The Senior Platform Engineer will create and redesign broad technical infrastructure and information systems that define how servers, networks, and storage systems work together to support the needs of the organization. This role will be highly focused on leveraging Google Cloud Platform (GCP) to build scalable, resilient, and automated environments, ensuring that cloud infrastructure aligns with organizational goals and industry best practices.
Responsibilities and Duties
Cloud Architecture & Design: Design and select business-critical storage, data center, and client/server environments, specifically focusing on GCP services, to design solutions in line with industry best practice and provide a third-line point of escalation for appropriate global infrastructure solutions.
Infrastructure Evolution: Drive advances in technologies and architectures, particularly cloud-native services, to increase the value delivered by technology and digital capabilities. Recommend and participate in activities related to the design, development, and maintenance of the IT capabilities within the enterprise architecture.
Strategic Partnership: Partner with Enterprise Architecture to develop and maintain enterprise architecture artifacts, ensuring seamless integration between legacy systems and GCP cloud environments.
Requirements Gathering: Collect business requirements using a variety of methods, such as interviews, document analysis, workshops, and workflow analysis, to express the requirements in terms of target user roles and goals.
Lifecycle Migration: Document "as is" and "to be" processes and describe the changes required to migrate to the "to be" capability (e.g., on-prem to GCP migrations) to record accurately the change required.
Emerging Tech Evaluation: Explore and develop a detailed understanding of external developments or emerging issues, such as new GCP features or cloud security trends, and contribute to the evaluation of their potential impact on the organization.
Feasibility & ROI: Conduct feasibility studies from a technological and organizational perspective and document findings to complete cost-benefit analysis on implementing changes to business processes, products, or business unit structure.
Cloud Security & Compliance: Implement required security measures, such as GCP Cloud Armor, IAM policies, firewalls, message encryption, system hardening, or vulnerability remediation, monitoring performance to notify security experts of any problems.
Governance: Maintain and renew a deep knowledge and understanding of the organization's policies and procedures and of relevant regulatory codes, ensuring all cloud deployments adhere to required standards.
Platform Leadership: Lead technical developments to improve the quality of the infrastructure platform to better meet users' needs.
Professional Development: Develop own capabilities by participating in assessment and development planning; gain or maintain professional cloud certifications (e.g., GCP Professional Cloud Architect) to improve performance and fulfill personal potential.
Financial Accountability: Contribute to developing business cases to quantify current costs, justify project investment, and identify the return on investment for cloud-based initiatives.
Fault Isolation: Develop and implement designs providing fault isolation and resolution for complex challenges to limit and address issues promptly.
System Testing: Design and perform system and component tests and respond to user emails to monitor, diagnose, and correct performance issues as relates to the infrastructure platform.
Mentorship & Coaching: Use the organization's formal development framework to identify the team's individual development needs. Plan and implement actions to build their capabilities through training or coaching in cloud-native technologies.
Automation Focus: Contribute to the continued improvement of our Infrastructure Automation (IaC) tooling and processes.
Operational Excellence: Participate in after-hours support (on-call) and contribute to Knowledge Base articles and Standard Operating Procedures to ensure routine cloud tasks are well documented.
Onboarding: Participate in the onboarding and training of new team members.
Skills
Required:
Data-Driven Decision Making: Determine and analyze trends from data that is collected to assist in compiling reports that will help in decision-making.
Business Contextualization: Understand business context, needs, and architecture to document the current state of processes and the business.
Requirement Translation: Express user needs in terms of business requirements and conduct build-vs-buy analyses for cloud services.
Change Strategy: Develop an effective change strategy based on gap analyses and enterprise readiness assessment results.
Systems Testing: Design, execute, and report on systems/service tests to ensure applications function as specified.
Business Case Creation: Interpret or lead business case creation to quantify costs and justify project investment.
Information Lifecycle Management: Develop and execute architectures and policies to manage the information lifecycle needs of the organization.
Automation Management: Adopt solutions to automate and manage multiple applications and functions (e.g., Terraform, Ansible, or Puppet).
Infrastructure Administration: Manage and administer various infrastructure components such as compute, storage, cloud, network, observability, and tooling.
Scripting & Programming: Scripting experience with languages such as Bash, PowerShell, or Python.
Delegation & Leadership: Ability to delegate and provide clear "definition of done" criteria for junior engineers.
Preferred:
CI/CD Pipeline Management: Experience with CI/CD tooling (e.g., Jenkins, GitLab CI, or Google Cloud Build).
Containerization: Experience with managing containerized infrastructure, such as Kubernetes (GKE), Docker, and Cloud Run.
Cloud Architecture: Specific experience designing and deploying complex platforms within the Google Cloud Ecosystem.
Education and Experience
Education: Bachelor's Degree or Equivalent Level of Experience.
Experience: Experienced practitioner able to deal with the majority of situations and to advise others (3 to 6 years).
Managerial Experience: Experience supervising and directing people and resources to achieve specific end results (1 to 3 years).
O'Reilly Auto Parts has a proven track record of growth and stability. O'Reilly is full of successful career stories and believes in a strong promote-from-within philosophy, encouraging you to grow your career along with the organization.
Total Compensation Package:
Competitive Wages & Paid Time Off
Stock Purchase Plan & 401k with Employer Contributions Starting Day One
Medical, Dental, & Vision Insurance with Optional Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
Team Member Health/Wellbeing Programs
Tuition Educational Assistance Programs
Opportunities for Career Growth
O'Reilly Auto Parts is an equal opportunity employer. The Company does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, national origin or ancestry (including immigration status or citizenship), sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation, and related medical conditions,) age (40 and over), veteran status, uniformed service member status, physical or mental disability, genetic information (including testing or characteristics) or another protected status as defined by local, state, or federal law, as applicable.
Qualified individuals with a disability may be entitled to reasonable accommodation under the Americans with Disabilities Act. If you require a reasonable accommodation during the application or employment process, please send an email to: rar@oreillyauto.com or call (800) 471-7431 option , and provide your requested accommodation, and position details.
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