Systems Engineer III - Platform Product Engineer (Remote)
Summary
Platform engineer at First Citizens Bank building, integrating, and automating the enterprise Internal Developer Platform — self-service service catalog, golden paths, GitOps, IaC, and platform APIs, with integrations across CI/CD, security, observability, and cloud. Remote within the United States; base pay $125k–$155k.
This is a remote role open for multiple markets across the United States.
The Platform Product Engineer III will help engineer, integrate, automate and supports the enterprise Internal Developer Platform. The role is part of a team that builds self-service capabilities, service catalog components, templates, golden paths, automation workflows, and developer experience solutions.
Responsibilities & Qualifications
Duties & Responsibilities:
Ideal candidate is a hands-on platform engineer experienced in automation, APIs, developer portals, GitOps, IaC, and engineering productivity initiatives.
Key Responsibilities
- Platform Development (35%)
- Platform Integrations (25%)
- Automation Engineering (20%)
- Platform Adoption (10%)
- Operational Excellence (10%)
Qualifications:
Bachelor's Degree and 4 years' experience OR High School Diploma or GED/Equivalent and 8 years' experience in systems engineering.
Technical Skills
- 6+ years systems engineering, automation engineering, DevOps, platform engineering or infrastructure engineering.
- Enterprise architecture leadership; integration architecture; mentoring senior engineers
- IDP Architecture
- Platform Engineering
- Service Catalog Architecture
- Golden Paths
- Platform APIs
- GitOps
- IaC
- Platform Automation
- Integration Architecture
Preferred Skills
Scripting, Policy-as-Code, Observability, Kubernetes, AI-assisted engineering tools.
Platform Integration Experience
Build and support integrations across CI/CD, automation, security, observability, cloud and service management platforms.
Additional Information
This job posting is expected to remain active for 14 days from the initial posting date listed above. If it is necessary to extend this deadline, the posting will remain active as appropriate. Job postings may come down early due to business need or a high volume of applicants.
The base pay for this position is generally between $125,000 and $155,000. Actual starting base pay will be determined based on skills, experience, location, and other non-discriminatory factors permitted by law. For some roles, total compensation may also include variable incentives, bonuses, benefits, and/or other awards as outlined in the offer of employment.
Benefits are an integral part of total rewards and First Citizens Bank is committed to providing a competitive, thoughtfully designed and quality benefits program to meet the needs of our associates. More information can be found at https://jobs.firstcitizens.com/benefits.