Our vision for the future is based on the idea that transforming financial lives starts by giving our people the freedom to transform their own. We have a flexible work environment, and fluid career paths. We not only encourage but celebrate internal mobility. We also recognize the importance of purpose, well-being, and work-life balance. Within Empower and our communities, we work hard to create a welcoming and inclusive environment, and our associates dedicate thousands of hours to volunteering for causes that matter most to them.

Chart your own path and grow your career while helping more customers achieve financial freedom. Empower Yourself.

This role contributes to the design, implementation, and support of cloud-native platform capabilities that enable engineering teams to build, deploy, and operate scalable, secure applications. The Platform Engineer partners with cross-functional teams to improve infrastructure-as-code, CI/CD pipelines, and observability practices while supporting the organization’s transition toward SRE principles.

Essential Functions

• Implement and maintain infrastructure-as-code using tools such as Terraform and GitLab CI/CD
• Support containerized platforms (e.g., Kubernetes/EKS) and microservices-based architectures
• Collaborate with engineering teams to improve system reliability, scalability, and deployment processes
• Contribute to observability practices including monitoring, logging, and alerting
• Assist in modernizing legacy systems toward cloud-native architectures
• Troubleshoot platform and deployment issues and support incident resolution
• Document platform standards, processes, and best practices

Qualifications

• Experience with AWS or comparable cloud platforms
• Familiarity with Kubernetes (EKS preferred) and container orchestration
• Experience with CI/CD pipelines and Infrastructure-as-Code practices
• Basic understanding of SRE principles and observability tooling
• Software engineering or scripting experience (e.g., Python, Go, Bash)
• 2-4 years of experience
• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience

This job operates in a professional office environment.

This job description is not intended to be an exhaustive list of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications of the job. The employer has the right to revise this job description at any time. You will be evaluated in part based on your performance of the responsibilities and/or tasks listed in this job description. You may be required to perform other duties that are not included on this job description. The job description is not a contract for employment, and either you or the employer may terminate employment at any time, for any reason, as per terms and conditions of your employment contract

We are an equal opportunity employer with a commitment to diversity.  All individuals, regardless of personal characteristics, are encouraged to apply.  All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to age, race, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, sexual orientation, gender, gender identity, gender expression, marital status, pregnancy, religion, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other status protected by applicable state or local law.