Sr. Platform Engineer

Your Job

As a Sr Platform Engineer, you will be a senior technical contributor on the team responsible for our Kubernetes based enterprise platform that enables application development, deployment, and management across environments. You will design and implement platform capabilities, lead complex troubleshooting and improvement efforts, and raise the engineering bar across the team.

You will partner closely with product and engineering teams to keep the platform stable, scalable, and secure, while continuously advancing our automation, reliability, and security practices. You will also mentor other engineers and help shape technical direction within the team.

Our Team

The Platform Engineering Team is dedicated to hosting and managing a reliable, secure platform in the cloud to support all enterprise applications and users. We are accountable for delivering stable platform services by leveraging a diverse set of tools and providing comprehensive support across the organization.

Committed to collaboration, we work as a cohesive global team to break down silos, harness individual and collective strengths, and drive innovation that creates a competitive advantage and exceptional value for our customers.

What You Will Do

• Design, build, and operate stable, efficient platform infrastructure and cloud environments across development, testing, and production, including the tooling and automation teams depend on.
• Drive a consistent DevOps approach across the team by building, evolving, and owning CI/CD pipelines and deployment automation, and helping other teams adopt them effectively.
• Design, deploy, and operate a highly available, company-wide AI gateway that provides secure, standardized access to approved AI models, with capabilities such as model routing, provider abstraction, failover, rate limiting, and usage quotas.
• Develop authentication and authorization frameworks for AI services, including models, MCP servers, and agent-to-agent communication, along with guardrails for sensitive data, logging, and responsible AI usage.
• Provide observability into AI usage, latency, token consumption, and cost, and integrate the gateway with internal developer platforms, applications, and agents while minimizing dependence on any single AI vendor.
• Strengthen platform and application security throughout the deployment lifecycle by applying security standards, hardening defaults, managing identity and access, and partnering with security teams.
• Lead complex troubleshooting and own major incidents end to end, from diagnosis and root cause analysis to durable fixes and improved reliability and response processes.
• Partner with Architects to align platform capabilities with the broader technical direction and architectural standards.
• Contribute to backlog refinement and review, ensuring acceptance criteria are clearly defined and delivered.
• Mentor other platform engineers, raise the bar on code, design, and operational quality, and contribute to the team's technical roadmap.
• Create and maintain clear documentation for platform components, runbooks, and engineering standards.

Who You Are (Basic Qualifications)

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, information technology, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of hands-on platform, DevOps, SRE, or cloud infrastructure engineering experience.
• Strong experience with Kubernetes as part of a broader cloud-native architecture, enabling scalable and reliable platform services.
• Deep background in DevOps practices, including designing, implementing, and operating automated CI/CD pipelines for efficient and reliable software delivery across multiple environments.
• Skilled in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform (or equivalent) to provision and manage cloud infrastructure consistently and securely.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language (e.g., Python, Go, Bash) for automation, integrations, and platform tooling.
• Solid understanding of security standards and best practices, and how to apply them across the platform and deployment lifecycle.
• Strong experience with Git or other version control systems and modern branching/release workflows.
• Excellent teamwork and communication skills, with the ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders, and to explain technical trade-offs clearly.
• Strong documentation, analytical, and problem-solving skills.
• In-depth understanding of Agile methodologies, including Scrum and Kanban.

What Will Put You Ahead

• Application development experience — prior experience building or contributing to production applications, and the ability to bring an application-developer perspective to platform tooling, APIs, and integrations.
• Experience working with monitoring and observability tooling, including the GLTM stack (Grafana, Loki, Tempo, Mimir), to support platform reliability and developer self-service.
• Experience with multiple major cloud providers (AWS, Azure, or GCP).
• Relevant certifications, such as Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA) or cloud-specific certifications.
• Experience working in high-performing Agile teams that leverage tools such as GitLab and Jira to manage priorities and governance.
• A track record of incrementally evolving platforms and tooling to better support the organization’s strategy.
• Knowledge and understanding of SDLC methodology and agile software development.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and assess and adjust quickly to changing priorities.
• A drive for improvement and an inclination to thoughtfully challenge the status quo.

In Wichita, For this role, we anticipate paying $125,000 - $150,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

In Lisle, For this role, we anticipate paying $140,000 - $165,000 per year. This role is eligible for variable pay, issued as a monetary bonus or in another form.

At Koch companies, we are entrepreneurs. This means we openly challenge the status quo, find new ways to create value and get rewarded for our individual contributions. Any compensation range provided for a role is an estimate determined by available market data.

The actual amount may be higher or lower than the range provided considering each candidate's knowledge, skills, abilities, and geographic location. If you have questions, please speak to your recruiter about the flexibility and detail of our compensation philosophy.

Hiring Philosophy

All Koch companies value diversity of thought, perspectives, aptitudes, experiences, and backgrounds. We are Military Ready and Second Chance employers. Learn more about our hiring philosophy here.

Who We Are

At Koch, employees are empowered to do what they do best to make life better. Learn how our business philosophy helps employees unleash their potential while creating value for themselves and the company.

Our Benefits Our goal is for each employee, and their families, to live fulfilling and healthy lives. We provide essential resources and support to build and maintain physical, financial, and emotional strength - focusing on overall wellbeing so you can focus on what matters most.

Our benefits plan includes - medical, dental, vision, flexible spending and health savings accounts, life insurance, ADD, disability, retirement, paid vacation/time off, educational assistance, and may also include infertility assistance, paid parental leave and adoption assistance. Specific eligibility criteria is set by the applicable Summary Plan Description, policy or guideline and benefits may vary by geographic region.

If you have questions on what benefits apply to you, please speak to your recruiter.

Additionally, everyone has individual work and personal needs. We seek to enable the best work environment that helps you and the business work together to produce superior results.

Equal Opportunities Equal Opportunity Employer, including disability and protected veteran status. Except where prohibited by state law, some offers of employment are conditioned upon successfully passing a drug test. This employer uses E-Verify.

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