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General Motors · 14 hours ago

Senior Platform Engineer

General Motors is a leading automotive company committed to creating a world with Zero Crashes, Zero Emissions, and Zero Congestion. They are seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to manage on-prem and cloud applications within their HRIT organization, focusing on building, maintaining, and deploying applications while ensuring security and operational efficiency.

AutomotiveElectric VehicleInformation ServicesManufacturingTransportation
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Responsibilities

Build and maintain various on prem COTs products on Unix or Windows Systems essential for business operations
Deploy applications as code to the cloud using terraform and similar tools
Assist in application migrations to SAAS products
Create, maintain, and improve automation and operational scripts (Bash, Python, or similar) for deployments, backups, monitoring, rollbacks, and routine maintenance
Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines for various applications and services
Monitor platform health and data pipelines; implement alerting, capacity planning, and performance tuning
Plan and execute backups, disaster recovery drills, and restore procedures supported applications
Enforce security best practices: secrets management, role-based access control, patching, vulnerability remediation, and audit logging
Troubleshoot incidents across integration stack, perform root cause analysis, and produce post-incident reports
Maintain accurate operational documentation, runbooks, playbooks, and run regular housekeeping tasks
Mentor junior admins/engineers and collaborate cross-functionally to deliver integration solutions

Qualification

TerraformLinuxCI/CD toolingScriptingWindows ServersPythonNetworking fundamentalsSecurity practicesGithubSSO/SAMLBashTroubleshootingDocumentation skills

Required

Scripting, Terraform, Linux, Windows Servers, Github, Python, SSO/SAML
5+ years of production systems administration and platform support experience (or equivalent)
Demonstrated engineering expertise in evaluating, designing, and implementing deployment architectures for a variety of complex data and application platforms
Strong Linux system administration (RHEL/CentOS) and networking fundamentals
Proficiency with scripting and automation (Bash and one or more: Python, Perl)
Experience with CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitLab CI, ArgoCD, or similar)
Solid understanding of security practices for data platforms (RBAC, secrets management, TLS, patching)
Excellent troubleshooting, communication, and documentation skills

Preferred

Experience in BrowserStack
Experience in OTEL / DataDog
Experience with Lenel Software

Company

General Motors

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General Motors is an automotive company that designs, produces, markets, and distributes vehicles and vehicle parts.

Funding

Current Stage
Public Company
Total Funding
$8.51B
Key Investors
US Department of Energy
2025-05-05Post Ipo Debt· $2B
2024-10-31Grant· $8M
2024-07-11Grant· $500M

Leadership Team

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Mary Barra
Chair and Chief Executive Officer
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Tony Cervone
Senior Vice President, Global Communications
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