Platform Engineer at Empower

Setup: Remote, Hybrid
Type: Full-time
Level: not_specified

Description

Empower is seeking a Platform Engineer specializing in DevOps and CI/CD pipeline engineering for their Lean Non-Prod platform. The role focuses on creating, maintaining, and standardizing CI/CD pipelines, with a particular emphasis on GitLab, Jenkins, and ArgoCD. Responsibilities include developing reusable "golden pipeline" patterns, supporting various technology stacks like Terraform IaC, Maven, Node, ArgoCD, and Liquibase, with a current focus on establishing a reliable Liquibase pipeline for Oracle and PostgreSQL deployments.

Required Skills

Platform Engineering
DevOps
CI/CD Pipelines
GitLab
Jenkins
ArgoCD
Terraform IaC
Maven
Node.js
Liquibase
AWS
EKS
Kubernetes
Bash Scripting
Cloud Infrastructure (AWS)
Governed Pipeline Templates
Enterprise DevOps
Environment Promotion
Approvals
Governance
Security Controls

Additional Information

Required Previous Experiences: Practical experience designing, building, and maintaining CI/CD pipelines, especially in GitLab CI.
Understand how to build reusable, governed pipeline templates rather than one-off scripts.
Comfortable working in AWS environments, especially with EKS and Kubernetes-based workloads.
Infrastructure as Code experience is important, especially Terraform.
Security awareness is critical.
Kubernetes, runners, and pipeline execution experience are also valuable.
Preferred Qualifications: 3–5 years of platform engineering, DevOps, or SRE experience with hands-on CI/CD delivery.
Comfortable with GitLab CI, Jenkins, ArgoCD, Terraform, Kubernetes/EKS, scripting with Bash or Python, and cloud infrastructure in AWS.
Experience with Liquibase, Oracle, PostgreSQL, reusable pipeline frameworks, and enterprise security controls would make them especially relevant.