Senior Platform Engineer - DevOps

Job Description Summary

Design, support, and enhance enterprise development platforms that enable efficient software delivery, automation, security, and scalability. This role partners across engineering, infrastructure, and security teams to improve platform reliability, streamline developer workflows, and advance modern DevOps practices.

Job Description

This role is a hybrid workstyle: with the associate expected to work from a Raymond James office location at least three days per week, including either Monday or Friday.

Please note: This role is not eligible for Work Visa sponsorship, either currently or in the future.

Technical Skills & Experience:

• 5+ years of Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, Infrastructure Engineering, or related experience.
• Hands-on experience administering and supporting enterprise development platforms such as GitHub Enterprise, Jenkins, JFrog (Artifactory/Xray), Azure DevOps, Jira, SonarQube, or similar tools.
• Strong knowledge of Git, source control management, artifact repositories, release automation, CI/CD pipelines, and software delivery best practices.
• Experience leading platform upgrades, integrations, migrations, and tool consolidations, including the movement of repositories, pipelines, configurations, and users between platforms.
• Experience with Linux, Windows, Docker, Kubernetes, and Infrastructure as Code tools such as Terraform or Ansible.
• Strong scripting and automation skills using Python, PowerShell, Bash, Groovy, or similar languages. Experience implementing secure development and deployment practices, platform governance, monitoring, observability, and root cause analysis.

Key Responsibilities:

• Administer, maintain, and optimize enterprise development platforms and services, ensuring reliability, performance, security, and scalability across the software delivery ecosystem.
• Design, implement, and support CI/CD capabilities that improve software delivery efficiency and developer experience.
• Lead platform upgrade, integration, migration, and modernization initiatives while minimizing disruption to development teams and business operations.
• Drive automation initiatives that improve reliability, scalability, operational efficiency, and developer productivity.
• Partner with development, infrastructure, and security teams to establish best practices for source control, CI/CD, artifact management, workflow automation, and platform governance.
• Implement secure software delivery practices, including code scanning, dependency management, secrets management, and compliance controls.
• Troubleshoot complex issues across development platforms, infrastructure, automation workflows, and developer tooling.
• Contribute to platform standards, architecture decisions, and continuous improvement initiatives that advance enterprise DevOps capabilities.

Education

High School (HS) (Required)

Work Experience

General Experience - 3 to 6 years

Certifications

Travel

Less than 25%

Workstyle

Hybrid

The total compensation for this position includes base salary or wages, and may include components such as additional compensation (cash or equity), discretionary bonuses, or commissions. This position is eligible for a benefits package that may include medical, dental, and vision; life insurance; critical illness insurance and accident insurance; disability benefits; retirement savings; paid time off (including vacation, holidays, and sick leave); and parental leave. Eligibility for benefits and specific offerings may vary based on position and employment status. To view more details of the benefits offered, visit Myrjbenefits.com.

At Raymond James our associates use five guiding behaviors (Develop, Collaborate, Decide, Deliver, Improve) to deliver on the firm's core values of client-first, integrity, independence and a conservative, long-term view.

We expect our associates at all levels to:

• Grow professionally and inspire others to do the same
• Work with and through others to achieve desired outcomes
• Make prompt, pragmatic choices and act with the client in mind
• Take ownership and hold themselves and others accountable for delivering results that matter
• Contribute to the continuous evolution of the firm

At Raymond James – as part of our people-first culture, we honor, value, and respect the uniqueness, experiences, and backgrounds of all of our Associates. When associates bring their best authentic selves, our organization, clients, and communities thrive. The Company is an equal opportunity employer and makes all employment decisions on the basis of merit and business needs.

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