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The role is best suited for a senior DevOps/platform hybrid who can design reusable platformcapabilities, improve developer workflows, and strengthen the reliability, scalability, and cost-efficiency of cloud environments used across engineering.You will lead complex infrastructure and developer-enablement initiatives, define team best practices, drive adoption of platform patterns across teams, and raise the standard for cloud operations, observability, and incident response.Key Responsibilities Design and evolve reusable platform capabilities that improve developer experience, deliveryconsistency, and operational reliability. Lead technical design reviews for platform and infrastructure initiatives and help drive soundarchitectural decisions across teams. Define and implement team best practices for CI/CD, infrastructure automation, cloud operations, and platform guardrails. Build and maintain scalable Infrastructure as Code patterns, shared modules, and deployment workflows that 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tooling Developer Enablement: internal platform tooling, automation services, reusable templates, and workflow guardrails AI-Assisted Engineering: AI-enabled tooling for scripting, troubleshooting, documentation, incident analysis, and workflow accelerationAI-Assisted Engineering and Platform Enablement Evaluate AI-enabled tooling that can improve platform engineering workflows, operational efficiency, and developer enablement. Identify practical uses of AI for infrastructure automation, incident analysis, troubleshooting,documentation, and workflow acceleration. Help define safe team patterns and guardrails for AI use in DevOps and platform engineeringworkflows. Validate AI-generated infrastructure definitions, scripts, recommendations, and operational outputs before adoption. Ensure AI-assisted workflows align with security, privacy, access control, and compliancerequirements.Required Skills & Qualifications Strong experience in DevOps, platform engineering, cloud 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