Senior Platform Engineer

Your Impact The Senior Platform Engineer is a key technical leader on the Platform Engineering team, independently owning platform domains and driving their evolution. You design systems; not just implement them. You identify reliability, security, and scalability risks before they materialize, and you lead the technical response when they do. About CivicPlus At CivicPlus , we strive to bring our company vision to life through innovation and collaboration. Supported by approachable leadership and transparent communication, we’re empowered to make an impact on local government and the residents they serve. Grow your career alongside great people, where authenticity is welcome, successes are celebrated, and potential is nurtured. What You’ll Do As a Senior Platform Engineer, you will: Own the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of platform domains (e.g., the CI/CD platform, the Kubernetes platform, or the cloud foundations layer). Architect and implement cloud landing zones, network topologies, and identity frameworks for new product lines or environments. Define and enforce IaC standards and module design patterns across the Platform Engineering team. Lead production incident response for P0/P1 platform incidents; drive post-incident reviews with actionable remediation. Drive automation initiatives that reduce toil for platform engineers and product teams. Mentor and provide technical code review for L1 and L2 engineers. Partner with SRE on reliability reviews f