Senior Platform Engineer

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About the Role:

As a Senior Platform Engineer, your core responsibility will be to support and enhance Pondurance’s MDR Data Pipeline. You will focus on enhancing the durability and reliability of our HashiCorp-based, containerized Vector endpoints and the systems that deploy them.

You’ll be part of our Platform Engineering team, which brings together a broad range of technical expertise. We’re looking to add a DevOps-focused skill set, while also offering opportunities to contribute beyond the high-level responsibilities outlined in this posting as our environment continues to grow.

Responsibilities:

• Act as a subject matter expert for our GitHub Actions, Terraform, and Nomad–based CI/CD pipeline that deploys containers into customer environments
• Own and maintain the self-service deployment mechanisms for our platform frontend using GitHub Actions and Nomad
• Manage system and application configuration using Salt and HashiCorp tooling
• Oversee and maintain Docker-based systems to ensure reliable deployment and management
• Implement and maintain monitoring, alerting, and dataflow solutions using Datadog
• Participate in on-call rotations and root cause analysis (RCA)
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams on reliability, scalability, and continuous improvement initiatives
• Document processes, procedures, and troubleshooting steps to support knowledge sharing and team efficiency
  
  

Technologies:

• Linux across multiple environments (AWS EC2, Azure, Hyper-V, VMware, bare-metal)
• Terraform
• GitHub Actions (Jenkins or equivalent CI/CD tools)

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• Nomad, Docker, Kubernetes, Docker Compose
• HashiCorp ecosystem tools
• Salt
• Datadog (monitoring, alerting, dataflow)
• Python
• Shell scripting
  
  

Knowledge and Skills:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or equivalent professional experience
• 3+ years of experience in Platform, DevOps, Infrastructure, or SRE roles
• Strong proficiency in Linux systems administration across cloud and on-prem environments
• High level of competence with Terraform and CI/CD tooling
• Hands-on experience managing Docker-based and containerized systems
• Solid understanding of monitoring, alerting, and dataflow management
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python and Shell
• Familiarity with tools such as Jira, Slack, and Google Workspace
• Excellent documentation and communication skills
• Ability to work independently, prioritize effectively, and meet deadlines with minimal supervision
  
  

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Who we are:

At Pondurance we embrace, educate, and protect people by helping make our world a better and safer place. We believe in inviting good people into our company who are driven to become great!

Every person at Pondurance is encouraged to focus and grow in their individual areas of interest, passion, and career path. We have accessible leaders as Mentors who believe “None of us are as smart as all of us” (R. Pelletier).

We believe everyone has the freedom to be themselves, especially at work and so we embrace, support, and celebrate each other. Each one of us influences our company’s direction through speaking up, you have a voice and we want you to use it.

Do you want to be a part of something different? Do you want to influence real change? Do you want to be part of the solution? Then join us in redefining the security and cyber risk landscape.

What We Offer:

The opportunity to apply your expertise, take on new challenges, and help customers address their biggest security objectives.

An inclusive culture of teamwork that embraces the diversity of our people and communities in which we work.

Some of the corporate benefits (there are more) for full-time employees include:

• Medical, dental, vision, disability, FSA, HSA, life and AD&D insurance, 401(k) Plan.
• Time off: PTO, sick, holiday, & parental leave details are available
• Money: We provide competitive compensation packages based on the market and your overall credentials.
  
  

Although this is a remote role, if you live close by, you’ll have access to our office locations: McLean, VA or Indianapolis, IN.

To promote a healthy and safe work community we require background and drug screenings as part of our hiring process. Details of our process will be provided upon request.

We are an equal opportunity employer focused on celebrating diversity and inclusion. We believe that each individual should be treated equally without regard to race, color, identity, national origin, protected veteran status, religion, sex including sexual orientation and gender identity, disability, or any other characteristic protected by law.