
Lead Platform Engineer
Transamerica
full-time
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Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Philadelphia • Colorado • Iowa • United States
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Salary
💰 $125,000 - $160,000 per year
Job Level
About the role
- Lead the design, development, and evolution of monitoring solutions in support of IT operations systems, infrastructure, and applications, Cloud and On premises.
- Provide technical leadership for business and technical analysis and architectural reviews with customers.
- Lead and continuously improve enterprise scale continuous integration/continuous delivery (CI/CD) processes and pipelines.
- Drive strategy and implementation of automated monitoring and alerting across platforms and services.
- Oversee the design and development of ingest pipelines, visualizations, and dashboard capabilities for structured and unstructured data.
- Lead the design and implementation of triggered alert functionality, including on screen alerts and event integrations with ITSM and Event Management Platforms.
- Provide escalation support and leadership for day-to-day Request and Incident ticket work as necessary.
- Lead collaboration with stakeholders to gather requirements, develop solution designs, and ensure scalability, resiliency, and efficiency of platform architectures.
- Establish and govern system guidelines, process documentation, and training materials for the organization.
- Proactively assess and lead responses to emerging requirements and ambiguous technology decisions.
- Lead and coordinate IT and business unit projects related to platform and collaboration solutions, including acquisitions, divestitures, and migrations.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, a related field or equivalent education/experience and 8–10+ years of related work experience
- Demonstrated ability to lead the design and enforcement of monitoring standards in collaboration with application teams (AppDynamics, Elastic Stack, CloudWatch, Site24x7)
- Extensive experience architecting, engineering, and scaling distributed telemetry pipelines (Elastic ingestion, data normalization, dashboards)
- Expert level proficiency configuring alert normalization, enrichment, and correlation patterns at enterprise scale
- Advanced experience with the Open Integration Hub, webhook based and API driven event ingestion
- Deep understanding of the BigPanda incident lifecycle, correlation models, and automated routing to ServiceNow
- Expert understanding of logs, metrics, traces, and observability concepts (APM, RUM, synthetic monitoring)
- Proven ability to design, configure, and optimize AI driven workflows (automated incident analysis, similar incidents, change risk scoring)
- Strong familiarity with vector DB concepts, enrichment pipelines, and generative AI guardrails
- Advanced knowledge of SSO, OAuth, API Gateway patterns, and secured data flows
- Expert level AWS experience (Lambda, S3, API Gateway, CloudWatch, IAM)
- Demonstrated ability to interpret telemetry, identify patterns proactively, and influence engineering outcomes
- Advanced AI Prompt Engineering Proficiency
- Extensive experience interacting with large language models and incorporating them into platform workflows
- Proven experience as a Lead Platform Engineer or similar role (i.e. M365, AWS, or Azure Engineer).
- Expert understanding of cloud technologies, DevOps processes, and large-scale automation of services.
- Extensive experience with CI/CD tools and practices (i.e. Jenkins, Azure Pipelines, etc.).
- Advanced experience with automation and scripting tools (i.e. PowerShell, Graph API, etc.)
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Hard Skills & Tools
monitoring solutionscontinuous integrationcontinuous deliveryautomated monitoringdata ingestion pipelinesalert normalizationAPI integrationAI driven workflowscloud technologiesDevOps processes
Soft Skills
technical leadershipcollaborationproblem-solvingcommunicationstakeholder engagementprocess documentationtrainingstrategic thinkingrequirement gatheringinfluencing outcomes