Lead Platform Engineer

ADDITIONAL INFORMATION

• Hybrid role, onsite 3 days per week as directed.
• Candidates must live within 50 miles of a OneMain Corporate office located in Evansville, IN; Baltimore, MD; Wilmington, DE; Charlotte, NC; or Irving, TX.
• Potential for contract extension

Mandatory Skills:
Required Skills Deep experience building scalable, reliable monitoring and observability solutions, including instrumentation, alerting, dashboarding, and configuration across large, complex environments. Hands-on expertise and proficency with modern monitoring and observability tools, (e.g., OpsRamp, Grafana, Elastic, CloudWatch, Azure Monitor BigPanda (AIOps), and strong knowledge of metrics, logs, traces, and OpenTelemetry. Strong scripting and programming capability (Bash, PowerShell, and one or more languages such as Python, C-family, or JavaScript) to automate telemetry, alerting, and platform workflows. Strong expertise with cloud platforms (AWS and/or Azure) and container orchestration systems (Kubernetes, Docker). Deep hands-on experience with Elastic Observability (APM, Logs, Metrics, Traces) Understanding of distributed systems fundamentals, including networking, security, databases, DevSecOps principles, and performance/capacity engineering. Strong communication skills, with the ability to clearly explain complex technical topics to both technical and non-technical audiences. Exceptional problem-solving and troubleshooting abilities, especially in high-pressure or time-sensitive environments. Effective prioritization and multitasking, able to manage competing deadlines while maintaining quality and focus. Proven cross-functional collaboration, working seamlessly with diverse teams in large, complex IT environments and driving continuous improvement across systems.

Desired Skills:
Preferred Qualifications Experience with CI/CD pipelines and tools like Jenkins, GitHub, GitLab CI, or CircleCI Experience querying, manipulating, and visualizing time-series data. Familiarity with Infrastructure as Code tools (e.g., Ansible, Terraform). Knowledge of microservices architecture and event-driven systems. Working knowledge of REST APIs, JSON, and ServiceNow. Experience with cloud monitoring particularly AWS or Azure.