Senior DevOps Platform Engineer

This position is not eligible for employer-sponsored work authorization or visa sponsorship (including initial, transfer, or extension), and candidates must be authorized to work in the United States at the time of application and remain authorized for the duration of employment without the need for sponsorship.

Bachelor's degree in computer science, software engineering, information technology, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.

Five or more years of hands-on experience in DevOps, cloud engineering, platform engineering, infrastructure engineering, software engineering, or a closely related technical role.

Strong hands-on experience with AWS services such as EC2, VPC, S3, IAM, RDS/Aurora, load balancing, Lambda, and related cloud services.

Production-level experience with Kubernetes, preferably Amazon EKS, including containerized workloads, networking, security, scalability, upgrades, and operational readiness.

Strong experience with Infrastructure as Code, preferably Terraform, and infrastructure automation practices.

Experience designing, building, and improving CI/CD pipelines, preferably GitLab CI/CD, for consistent, secure, and reliable deployments.

Strong scripting and automation experience in Linux-based or cloud-native environments using Bash, Python, or a similar language.

Ability to troubleshoot complex infrastructure, application, deployment, networking, security, and operational issues across multiple layers.

Strong written and verbal English communication skills, including the ability to clarify ambiguity, align stakeholders, document decisions, communicate risk, and influence without formal authority.

Demonstrated curiosity, ownership, technical judgment, and the ability to balance strategic improvement with hands-on delivery.

Demonstrated experience owning or materially improving a shared cloud or developer platform used by multiple product teams.

Advanced experience building reusable Terraform modules, platform automation, self-service workflows, or standardized environment patterns.

Experience with Kubernetes governance, admission control, policy enforcement, environment isolation, backup/recovery, and horizontal scalability.

Experience improving product onboarding, cloud migrations, or platform adoption through reusable patterns rather than one-off implementation.

Five or more years of experience in DevOps, cloud, platform, infrastructure, security, or software engineering environments.

Experience working in an enterprise or global organization with distributed teams.

Experience collaborating with security, compliance, enterprise architecture, cloud platform, SRE, vendor, and product teams.

Experience with Datadog, CloudWatch, SonarQube/SonarQ, JFrog, Veracode, LaunchDarkly, Helm, Ansible, secrets management, or similar platforms.

Familiarity with application stacks such as PostgreSQL, .NET, Angular, APIs, or cloud-native microservices.

Relevant AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, DevOps, platform engineering, or security certifications.

Experience mentoring engineers, raising technical standards, and enabling adoption through documentation, coaching, reusable examples, and hands-on collaboration.

Experience with platform engineering concepts such as internal developer platforms, golden paths, service catalogs, developer portals, or reusable infrastructure products.

Experience with Open Policy Agent, Gatekeeper, policy as code, GitOps, Argo CD, or equivalent governance and deployment capabilities.

In addition to a competitive base salary and bonus potential, we offer a robust benefits package including a generous paid time off policy that includes vacation, personal days, health & wellness, and 2 days per year to give back in your local community, paid family leave, educational reimbursement, 401(k) matching, medical/dental/vision coverage, and a variety of other benefits to fit the needs of our employees.

Hilti is a global leader in construction innovation, with more than 34,000 team members across 120 countries. Guided by our purpose, Making Construction Better, we’re driven to keep learning, growing, and finding new ways to make a lasting impact. Here, you’ll be empowered to use your strengths, work with a global and inclusive team, and take on meaningful challenges. At Hilti, you’ll have the chance to make your ideas, achievements, and growth real through purpose, passion, and teamwork.

At Hilti, inclusion is a key focus in how we work, lead, and grow together. We are committed to embracing diversity of thought and creating an environment that is inclusive of everyone, everywhere. We continuously strive to ensure every voice is valued and every team member feels empowered to contribute. By building on this foundation, we strengthen our teams, our innovation, and our impact, making construction better together.

Hilti, Inc is committed to employing a diverse workforce. Qualified applicants will receive consideration without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, veteran status, or disability.