Job Title: Senior Platform Engineer Location: Plano, TX 75024 (Hybrid) – 1–2 days per week onsite (Candidate must be located within a 60-mile radius of a Bread Financial location. - No California candidates.
Duration: 12-month contract (Temp-to-Hire.) Start Date: Targeting Oct 2026 Pay Rate: $64.28/hr. on W2 Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision. Hours: 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM as per time zone
Job Description: Job Summary
We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to lead the design, development, and evolution of scalable platform services, cloud-native solutions, automation frameworks, and developer enablement capabilities. The ideal candidate will have strong experience in platform engineering, cloud technologies, DevOps, automation, infrastructure as code, and modern software engineering practices.
This role will also focus heavily on AI-enabled engineering, intelligent automation, AI agents, and developer productivity across the AI-Driven Development Lifecycle (AIDLC).
Required Qualifications
Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Software Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or related field, or equivalent relevant experience.
5–8 years of experience in platform engineering, software engineering, cloud engineering, DevOps, automation engineering, or related disciplines.
Strong hands-on experience with cloud-native technologies, modern programming languages, automation frameworks, and engineering platforms.
Experience designing and delivering scalable platform solutions, shared services, automation frameworks, reusable components, developer tools, and self-service capabilities.
Experience leading technical initiatives and driving engineering best practices across teams.
Required Certification – Must Have One Candidate must possess at least one of the following certifications, and a copy must be provided with submission:
AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
Microsoft Azure Fundamentals (AZ-900)
Google Cloud Digital Leader
Key Technical Skills
Platform Engineering Strategy & Architecture
Cloud Engineering & Cloud-Native Architecture
Infrastructure as Code (IaC)
DevOps & CI/CD
Site Reliability Engineering (SRE)
Monitoring & Observability
Platform Reliability & Operational Excellence
Developer Experience (DevEx)
Self-Service Platforms
APIs, SDKs, Frameworks & Reusable Components
Platform Modernization
Security, Governance & Compliance Automation
Intelligent Automation
AI-Assisted Engineering
AI Agents & Agent-Based Development
LLMs, Prompt Engineering & Context Engineering
MCP and RAG
Automation across development, testing, deployment, operations, governance, and security
Responsibilities
Lead the architecture and development of scalable engineering platforms, shared services, and reusable platform capabilities.
Design APIs, SDKs, frameworks, templates, accelerators, and self-service solutions.
Drive platform modernization and cloud-native adoption.
Develop intelligent automation and AI-enabled engineering solutions across the software development lifecycle.
Design and implement AI agents, orchestration frameworks, and autonomous workflows.
Integrate LLM, RAG, MCP, prompt engineering, and context engineering capabilities into engineering platforms.
Improve developer productivity and experience through self-service platforms and automation.
Integrate platform capabilities into CI/CD pipelines and engineering workflows.
Implement highly available, scalable, resilient, and observable platform solutions.
Establish monitoring, operational intelligence, anomaly detection, and automated remediation.
Implement Infrastructure as Code and automation-first engineering practices.
Establish security controls, governance standards, compliance automation, and technology guardrails.
Collaborate with engineering, architecture, product, security, and operations teams.
Interview process: 2 rounds
Technical Interview
Design / Architecture / Solution Interview
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Numbers & Facts
Location
Plano, TX
Industry
Staffing/Employment Agencies
Salary
$64.28 Per Hour
Company Size
1,000 to 1,499 employees
Year Founded
1968
Website
https://www.tailoredmanagement.com/
About Company
CONNECTING TOP TALENT WITH TOP-TIER OPPORTUNITIES
Tailored Management is a global staffing firm that specializes in partnering with large organizations that run their contingent labor program in a VMS/MSP environment. We have the unique capacity to support programs across all scopes and geographic locations from a single headquarters, successfully elevating program performance across the board and minimizing costs, miscommunication and delivery times. But what do we really do? We bring together the best talent with the greatest opportunities.
Skills
Application Programming Interface (API)unmatched
Architectural Designunmatched
Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agentsunmatched
Automationunmatched
Automation Engineeringunmatched
Best Practicesunmatched
Cloud Architectureunmatched
Cloud Computingunmatched
Computer Scienceunmatched
Continuous Deployment/Deliveryunmatched
Continuous Integrationunmatched
DevOpsunmatched
High Availabilityunmatched
Information Technology Softwareunmatched
Leadershipunmatched
MCP - Microsoft Certified Professionalunmatched
Mathematicsunmatched
Microsoft Windows Azureunmatched
Product Lifecycleunmatched
Productivity Managementunmatched
Programming Languagesunmatched
Programming Toolsunmatched
Regulatory Complianceunmatched
Reliability Engineeringunmatched
Scalable System Developmentunmatched
Software Development Lifecycle (SDLC)unmatched
Software Engineeringunmatched
Statisticsunmatched
Technical Leadershipunmatched
Test Automationunmatched
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