[Hiring] Platform Engineer @Empower

Role Description

This role is focused on platform engineering and DevOps enablement for the Lean Non-Prod platform, with a strong emphasis on CI/CD pipeline creation, maintenance, and standardization. The candidate should be comfortable working hands-on with GitLab pipelines and related CI/CD tooling such as Jenkins and ArgoCD.

The person in this role will help build and maintain “golden pipeline” patterns that engineering teams can reuse across different technology stacks. Current and expected pipeline types include:

• Terraform IaC
• Maven
• Node
• ArgoCD
• Liquibase

A near-term focus is getting a reliable Liquibase pipeline operational, including support for Oracle and PostgreSQL database deployment patterns.

Key responsibilities and expectations:

• Practical experience designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, especially in GitLab CI.
• Experience with Jenkins and ArgoCD.
• Understanding of how to build reusable, governed pipeline templates rather than one-off scripts.
• Comfortable working in AWS environments, especially with EKS and Kubernetes-based workloads.
• Future work to help set up or support the EKS environment in production.
• Infrastructure as Code experience, especially with Terraform.
• Understanding of how IaC fits into enterprise DevOps, environment promotion, approvals, and governance.
• Security awareness regarding enterprise controls, including firewall rules, dedicated ERSA/IAM roles, least-privilege access, and management of highly privileged automation paths.
• Liquibase experience, particularly using Liquibase in CI/CD workflows for Oracle and PostgreSQL.
• Kubernetes, runners, and pipeline execution experience.
• Understanding of GitLab runner configuration, troubleshooting, scaling, and secure execution patterns.
• Collaboration with development, QA, security, operations, and platform teams.
• Ability to work through dependencies, clarify requirements, troubleshoot pipeline failures, and document reusable patterns.

Qualifications

• 3–5 years of platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE experience with hands-on CI/CD delivery.
• Comfortable with GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS.
• Scripting with Bash or Python.
• Cloud infrastructure in AWS.
• Experience with Liquibase, Oracle, PostgreSQL, reusable pipeline frameworks, and enterprise security controls is a plus.

Benefits

• Flexible work environment.
• Fluid career paths with encouragement for internal mobility.
• Focus on purpose, well-being, and work-life balance.
• Welcoming and inclusive environment.
• Opportunities for volunteering for causes that matter most to associates.

Company Description

We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity. All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, religion, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable state or local law.