Senior Platform Engineer (Infrastructure DevOps)

Job Description

A large oil and gas company is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead infrastructure automation and platform engineering initiatives within the Midstream IT organization. This role is ideal for an engineer who combines deep infrastructure expertise with modern DevOps and Infrastructure-as-Code practices. Important: This is not a cloud-first DevOps role. The team is looking for candidates with strong experience supporting on-premises infrastructure, data centers, and highly segmented network environments, while driving automation, reliability, and self-service platform capabilities. What You'll Do

• Design and implement infrastructure automation, CI/CD pipelines, and platform engineering solutions.
• Build and maintain Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) frameworks for provisioning and managing enterprise infrastructure.
• Drive platform reliability, scalability, performance optimization, and operational excellence.
• Lead troubleshooting, root cause analysis, disaster recovery planning, and system resiliency initiatives.
• Develop self-service infrastructure capabilities, automated provisioning solutions, and platform tooling.
• Partner with architects, engineering teams, and business stakeholders to define platform strategy and roadmaps. Provide technical leadership, mentor engineers, and lead design and architecture reviews.

4 days onsite in Denver, CO, Findlay, OH, or San Antonio, TX Salary Range: Grade 11: $106,900 - $133,700 – 12% - ACB Grade 12: $122,900 - $153,600 – 15% ACB 401k: $1.17 for every $1, up to 6%, 100% vested on start date Pension: 7%, 9%, or 11% contribution, vested after completing 3 yrs of service

Skills and Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in IT, Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent experience.

• 5+ years of platform, infrastructure, systems, or DevOps engineering experience.

• Strong experience with:

• Data centers, servers, storage, virtualization, and enterprise networking

• On-premises and highly segmented environments

• Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Ansible, OpenTofu, CloudFormation, or similar)

• CI/CD pipelines and automation

• Platform engineering and self-service infrastructure solutions

• Monitoring, reliability, and production operations Cross-functional leadership and stakeholder engagement

• Azure DevOps, GitLab, Jenkins, NetBox, Itential, or NetBrain

• Kubernetes platforms and API-driven provisioning

• Site Reliability Engineering (SRE) practices, including SLIs/SLOs

• Software-defined networking (SDN), Network as Code, and Zero Trust architectures Operational Technology (OT) environments and PERA model knowledge

We are a company committed to creating diverse and inclusive environments where people can bring their full, authentic selves to work every day. We are an equal employment opportunity/affirmative action employer that believes everyone matters. Qualified candidates will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, ethnicity, religion, sex (including pregnancy), sexual orientation, gender identity and expression, marital status, national origin, ancestry, genetic factors, age, disability, protected veteran status, military or uniformed service member status, or any other status or characteristic protected by applicable laws, regulations, and ordinances. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or the recruiting process, please send a request to [email protected].