Senior Platform Engineer

Pacific Life

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Work type
On-site
Location
Newport Beach, CA
Salary
$137,610–$168,190 / yr
Posted
3 days ago
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Confirmed live yesterday

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How this pay compares to similar roles

Similar $184k
This role $153k
$112k most similar roles pay here $237k

This role pays less than 62% of similar roles. Most pay $149,000–$219,125 — the shaded band above. At the midpoint, this role pays about $153k versus about $184k for comparable roles.

Based on 240 similar postings.

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About Pacific Life

Pacific Life is a life insurance company offering a wide range of life insurance, annuity, and investment products and services to individuals, businesses, and pension plans. Industry: Life Insurance & Annuities

Pacific Life currently has 25 open roles on FindRole.

Listed pay typically runs $138,150–$168,850 across 23 roles with salary data.

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At a glance

TL;DR · Senior Platform Engineer

Sr. Platform Engineer joins the Enterprise Technology team to design, engineer, and support enterprise platform capabilities focused on workload orchestration and managed file transfer services. This role involves collaborating with application teams, architects, infrastructure engineers, and business stakeholders to deliver scalable, secure, and reliable solutions while establishing engineering standards and driving modernization efforts. The daily responsibilities include integrating workloads into orchestration platforms, developing reusable patterns, managing lifecycle upgrades, and ensuring compliance within highly regulated environments. Key technical competencies include experience with workload orchestration, job scheduling, automation platforms, and managed file transfer technologies. The candidate will also manage a shared backlog in an Agile environment, create technical architecture documentation, and implement monitoring and recovery strategies to ensure operational excellence. This role solves critical business process challenges by providing robust infrastructure for enterprise-wide data movement and task execution.

What you'll do

  • Design, implement, and maintain enterprise platform capabilities for workload orchestration and managed file transfer services.
  • Develop reusable platform patterns, engineering standards, and best practices to improve operational efficiency.
  • Integrate applications and workloads into enterprise platforms while ensuring reliability, performance, and resiliency.
  • Deliver new capabilities, system enhancements, lifecycle upgrades, and operational improvements from the shared backlog.
  • Ensure all enterprise platforms meet security, governance, risk management, and compliance requirements.
  • Monitor platform health to proactively identify opportunities for improved performance, stability, and readiness.
  • Create and maintain technical architecture documentation, support procedures, and knowledge articles.
  • Implement monitoring, alerting, recovery strategies, and support models to drive operational excellence.

What we're looking for

  • Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related field, or equivalent work experience.
  • 5+ years of experience designing, implementing, and supporting enterprise technology platforms.
  • Experience with workload orchestration, job scheduling, automation platforms, or managed file transfer technologies.
  • Strong understanding of enterprise systems integration, operational support, and platform engineering principles.
  • Experience implementing solutions in highly regulated environments with a focus on security, governance, and risk management.
  • Ability to analyze complex technical challenges and develop scalable, reliable solutions.
  • Experience working in Agile environments and managing work through prioritized backlogs.
  • Strong communication and collaboration skills to work effectively across technical and business teams.

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