Senior Platform Engineer

Primary Office Location:

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**Please note: this on-site position is based at our Financial Center in Pittsburgh, PA. Candidates must be local, or willing to relocate to the area.

In addition to the requirements below, strong knowledge of AWS, Azure and GCP along with the ability to take best practices and apply them to a hybrid cloud/datacenter model are strongly preferred.

FNB will not provide sponsorship for employment-based visas for this position; only candidates who are legally authorized to work in the U.S. will be considered.

At First National Bank, we value relevant experience and the accomplishments you’ve achieved throughout your career. For this position, equivalent experience may be considered in lieu of the education requirements listed below. Specifically, we will accept two (2) years of commensurate experience with an associate degree, or four (4) years of commensurate experience without a bachelor’s degree.**

Position Title: Senior Platform Engineer

Business Unit: Technology

Reports to: Director of Infrastructure Services

Position Overview:

The Senior Platform Engineer is a senior-level technical expert responsible for architecting, engineering, and optimizing enterprise-grade cloud platforms that support mission-critical business services. This role drives innovation in cloud architecture, automation, security engineering, performance, and resiliency. The Senior Platform Engineer partners cross-functionally to deliver scalable, compliant, and highly available cloud solutions that align with corporate strategy and regulatory obligations.

Primary Responsibilities:

Design, engineer, and maintain secure, scalable, enterprise cloud infrastructure platforms that support mission-critical applications and meet stringent operational and regulatory standards.

Architect highly available, fault-tolerant cloud solutions that align with resiliency, continuity, and recovery objectives while ensuring maximum system uptime and performance.

Develop and implement infrastructure-as-code, automation pipelines, and standardized deployment patterns to reduce operational risk, improve consistency, and accelerate delivery.

Integrate advanced security controls, identity and access management, network segmentation, and zero-trust principles into all platform designs to ensure compliance and minimize exposure.

Lead cloud cost-optimization efforts, monitor consumption trends, identify savings opportunities, and support observability engineering including logging, monitoring, and performance tuning.

Drive disaster-recovery architecture, validation, and testing for cloud platforms. Execute vulnerability remediation, patching, configuration hardening, and continuous compliance activities.

Serve as a senior escalation point for complex cloud incidents, conducting deep-dive root cause analysis and implementing durable corrective actions across platform services.

Lead enterprise evaluations of cloud technologies, tools, and vendors, influencing platform strategy, sourcing decisions, and long-term architectural direction.

Mentor and develop junior and mid-level platform engineers by providing technical leadership, reviewing solution designs, and setting engineering best practices.

Collaborate with Enterprise Architecture to ensure cloud solutions align with long-term technology strategy and reference architectures, leveraging strong expertise across compute, storage, networking, and identity services.

Performs other related duties and projects as assigned.

All employees have the responsibility and the accountability to serve as risk managers for their businesses by understanding, reporting, responding to, managing and monitoring the risk they encounter daily as required by F.N.B. Corporation’s risk management program. F.N.B. Corporation is committed to achieving superior levels of compliance by adhering to regulatory laws and guidelines. Compliance with regulatory laws and company procedures is a required component of all position descriptions.

Minimum Level of Education Required to Perform the Primary Responsibilities of this Position:

BA or BS

Minimum # of Years of Job Related Experience Required to Perform the Primary Responsibilities of this Position:

7

Skills Required to Perform the Primary Responsibilities of this Position:

Ability to work and multi-task in a fast paced environment

Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal

Excellent management skills

Excellent project management skills

Excellent organizational, analytical and interpersonal skills

Detail-oriented

Licensures/Certifications Required to Perform the Primary Responsibilities of this Position:

Preferred, ITIL, Terraform Certified Professional, AWS Solution Architect

Physical Requirements or Work Conditions Beyond Traditional Office Work:

N/A

Equal Employment Opportunity (EEO):

It is the policy of F.N.B. Corporation (FNB) and its affiliates not to discriminate against any employee or applicant for employment because of age, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, disability, veteran status or any other category protected by law. It is also the policy of FNB and its affiliates to employ and advance in employment all persons regardless of their status as individuals with disabilities or veterans, and to base all employment decisions only on valid job requirements. FNB provides all applicants and employees a discrimination and harassment free workplace.

FNB will not provide sponsorship for employment-based visas for this position; only candidates who are legally authorized to work in the U.S. will be considered.