Entry Level Platform Engineer Jobs

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Platform Engineer

An individual contributor who will serve as a hands-on technical member of the SMAI Platform Engineering team. In this role, you will help build, operate, and maintain the platforms that power Micron's analytics and AI workloads. You will contribute to platform reliability and scalability through day-to-day engineering, collaborative problem solving, and close partnership with solution architects, project teams, and multi-functional partners.

Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with global platform teams, customers, partners, and vendors to deliver effective technical solutions.
• Know the latest platform roadmaps, emerging technologies, and new service offerings; evaluate and recommend adoption opportunities.
• Partner with solution architects to design, implement, and optimize solutions across IaaS, PaaS, SaaS, and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Document findings, operational procedures, guidelines, and reusable patterns while providing feedback to vendors and internal teams.
• Deliver high-quality platform support by managing customer requests, maintaining service standards, and implementing controlled platform adjustments.
• Monitor platform performance, observability, costs, and resource utilization to identify optimization opportunities and improve reliability.
• Collaborate with multi-functional teams to ensure seamless operations, scalable architectures, and automation, including AI-driven business solutions.
• Implement and maintain security controls, including RBAC and industry-standard frameworks, to protect intellectual property and sensitive data.

Minimum Qualifications:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, with 2–4 years of Platform Administration and/or Cloud Engineering experience.
• Hands-on experience with Apache Kafka and Kubernetes, including administration, deployment, scaling, monitoring, and resolving challenges in production environments.
• Experience administering public cloud platforms and implementing Infrastructure as Code (IaC) using Terraform.
• Familiarity with Machine Learning, Data Science, Generative AI, and Agentic AI concepts, including supporting AI/ML platform workloads.
Strong collaboration, communication, documentation, and problem-solving skills, with a continuous learning approach and the ability to independently deliver technical projects.

Preferred Qualifications:

• Strong foundation or administration of Unix.

As a world leader in the semiconductor industry, Micron is dedicated to your personal wellbeing and professional growth. Micron benefits are designed to help you stay well, provide peace of mind and help you prepare for the future. We offer a choice of medical, dental and vision plans in all locations enabling team members to select the plans that best meet their family healthcare needs and budget. Micron also provides benefit programs that help protect your income if you are unable to work due to illness or injury, and paid family leave. Additionally, Micron benefits include a robust paid time-off program and paid holidays. For additional information regarding the Benefit programs available, please see the Benefits Guide posted on micron.com/careers/benefits.

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