Position
Platform Engineer / Lead Platform Engineer
Function
SWENG — Software Engineering, Holcim Group IT
Portfolio
Plants of Tomorrow / Smart Operations · Strategic Portfolios
Reports to
Head of Software Engineering
Team
Flat team of senior individual contributors. No line management within the team.
Platform Engineer
Job Description
1. Objective
Deliver a multi-cloud and edge platform on which Holcim's business products are developed and run, at enterprise quality and startup efficiency.
The measurable outcome is product teams building, deploying and operating independently, on infrastructure that is secure, reliable, compliant and cost-effective.
The role sits within Group IT and delivers through the organisation, not around it: in close collaboration with product teams, corporate security, legal and data privacy, finance, and regional and integral IT, and aligned with Holcim policies, standards and legal framework.
2. Scope
Cloud
GCP (primary), AWS
Edge
Industrial plant sites worldwide
Platform estate
~100 platform services across 10 technical domains, ~30 environments
Consumers
~55 business products, 30+ product teams operating in self-service
Platform framework
In-house engineering platform: policy-as-code provisioning across all managed services, self-service interfaces for product teams, safety gates, state verification and immutable audit evidence
Operating model
Architecture principles and reference designs, engineering standards and naming policy, specification and peer-review process, verification and validation records, document taxonomy, master data registries, multi-jurisdiction legal and compliance framework
Team
6 engineers
Technical domains: compute, networking, data storage, data pipelines, edge infrastructure, identity and access, security, secrets management, CI/CD, developer tooling, observability, cost engineering, platform framework.
3. Professional Standard
The role is defined for experienced engineers who wor
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