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Upbound Group, Inc. is headquartered in Plano, Texas.\r\nABOUT THE POSITION\r\nThe Platform Engineering II is a lead individual contributor responsible for driving the development, maintenance, and optimization of platform infrastructure and services. This individual will take ownership of significant platform initiatives, lead design efforts for new features, and actively mentor junior engineers. They will play a critical role in evolving our platform's reliability, efficiency, and security, and in defining and implementing best practices that significantly accelerate the Software Development Life Cycle (SDLC). This role also serves as a key builder of AI-powered platform capabilities, including the design, integration, and ongoing maintenance of AI components embedded in the CI/CD pipeline.\r\nKEY RESPONSIBILITIES\r\nLead the design, implementation, and management of complex, scalable, and secure platform components across cloud environments (e.g., AWS, GCP).\r\nDrive the adoption and continuous improvement of infrastructure as code (IaC) practices, developing reusable modules and patterns.\r\nArchitect and implement advanced CI/CD pipelines, including GitOps principles and progressive delivery strategies.\r\nDesign, implement, and optimize comprehensive observability solutions, ensuring robust monitoring, logging, tracing, and alerting.\r\nProvide expert-level troubleshooting and perform root cause analysis for critical platform issues.\r\nLead architectural discussions and propose innovative solutions to complex platform challenges.\r\nEnsure high availability, disaster recovery, and performance of critical platform services through proactive engineering.\r\nCollaborate extensively with DevEx, development and security teams, acting as a technical liaison to integrate applications with platform services and provide strategic guidance.\r\nMentor junior and mid-level engineers, fostering their technical growth and promoting best practices within the team.\r\nEvaluate and recommend new technologies, tools, and processes to enhance platform capabilities.\r\nDesign, build, and operate AI-powered components integrated into the CI/CD pipeline, including LLM and MCP-based automation capabilities.\r\nBuild and maintain the Developer Portal, including service scaffolding, golden path templates, and adoption metrics to improve developer experience\r\nREQUIRED SKILLS & QUALIFICATIONS\r\nBachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent practical experience.\r\n6+ years of progressive experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or SRE, with 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