Senior Platform Engineer

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Staff Platform Engineer

Overview

We are seeking a Staff Platform Engineer to lead the design, build, and operation of a highly scalable, secure, and reliable cloud platform on Azure, with Kubernetes at its core. This role plays a critical position within the platform organization, setting architectural direction, improving developer experience, and ensuring production-grade reliability for modern .NET workloads.

As a Staff Engineer, you will partner closely with application, security, and operations teams to enable self-service capabilities, standardize platform patterns, and continuously improve automation, observability, and resilience across the cloud ecosystem.

Key Responsibilities

Platform Architecture & Engineering

• Design, build, and operate a scalable Kubernetes-based platform (AKS) supporting production .NET applications.
• Define platform architecture standards and reference patterns for cloud-native workloads.
• Evaluate and introduce new platform capabilities to improve performance, security, and developer productivity.

Cloud Infrastructure & Automation

• Build and maintain cloud infrastructure across Azure (AWS exposure a plus) using Infrastructure as Code.
• Own end-to-end automation for environment provisioning, scaling, and lifecycle management.
• Ensure infrastructure is secure, cost-efficient, and aligned with enterprise best practices.

CI/CD & Developer Enablement

• Design, maintain, and evolve CI/CD pipelines to support consistent, repeatable, and secure deployments.
• Enable self-service deployment capabilities for engineering teams, reducing friction and time-to-market.
• Partner with developers to improve build, release, and operational workflows.

Reliability, Observability & Operations

• Own monitoring, alerting, and observability tooling to ensure platform health and performance.
• Drive reliability engineering practices including SLIs/SLOs, incident response, and post-incident reviews.
• Proactively identify and remediate scalability, availability, and resiliency risks.

Technical Leadership & Mentorship

• Act as a technical leader and trusted advisor across platform and application teams.
• Mentor engineers and influence best practices in cloud, Kubernetes, and automation.
• Raise the engineering bar by setting standards for platform quality, security, and operational excellence.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelors degree in Information Systems, Computer Science, or related technical field
• 8+ years of experience in platform engineering, SRE, cloud infrastructure, or related roles.
• Deep hands-on experience with Azure and Kubernetes (AKS) in production environments.
• Strong expertise in Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and automation-first design.
• Proven experience operating and supporting large-scale, highly available production systems.
• Strong troubleshooting skills with a systems-level understanding of cloud-native architectures.
• Demonstrated ability to lead technically, influence without authority, and mentor engineers.

Preferred Technologies

• Cloud: Azure (AWS experience is a plus)
• Containers: Kubernetes (AKS), Docker
• Infrastructure as Code: Terraform, Bicep
• CI/CD: Azure DevOps, Jenkins
• Scripting: Python, Bash
• Observability: Dynatrace, Splunk, Prometheus, Grafana

NRG Energy is committed to a drug and alcohol-free workplace. To the extent permitted by law and any applicable collective bargaining agreement, employees are subject to periodic random drug testing, and post-accident and reasonable suspicion drug and alcohol testing.  EOE AA M/F/Vet/Disability. Level, Title and/or Salary may be adjusted based on the applicant's experience or skills.  

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