Transamerica

Lead Platform Engineer

Transamerica

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: PhiladelphiaColoradoIowaUnited 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