines for enterprise applications
• 2-4+ years - Integrating and optimizing data platforms for interoperability across various technologies

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Hands-on development experience using Python, Bash, or PowerShell
• Experience with observability solutions leveraging Prometheus, Grafana, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor, or ELK

Licenses and Certifications:

• Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA): Certification that validates the ability to design, build, configure, and expose native cloud applications for Kubernetes, an essential skill for Platform Engineers working on scalable systems. (Preferred)
• AWS Certified Solutions Architect: Certification demonstrating proficiency in designing distributed systems and applications on the AWS platform, which is crucial for Platform Engineers involved in cloud infrastructure and migrations. (Preferred)
• Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) Certification indicating advanced knowledge in information security, including system architecture and governance, important for ensuring the security and integrity of platform infrastructures. (Preferred)

• At least 18 years of age
• Legally authorized to work in the United States

Travel:
Travel Required (Yes/No): No
DOT Regulated:
DOT Regulated Position (Yes/No): No
Safety Sensitive Position (Yes/No): No
 

Total Target Cash Earnings Opportunity: $93,380 - $168,360

National Base Pay Range: $81,200 - $146,400

The Total Target Cash Earnings Opportunity represents the expected total cash compensation for this role at target performance, combining base salary and annual incentive opportunity. Actual earnings may be higher or lower depending on individual performance and overall company results. 

The base pay range reflects the compensation component of this opportunity. The candidate’s actual pay will be based on various factors, such as work location, qualifications, and experience, so the actual starting pay will vary within this range. To find the pay range for this role based on hiring location, https://paylookup.t-mobile.com/paylookup?reqID=REQ361405¶dox=1

At T-Mobile, employees in regular, non-temporary roles are eligible for an annual bonus or periodic sales incentive or bonus, based on their role. Corporate employees are eligible for a year-end bonus based on individual and/or company performance and which is set at a percentage of the employee’s eligible earnings in the prior year. Certain positions in Customer Care are eligible for monthly bonuses based on individual and/or team performance. The incentive component included in the Total Target Cash Earnings Opportunity reflects target performance. Actual earnings included in the Total Target Cash Earnings Opportunity reflect target performance; actual payouts may vary. 
At T-Mobile, our benefits exemplify the spirit of One Team, Together! A big part of how we care for one another is working to ensure our benefits evolve to meet the needs of our team members. Full and part-time employees have access to the same benefits when eligible. We cover all of the bases, offering medical, dental and vision insurance, a flexible spending account, 401(k), employee stock grants, employee stock purchase plan, paid time off and up to 12 paid holidays - which total about 4 weeks for new full-time employees and about 2.5 weeks for new part-time employees annually - paid parental and family leave, family building benefits, back-up care, enhanced family support, childcare subsidy, tuition assistance, college coaching, short- and long-term disability, voluntary AD&D coverage, voluntary accident coverage, voluntary life insurance, voluntary disability insurance, and voluntary long-term care insurance. We don't stop there - eligible employees can also receive mobile service & home internet discounts, pet insurance, and access to commuter and transit programs! To learn about T-Mobile’s amazing benefits, check out www.t-mobilebenefits.com.

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