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Data Platform Engineer/Platform Lead - Digital Products
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A Platform Engineer is responsible for the development of platforms that support the needs and use cases of different engineering teams across the organization. Creates reusable tools and workflows to streamline operational needs and facilitate automation tasks, supporting scalability of DevOps practices.
$135,044 / year median in Pennsylvania
Job Description
Data Platform Engineer/Platform Lead
- Digital Products
- Full Time Penske
- Reading, PA Posted on 09/06/26 (
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PAWLGSsS2G) Why Join Digital Products at Penske Most people know Penske for our big yellow trucks. But we're so much more than that. At Penske we have a 50-plus year history of leading the transportation and supply-chain industry, delivering world-class and award-winning technology solutions. What most people don't know, we are just as much a datapany as we are a transportation and supply chainpany. We collect and analyze billions of datapoints each year, through over 300+ advanced analytical models and integrate insights from our fleet, maintenance operations, and logisticsworks to give customers a moreplete view of their supply chains. That connected intelligence allows us to anticipate issues, optimize resources, and deliver reliable oues across transportation and logistics for our customers. Penske continues to invest in, and grow, our digital products- and we need talent at all levels to help us advance and continue to lead our industry.
Position Summary:
As a Penske Associate Data Platform Engineer/Platform Lead within the Digital Productsanization, you will play a key role in designing, evolving, and supporting data platforms that enable our digital products and SaaS solutions. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including software engineers, system administrators, and operations teams, to ensure the seamless integration of development and operations activities. You will contribute to platform design, troubleshootplex production issues, and rmend improvements based on industry trends and product needs. This role requires a balance of deep technical expertise, product mindset, and the ability to operate effectively within a d-responsibility model across Digital Products and Enterprise IT. This position is based out of our corporate location in Reading, PA. This is an office-first position, in office at least 4 days a week.Major Responsibilities:
Technology- Design and implementwork and connectivity solutions supporting digital products and SaaS platforms
- Translate product and engineering requirements into scalable, secure, and high-performing infrastructure designs
- Architect and support hybrid and cloud-nativeworking solutions across cloud platforms and enterprise data centers
- Ensure high availability, resiliency, and performance of product-facing systems and services
- Evaluate and implement modernworking technologies (e.g., Service mesh, zero trust architectures)
- Analyze, engineer, and optimize software-definedworking and cloud-based datamunication solutions
- Solveplex technical problems involving distributed systems and multiple dependencies Project Management
- Develop implementation plans, testing strategies, and timelines forplex, cross-functional initiatives
- Partner with product and engineering teams throughout the product lifecycle, from design through production
- Lead initiatives from concept through deployment and ongoing optimization
- Contribute to technology and infrastructure roadmaps aligned to product strategy
- Support continuous delivery through automation and repeatable infrastructure practices Analytics
- Monitor and analyze system,work, and application performance across product environments
- Establish baselines and performance benchmarks aligned to product SLAs/SLOs
- Analyze traffic patterns, latency, and system behavior to optimize performance and cost
- Support capacity planning, forecasting, and scaling strategies
- Lead and support disaster recovery planning and resilience testing across environments Customer Experience
- Collaborate with product teams, stakeholders, and enterprise partners to understand current and future needs
- Act as a technical advisor on performance, reliability, and scalability of product platforms
- Partner with Enterprise IT teams to align on standards, security, and infrastructure capabilities
- Communicate effectively across technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Participate in incident response, root cause analysis, and continuous improvement efforts
- Other projects as assigned by leadership
Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or equivalent experience required
- 7+ years' experience as a DevOps Engineer
- 2+ years leadinganizational implementations of DevOps platforms and pipelines.
- Proven experience as a DevOps Architect or similar role, designing and implementing DevOps practices inplex software development environments.
- Strong knowledge of DevOps principles, continuous integration, continuous delivery, and infrastructure automation
- Hands-on experience with containerization technologies like Docker and container orchestration platforms like Kubees, OpenShift
- Solid understanding of cloudputing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure, GCP). Hands on experience with cloud infrastructure a plus.
- Familiarity with monitoring and logging tools, such as Dynatrace, Prometheus, Grafana, ELK stack
- Deep knowledge of Agile principles and practices and the ability to transfer that understanding at all levels of theanization.
- Develop and maintain documentation for DevOps processes, prores, and architecture to facilitate knowledge sharing and onboarding of new team members.
- Identify and resolve technical issues related to infrastructure, deployment, and release management in a timely manner.
- Collaborate with stakeholders to define "security as code" standards to enable security andpliance within the DevOps environment.
- Mentor and provide guidance to software engineers and operations teams on DevOps best practices, automation, and deployment methodologies.
- Automated collection of audit &pliance artifacts.
PCI DSS, SOX & GDPR
- Excellentmunication and interpersonal skills, with the ability to collaborate effectively with cross-functional teams and stakeholders.
- Relevant certifications (e.g., AWS Certified DevOps Engineer, Certified Kubees Administrator) are a plus.
- Ability to work independently and collaboratively in a cross-functional, matrixed environment
- Strongmunication skills and ability to partner with both technical and non-technical stakeholders
- Regular, predictable, full attendance is an essential function of the job
- Willingness to travel as necessary, work the required scle, work at the specific location required,plete Penske employment application, submit to a background investigation (to include past employment,cation, and criminal history) and drug screening are required
Physical Requirements:
- The physical and mental demands described are representative of those that must be met by an associate to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable amodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions.
- The associate will be required to: read;municate verbally and/or in written form; remember and analyze certain information; and remember and understand certain instructions or guidelines.
- While performing the duties of this job, the associate may be required to stand, walk, and sit. The associate is frequently required to use hands to touch, handle, and feel, and to reach with hands and arms. The associate must be able to occasionally lift and/or move up to 25lbs/12kg.
- Specific vision abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, peripheral vision, depth perception and the ability to adjust focus. Penske is an Equal Opportunity Employer. To Learn More
About Penske's Digital Products:
www.pensketruckleasing/digital-experience/
About Penske:
www.gopenske/ourpany/ About Penske Truck Leasing/Transportation Solutions Penske Truck Leasing/Transportation Solutions is a premier global transportation provider that delivers essential and innovative transportation, logistics and technology services to helppanies and people move forward. With headquarters in Reading, PA, Penske and its associates are driven by a dedication to excellence and amitment to customer success. Visit Go Penske to learn more.Job Category:
Information TechnologyJob Family:
General AdministrationAddress:
100 Gundy DrivePrimary Location:
US-PA-ReadingEmployer:
Penske Truck Leasing Co., L.P.Req ID:
2604219Benefits
- Dental Insurance