Senior Platform Engineer

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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