Platform Engineer

Location: Austin United States of America

Thales people architect identity management and data protection solutions at the heart of digital security. Business and governments rely on us to bring trust to the billions of digital interactions they have with people. Our technologies and services help banks exchange funds people cross borders energy become smarter and much more. More than 30000 organizations already rely on us to verify the identities of people and things grant access to digital services analyze vast quantities of information and encrypt data to make the connected world more secure.

This is a hybrid position in Austin TX

Position Summary

We are seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to design build and operate the internal platforms that enable engineering teams to deliver software faster more securely and with greater confidence. This role sits at the core of the Thales CDI Cloud Center of Excellence (CCoE) and is responsible for creating high-quality paved roads across cloud compute network CI/CD and developer tooling.

The ideal candidate combines deep infrastructure knowledge with a software engineering mindset. They understand that platform engineering is not just about maintaining infrastructure it is about building a product for developers: self-service reliable well-documented observable and easy to use.

This is a hands-on technical role based in Austin Texas supporting a multi-cloud environment across AWS GCP and Azure.

Essential Functions

• Platform Engineering
  • Design and build internal platform capabilities that reduce cognitive load for application teams and improve developer productivity
  • Treat infrastructure as a product focusing on usability consistency reliability and developer experience
  • Create self-service workflows templates and reusable components that standardize how teams consume platform services
• Infrastructure Automation
  • Develop automation for cloud foundations CI/CD secrets management container platforms and network services
  • Build and maintain reusable platform tooling for provisioning configuration deployment and operational tasks
  • Eliminate manual operational work through automation and policy-driven controls
• Cloud & Kubernetes Engineering
  • Support production-grade Kubernetes and multi-cloud landing zones across AWS GCP and Azure
  • Contribute to scalable platform patterns for compute networking identity access and workload deployment
  • Ensure platform components are secure resilient and designed for enterprise scale
• Developer Enablement
  • Partner with product engineering teams to understand pain points and deliver practical platform solutions
  • Provide clear documentation reference architectures and golden paths for common engineering workflows
  • Improve the developer experience by reducing friction in build test deploy and operate cycles
• Reliability & Operational Excellence
  • Build observability into platform services and ensure they are measurable supportable and trustworthy
  • Participate in incident response root cause analysis and continuous improvement efforts
  • Define and support operational standards that improve reliability maintainability and service quality
• Cross-functional Collaboration
  • Collaborate with SRE Security Product Owners and Engineering teams to align platform capabilities with business and technical needs
  • Influence platform strategy through strong technical judgment and clear communication
  • Identify systemic bottlenecks and propose scalable solutions before they impact delivery

Minimum Requirements

• Education
  • Bachelors degree in Computer Science Engineering or a related field; equivalent professional experience accepted
• Experience
  • Bachelors degree in field with a minimum of 8-12 years of relevant work experience or Masters degree in field with 6 years of relevant work experience
  • 8 years of experience in Platform Engineering DevOps SRE Infrastructure Engineering or a related discipline
  • Proven experience building internal platforms automation frameworks or developer tooling in a production environment
  • Experience working in multi-cloud and/or enterprise-scale infrastructure environments
• Technical Skills
  • Strong experience with Kubernetes containerized workloads and cloud-native architectures
  • Hands-on knowledge of AWS GCP and/or Azure
  • Experience with CI/CD pipelines Git-based workflows and deployment automation
  • Familiarity with secrets management artifact management and infrastructure provisioning tools
  • Strong scripting or programming skills for automation and platform development
  • Understanding of observability reliability and operational readiness practices
• Soft Skills
  • Product mindset: able to think like a platform user and design with developer experience in mind
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • Able to translate complex infrastructure topics into simple actionable guidance
  • Comfortable working autonomously in a distributed collaborative environment
  • Strong ownership curiosity and a bias toward simplification and automation

Preferred Qualifications

• Nice to Have
  • Experience with platform engineering patterns such as IDPs golden paths self-service portals and platform APIs
  • Experience in a Cloud Center of Excellence or shared platform organization
  • Familiarity with FinOps GreenOps or cloud governance models
  • Exposure to policy-as-code service catalogs and internal developer platforms

Travel

• Twice a year minimum

Applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States for any employer at the time of hire. This position is not eligible for visa sponsorship or for assuming sponsorship of an employment visa now or in the future.

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The reference Total Target Compensation (TTC) market range for this position inclusive of annual base salary and the variable compensation target is between

Total Target Cash (TTC) 131781.00 - 219635.00 USD Annual

This reflects how companies in a similar industry and geographic region generally pay for similar jobs. This range helps the Company make pay decisions as one data point among many. Where a position falls within this range is also dependent on other factors including but not limited to the employees career path history competencies skills and performance as well as the companys annual salary budget the customers program requirements and the companys internal equity. Thales may offer additional benefits and other compensation depending on circumstances not related to an applicants status protected by local state or federal law.

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Thales provides an extensive benefits program for all full-time employees working 30 or more hours per week and their eligible dependents including the following:

Elective Health Dental Vision FSA/HSA Voluntary Life and AD&D Whole Group Life w/LTC Critical Illness Hospital Indemnity Accident Insurance Legal Plan Identity Theft and Pet Insurance

Retirement Savings Plan after 30 days of employment with a company contribution and a match and with no vesting period

Company paid holidays and Paid Time Off

Company provided Life Insurance AD&D Disability Employee Assistance Plan and Well-being Program