Sr Platform Engineer Windows
Location: Carrollton, TX
Work Mode: 100% Onsite
Engagement: 5month contract (with strong potential to convert to fulltime)
Candidates must be authorized to work in the United States without current or future employer sponsorship.
Position Overview
We are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer Windows to help design, operate, and modernize enterprisegrade infrastructure across AWS and Windows environments. This role combines strong operational rigor with a modern approach to automation, cloudnative design, and DevOps practices.
You will play a critical role in building secure, scalable platforms while enabling development teams through reliable CI/CD pipelines, infrastructureascode, and standardized tooling. The ideal candidate values stability and governance but is equally driven to reduce manual effort, improve delivery speed, and continuously evolve platform capabilities.
Key Responsibilities
Platform & Infrastructure Engineering
- Design, implement, and operate highly available and scalable infrastructure on AWS
- Architect and maintain Windows (and select Linux) environments integrated with cloud platforms
- Develop and manage infrastructureascode using Terraform (OpenTofu) and AWS CloudFormation/CDK
- Build and maintain Windows configuration management using Chef
- Ensure platform reliability, resilience, and consistency across environments
CI/CD & Automation
- Design, build, and optimize GitLab CI/CD pipelines for .NET applications
- Champion automation to improve deployment speed, reliability, and repeatability
- Partner closely with development teams to enable efficient, secure software delivery
Security, Operations & Visibility
- Implement and enforce security best practices across infrastructure and pipelines
- Collaborate with security, risk, and compliance teams to meet enterprise standards
- Implement monitoring and logging solutions to ensure system health and observability
- Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and deployment issues across environments
Collaboration & Leadership
- Contribute to platform standards, architectural patterns, and technical documentation
- Stay current with industry trends in cloud, platform engineering, and DevOps
- Provide mentorship and technical guidance to junior engineers
Required Qualifications
- Bachelor s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience
- 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering
- Strong handson experience with Amazon Web Services (AWS)
- Solid Windows Server administration experience in cloud or hybrid environments
- Proven experience with Terraform (OpenTofu) and AWS CDK
- Experience designing and supporting GitLab CI/CD pipelines
- Experience deploying and supporting .NET applications in cloud environments
- Strong understanding of cloud security principles and best practices
- Solid networking fundamentals (TCP/IP, DNS, load balancing, firewalls)
- Experience with monitoring and logging platforms (e.g., CloudWatch, New Relic, Prometheus)
- Strong scripting skills in PowerShell, Python, Ruby, or Bash
- Handson experience with Chef for Windows environments
- Excellent communication, collaboration, and troubleshooting skills
Preferred Qualifications
- Experience with containerization and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
- AWS and/or Google Cloud Platform certifications
- Strong PowerShell and Python scripting expertise
- Experience with AWS EC2 features (Auto Scaling, Warm Pools)
- Windows image and build automation using Packer and Chocolatey
- Experience with IIS and Windows server tooling
- Chef cookbookcentric experience (Windows focus, versions 17/18, Supermarket)
- SQL experience including clustering, high availability, automation, and RDS/EC2
- DNS and networking experience with Microsoft DNS, AWS Route 53, and AWS VPC
- Active Directory expertise including security, PKI, trusts, domains, and forests
Why This Role
This position offers the opportunity to work at enterprise scale while applying modern DevOps and cloudnative practices balancing reliability, security, and compliance with automation, speed, and continuous improvement.
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