About this opportunity
The Sherwin-Williams Company lists this Lead Platform Engineer opportunity in cleveland, Ohio. Review the employer’s description below for duties, qualifications and application requirements.
Job description
The Lead Platform Engineer role is responsible for setting strategic priorities for the maintenance of platforms within the current technology environment. The role involves sharing leading best practices and providing guidance to maintain the overall integrity of the platform, including operating systems, hardware and software infrastructure that are critical to the company's user populace and application environments. They foster a culture of collaboration with cross-functional teams to ensure that all components of the platform are working efficiently, securely, and resiliently. The Lead Platform Engineer leverages a strategic mindset, offers advice, and drives the development and implementation of security policies to ensure high performance and reliability of the company's infrastructure, including both cloud and on-premises systems, in support of DevOps efforts and general business and IT objectives.
WHAT THE ROLE WILL DO:
Set strategic priorities for platform hardware, software, and network requirements in alignment with overall organizational goals
Share best practices for monitoring system performance, and lead teams responsible for system performance and troubleshooting of issues
Leverage advanced techniques and methods for optimizing DevOps tools (such as API Gateway, Teraform) to support processes as per organizational needs
Foster a culture of collaboration among cross-functional teams to ensure new features and services are brought into production
Leverage a strategic mindset to oversee the execution and maintenance of automated and orchestrated fulfillment mechanisms to optimize delivery of key platform services
Lead cross-team collaboration and workstreams to ensure smooth operations
Identify potential security threats, mitigate them proactively and set standards for a strict security compliance
Drive and oversee the development and implementation of security and resiliency policies, standards, and procedures in line with organizational strategic priorities and latest industry regulations
Evaluate high-level design documentation, share feedback, and provide recommendations
Interpret results and present findings from technical research regarding user requests for new/modified systems or severe problem resolution
Foster strong relationships with vendors to create mutually beneficial opportunities for the organization
This role is not remote/ hybrid and will report to Sherwin-Williams Global Headquarters located at 1 Sherwin Way, Cleveland, OH 44113.
Job duties include contact with other employees and access confidential and proprietary information and/or other items of value, and such access may be supervised or unsupervised. The Company therefore has determined that a review of criminal history is necessary to protect the business and its operations and reputation and is necessary to protect the safety of the Company's staff, employees, and business relationships
Must be eighteen years or older
Required Qualifications:
Must be at least 18 years of age
Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science or a related field. In lieu of a degree, at least 9 years of experience in the role of Platform Engineer or related position
6+ years of experience in platform engineering and infrastructure components (with a strong focus on containerization technologies, including Docker, Kubernetes, and Rancher.)
Expertise in automated interaction with physical infrastructure
Proven track record in managing and maintaining cloud-based environments such as AWS, GCP, or Azure
Expertise in monitoring and log management tools such as Nagios, Splunk, and ELK
Proven track record in developing and implementing backup and disaster recovery strategies
Expertise in scripting experience in languages such as Python, PowerShell, and Bash
Expertise in Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and configuration management tools such as Ansible, Chef, and Terraform
Preferred Qualifications:
Azure Solutions Architect, Certified Kubernetes Administrator (CKA), or AWS Certified DevOps Engineer preferred
3+ years of hands-on experience with containerization technologies, including Docker, and Kubernetes and Rancher for orchestration and cluster management
Proven expertise in maintaining platform-level runtimes, including ingress controllers (e.g., NGINX), TLS certificate lifecycle management (e.g., cert-manager), and secrets management integrations (e.g., HashiCorp Vault)
Experience deploying and managing observability tools, such as Sysdig for monitoring and CVE scanning, Fluentd for log forwarding, and Elasticsearch for log analysis
Familiarity with GitOps practices and tools, particularly ArgoCD, to support continuous deployment workflows
Technical Skills
Programming Languages
Cloud Technologies & Platforms
Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment (CI/CD)
DevOps Methodology
Software Packaging and Deployment Procedures
Operating Systems
Network Operations, Configuration, & Services
Containerization
Monitoring and Logging
Integration Technology
Travel: 5%
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