Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. Mayo Clinic is a healthcare organization seeking a Senior Platform Engineer for Mayo Clinic Platform. The role develops and operates foundational cloud infrastructure, automation, platform APIs, Kubernetes environments, CI/CD pipelines, and security and observability capabilities while supporting the platform technology roadmap. The engineer will also collaborate with product and engineering teams, participate in incident response, and mentor other engineers.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and operate infrastructure primarily on Google Cloud, including networking, IAM, compute, storage, and managed data services
- Build, enhance, and manage the cloud control plane using Crossplane compositions and providers
- Author and maintain reusable Terraform modules with versioning, automated testing and policy validation
- Operate production Kubernetes clusters: versioning, capacity planning, networking, ingress, storage, autoscaling, and multi-tenancy controls
- Troubleshoot workload and cluster-level issues down to the node and container runtime
- Administer Linux systems, including hardened and managed node images, performance tuning, kernel and package management, systemd, networking, and filesystem troubleshooting
- Design, build, and maintain platform APIs, services, and controllers in Go that let product teams provision and manage cloud resources through self-service, with attention to API versioning, backward compatibility, and clear error handling
- Treat the platform as a product: gather requirements from consuming teams, define interfaces, version APIs
- Produce reference documentation, client examples, runbooks, and golden-path templates so adoption does not require a conversation with the platform team
- Build and maintain pipelines in GitHub Actions and Azure DevOps, including reusable workflows, templates, self-hosted runners, and secret management
- Implement GitOps-based deployment patterns and promotion flows across environments using tools such as Argo CD
- Reduce manual toil by automating provisioning, onboarding, certificate and credential rotation, and routine operational requests
- Write and maintain automated tests for both application and infrastructure code, and integrate dependency, container image, infrastructure-as-code, and static analysis scanning into CI
- Participate in design and code review, upholding standards for readability, testability, and maintainability across the team’s repositories
- Define and instrument SLIs and SLOs for platform services; build dashboards, alerting, logging, and tracing
- Participate in on-call rotation, lead incident response, and drive blameless postmortems
- Monitor and optimize cloud spend for owned services
- Maintain patching and vulnerability remediation cadence for base images, node pools, application dependencies, and Terraform and Crossplane provider versions
- Support compliance and audit requirements through policy-as-code and admission controls
- Apply least-privilege access and defense in depth across projects and clusters, including service accounts and Workload Identity, VPC Service Controls, private networking, and organization policy constraints
- Help shape and execute the Mayo Clinic Platform technical roadmap, providing technical input based on implementation experience, operational learning, and the needs of teams using the platform
- Collaborate with product partners to follow established Software Development Life Cycle and Product Development Life Cycle processes, helping keep technical delivery aligned with product goals and organizational requirements
- Mentor engineers through pairing, design guidance, and code review, strengthening team practice in infrastructure as code, Go, and Kubernetes
Skills
- Bachelor's degree in a relevant information technology field or, in lieu of a degree, a minimum of 7 years of direct infrastructure, platform, or backend engineering experience of increasing complexity
- 3–5 years of professional cloud engineering experience building and supporting production platform services
- Experience delivering software within collaborative, cross-functional teams using iterative or Agile development practices
- Production experience with Google Cloud Platform, or with another major cloud provider
- Experience designing, building, and operating APIs and backend services, including proficiency in Go or in another backend language with readiness to work primarily in Go
- Production experience with infrastructure as code using Terraform
- Linux systems administration experience in a production environment
- Experience with scripting languages such as bash and python
- Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, such as GitHub Actions or Azure DevOps
- Familiarity with healthcare data, privacy, security, or interoperability concepts, or demonstrated experience applying secure engineering practices to sensitive data in another highly regulated domain
- Demonstrated understanding of secure software development practices, including access control, data protection, auditability, responsible production-data handling, and timely escalation of security or compliance concerns
- Ability to independently own services or components end to end, from design through production support, including problems that are ambiguous or span multiple teams
- Strong problem-solving and communication skills, including the ability to seek context, incorporate feedback, identify risks, and explain technical decisions
- Experience with Crossplane, Config Connector, or a similar control-plane approach to infrastructure provisioning
- Working knowledge of healthcare privacy, security, and compliance requirements, including HIPAA
- Experience with cloud-native application development and technologies such as Docker, Kubernetes, and service mesh or API gateway patterns
- Experience contributing to the design of complex distributed systems, services, or technical integrations
- Experience improving engineering practices through testing, automation, documentation, code review, or observability
- Experience supporting teammates through pairing, technical guidance, or knowledge sharing
- Experience with policy-as-code and admission control, such as OPA/Gatekeeper, Kyverno, or Sentinel
- Experience with observability tooling such as Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry
- Experience operating in a multi-cloud or hybrid environment spanning Google Cloud and Azure
- Google Cloud Professional Cloud Architect or Professional Cloud DevOps Engineer certification, or CKA/CKAD
- Operates independently in ambiguous problem spaces, identifying constraints and proposing practical solutions
- Makes thoughtful technical decisions by considering customer needs, business goals, maintainability, security, cost, and operational impact
- Recognizes when a decision can be made independently and when broader technical or stakeholder alignment is needed
- Communicates technical concepts, risks, and tradeoffs clearly to both technical and nontechnical audiences
- Collaborates effectively across engineering, product, design, and other partner groups to clarify requirements and deliver sustainable solutions
- Identifies dependencies and delivery risks early and works with the appropriate partners to resolve them
- Sets technical direction within their area and constructively influences decisions in adjacent teams
- Leads improvements, migrations, and technical change within a defined area, including sequencing, risk, and rollback planning
- Strengthens team capability through thoughtful code review, documentation, feedback, and knowledge sharing
- Demonstrates curiosity and a commitment to developing technical judgment, healthcare domain knowledge, and leadership skills
- Biases toward automation and repeatable patterns over one-time fixes, and treats recurring operational toil as a defect to be engineered away
- Treats security, privacy, and compliance requirements as design inputs rather than late-stage review items
Benefits
- 100% remote work
- Medical: Multiple plan options.
- Dental: Delta Dental or reimbursement account for flexible coverage.
- Vision: Affordable plan with national network.
- Pre-Tax Savings: HSA and FSAs for eligible expenses.
- Retirement: Competitive retirement package to secure your future.
- Continuing education and advancement opportunities
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