Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - DevOps
First seen by Alion on Nov 6, 2026. PTC scores A on the Alion truth index.
Job Description :
The Senior Engineer is responsible for deployment automation for deploying enterprise software on public cloud providers. Employees at this level are helping to advance and modernize PTC's cloud competencies. A well-rounded technical/functional skill set, and deep knowledge of public and private cloud capabilities are ideal for this position.
Responsibilities :
- Leverage experience to make recommendations on how to implement products in the cloud (private and public).
- Build Deployment Automation to realize the chosen architecture.
- Continuously improve the teams cloud capabilities in the areas of deployment automation, monitoring, log management, etc.
- Develop training and handoff material for supporting cloud functions (NOC, Incident Management, Sales, etc.).
- Work with R&D to develop standards for cloud readiness and product handoff procedures.
- Collaborate with portfolio team to bring new capabilities to the cloud offerings.
Skills and Knowledge :
- Ability to understand and build high level cloud architectures.
- Willingness to learn and experiment with cutting edge cloud technologies.
Preferred Technologies:
- Basic command line Linux Skills.
- Object Oriented Programming (Java, Python, Ruby, C#).
- Kubernetes.
- Serverless Technologies (such as AWS Lambda's).
- Single Sign On (PingFederate preferred).
- Public Cloud providers (Azure and/or AWS).
- Deployment technologies: Terraform (preferred), SaltStack (preferred), Chef, Ansible, Puppet.
- Monitoring: PSM/Dynatrace (preferred), Zabbix, Datadog.
- Load Balancing: Azure App Gateway, AWS ELB/ALB, nginx, haproxy.
Basic Qualifications :
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent in Engineering / Computer Science.
- 5 - 8 years of software industry experience.
- 3 - 5 years of public cloud experience.
Skills
Cloud Services, DevOps, IT Automation, Kubernetes, Linux, Azure, AWS, Monitoring Tools, Load Balancing Tools, Terraform