Platform Engineer– Department of Technology – (1043)

About the position The Department of Technology is seeking a Senior IS Engineer to join the Platform Engineering team as a lead cloud migration and modernization engineer. This position provides senior technical leadership for Cloud 2030, the City’s five-year program to migrate approximately 1,700 workloads from on-premises data centers to commercial cloud platforms. The position requires hands-on engineering: writing Terraform daily, building CI/CD pipelines, executing database migrations, modernizing legacy codebases, developing custom applications, and leading complex multi-cloud deployments from architecture through production cutover. The ideal candidate writes infrastructure-as-code fluently, has led cloud migrations of meaningful complexity, and is comfortable working across multiple cloud providers. The Platform Engineering team is undergoing a transformation from traditional systems administration to a modern engineering organization. We use GitHub for version control and CI/CD, Terraform for infrastructure-as-code, and AI coding tools (Claude Code, AWS Kiro) as part of our development workflow. We are accelerating adoption of containerization and cloud-native patterns across the team. You will help develop and further this technical and cultural change. We build and operate cloud environments that host criminal justice systems, financial systems, and public-facing applications for a city of 880,000 residents.

Responsibilities

• Design and implement multi-cloud infrastructure using Terraform/OpenTofu
• Build and maintain GitHub Actions CI/CD pipelines for infrastructure and application deployments
• Lead end-to-end cloud migrations including network architecture, compute provisioning, database migration, and production cutover
• Modernize legacy applications for cloud deployment (containerization, framework upgrades, CI/CD enablement)
• Develop custom applications, automation tools, and internal platform services
• Perform database migrations across Oracle, SQL Server, and PostgreSQL, including data transfer, performance validation, and high-availability configuration
• Implement compliance controls (CJIS, HIPAA) as infrastructure-as-code
• Conduct code reviews and establish engineering standards for the team
• Mentor junior engineers on cloud architecture and modern development practices

Requirements

• An associate degree in computer science, computer engineering, information systems, or a closely related field from an accredited college or university OR its equivalent in terms of total course credits/units [i.e., at least sixty (60) semester or ninety (90) quarter credits/units with a minimum of twenty (20) semester or thirty (30) quarter credits/units in one of the fields above or a closely-related field].
• Three (3) years of experience analyzing, installing, configuring, enhancing, and/or maintaining the components of an enterprise network.
• Additional experience as described above may be substituted for the required degree on a year-for-year basis (up to a maximum of two (2) years). One (1) year is equivalent to thirty (30) semester units/ forty-five (45) quarter units with a minimum of 10 semester / 15 quarter units in one of the fields above or a closely related field.
• Completion of the 1010 Information Systems Trainee Program may be substituted for the required degree.

Nice-to-haves

• At least 2 years of production experience with Terraform or OpenTofu, including authoring configurations from scratch and designing reusable modules, managing state across environments, and implementing policy‑as‑code.
• Experience provisioning and managing production infrastructure programmatically (IaC, automation), with at least 2 years of hands‑on engineering experience on a major cloud provider; multi‑cloud experience strongly preferred.
• Demonstrated experience building automated deployment pipelines (e.g., GitHub Actions, GitLab CI) and working with GitOps workflows, automated testing, and plan/apply gating.
• Experience migrating production databases (Oracle, SQL Server, PostgreSQL) to cloud platforms, including use of migration tooling, schema conversion, and high‑availability configurations.
• Ability to write production‑quality code in at least one programming language (Python, Go, JavaScript/TypeScript, or equivalent) and work effectively within full application codebases.
• Regular use of AI‑assisted coding tools (e.g., Claude Code, GitHub Copilot, AWS Kiro, Cursor), with the ability to explain how these tools enhance delivery speed and code quality.
• Experience modernizing legacy applications (framework upgrades, containerization, API development).

Benefits

• Competitive pay, benefits, and retirement options
• Career growth opportunities through training, internal mobility, and subsidized education
• Diverse work environment in a diverse city

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