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Position Details
Job Title :
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Cloud Platform Engineer III
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Location :
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St. Louis, Missouri 63146
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Duration :
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FTE
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Job Summary
As a Platform Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in enabling development and operations teams through robust, scalable, and secure platform capabilities. You will help build the foundation that empowers teams to deliver software efficiently, reliably, and securely.
Essential Functions:
we live by the following five core values: Relationships, Integrity, Teamwork, Balance, and Stability. Our Core Values serve as the fundamental foundation of our corporate culture and drive our interactions, both internally and externally. An essential function of this position is to fully embrace and represent these core values in our daily work life and relationships.
Platform Enablement & Engineering
Design, implement, and maintain self-service platform capabilities that streamline application delivery, observability, and operational workflows across the organization
Develop infrastructure and tooling that supports scalable CI/CD pipelines, IaC, and deployment automation using Azure DevOps, Terraform, GitHub, and ARM templates
Standardize and automate platform operations including provisioning, configuration management, secrets management, and runtime orchestration
Observability & Reliability Engineering
Engineer comprehensive observability solutions (logging, metrics, traces) using tools such as Azure Monitor, OpenTelemetry, and Datadog
Implement reliability patterns and SRE-inspired practices to improve service performance, availability, and scalability
Security & Compliance Integration
Embed secure-by-default practices into platform tooling and pipelines to support DevSecOps principles.
Ensure that platform components and services adhere to security baselines, compliance standards, and monitoring for potential threats
Protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information and technology assets against unauthorized disclosure, destruction and/or alteration in accordance with policies, standards, and procedures
Collaboration & Mentorship
Collaborate closely with application developers, cloud engineers, data teams, cybersecurity, and product teams to ensure smooth integration of platform services across the SDLC
Mentor team members and foster a collaborative culture of continuous learning and shared ownership
Incident Management & Operational Excellence
Participate in incident response efforts, root cause analysis, and blameless post-mortems to continuously improve platform resilience
Contribute to the operational support model, including participation in a 24/7 on-call rotation as needed
Serve as an escalation point on platform monitoring, tools, and general cloud infrastructure
Preferred Qualifications:
Bachelor's degree in computer science in IT related field
Five or more professional certifications relevant to cloud, DevOps, or security
Demonstrated expertise in Azure ecosystem, including identity, networking, and compute services.
Hands-on experience with Infrastructure-as-Code (IaC) tools like Terraform, ARM templates, and Ansible.
Strong background in CI/CD systems, containerization (Docker, Kubernetes on Azure), and platform-as-aservice (PaaS) offerings.
Proficient in observability tooling and practices across cloud-native and hybrid environments.
Solid grasp of cloud security practices and integrating security into infrastructure and application delivery pipelines.
Soft Skills
- Excellent communication and stakeholder engagement skills.
- Proven ability to translate complex technical concepts for varied audiences.
- Demonstrated leadership and mentoring capabilities in a cross-functional team setting.
Dexian stands at the forefront of Talent + Technology solutions with a presence spanning more than 70 locations worldwide and a team exceeding 10,000 professionals. As one of the largest technology and professional staffing companies and one of the largest minority-owned staffing companies in the United States, Dexian combines over 30 years of industry expertise with cutting-edge technologies to deliver comprehensive global services and support.
Dexian connects the right talent and the right technology with the right organizations to deliver trajectory-changing results that help everyone achieve their ambitions and goals. To learn more, please visit .
Dexian is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.
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