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Software Development Platform Administration/Architect
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What they do
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.
$161,754 / year median in California
Job Description
San Leandro, California, United States of America Lake Forest, California, United States of America Johnson City, Tennessee, United States of America Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America Full time R014755
- AVEVA is creating software trusted by over 90% of leading industrial companies.
Salary Range:
- $117,600.00 - $196,200.00
- T•his pay range represents the minimum and maximum compensation that the position offers, and final compensation can vary within the range depending on work location, job experience, skills, and relevant educational attainment and/or training.
- Software Development Platform Architect & Administrator
- Key Responsibilities
- Platform Administration & Governance
- + •Administer and maintain Azure DevOps and GitHub organizations, including projects, repositories, pipelines, permissions, and policies.
- + •Manage platform governance, including branch protections, environment controls, and repository standards.
- + •Support onboarding, configuration, and lifecycle management of development tools, integrations, and automation services.
- Identity, Access, and Security Management
- + •Manage and govern service principals, managed identities, and application registrations used across CI/CD and automation workflows.
- + •Implement best practices for token lifecycle management, including PATs, OAuth tokens, GitHub App tokens, and workload identities.
- + •Enforce secure authentication and authorization patterns, including least privilege access, role-based access control (RBAC), and conditional access policies.
- + •Monitor and audit identity usage across platforms to detect anomalies, expired credentials, or misconfigurations.
- + •Partner with security teams to ensure compliance with enterprise identity standards and regulatory requirements.
SDLC & CI/CD
Enablement- + •Support teams in implementing and optimizing SDLC processes aligned with organizational standards.
- + •Build, maintain, and troubleshoot CI/CD pipelines across Azure DevOps and GitHub Actions.
- + •Improve build, test, and deployment workflows to increase reliability, repeatability, and speed.
- + •Promote best practices in automation, artifact management, and release engineering.
- Security & Compliance
- + •Implement and maintain security tooling such as SAST, dependency scanning, secrets detection, and policy enforcement.
- + •Ensure secure configuration of pipelines, runners/agents, and platform integrations.
- + •Assess, govern, and securely integrate AI-assisted development tools (e.
- + •Participate in incident response and root cause analysis for platform or identity related issues.
- + •Document standards, patterns, and platform configurations to support operational excellence.
- Architecture & Continuous Improvement
- + •Contribute to the design and evolution of the software development platform architecture.
- + •Evaluate new tools, integrations, and identity models to improve developer productivity and platform scalability.
- + •Identify opportunities to simplify workflows, reduce friction, and standardize platform usage across teams.
- Qualifications
- Required
- + •Hands-on experience administering Azure DevOps and GitHub in an enterprise environment.
- + •Strong understanding of CI/CD concepts, pipelines, and automation workflows.
- + •Familiarity with SDLC methodologies and development lifecycle tooling.
- + •Experience managing service principals, tokens, and identity based automation.
- + •Understanding of identity and access management (IAM) principles, including RBAC, least privilege, birthright, and credential hygiene.
- + •Ability•to troubleshoot platform, pipeline, identity, integration issues, and REST APIs.
- + •Experience with security tooling such as code scanning, dependency management, or secrets detection.
- + •Strong communication skills and a collaborative mindset.
- + •Scripting experience (PowerShell, Bash, Python) for automation and identity governance.
- + •Applies Azure CLI to manage service principals, role assignments, and identity policies supporting secure DevOps architectures across Azure DevOps, GitHub, and Azure services.
- Preferred
- + •Experience with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, ARM/Bicep) for platform and identity provisioning.
- + •Knowledge of cloud platforms, especially Azure and Microsoft Entra ID.
- + •Exposure to workload identity federation and modern token based authentication patterns.
- + •Experience administering Identity Governance platforms, including ConductorOne and SailPoint, with a focus on enterprise•‑level access governance and platform administration•+ •Experience integrating GHAS findings into Azure DevOps, SIEM/SOAR platforms, and secure SDLC pipelines to drive automated remediation and continuous hardening.
- + •Experience applying Hypervelocity engineering principles to accelerate developer workflows, reduce cognitive load, and streamline platform operations across Azure DevOps and GitHub.
- + •Experience designing and implementing Azure DevOps pipeline decorators to enforce organization‑wide governance, inject mandatory security and compliance tasks, and standardize CI/CD behavior across all pipelines without requiring changes from individual development teams.
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- R D at AVEVA
- Our global team of 2000+ developers work on an incredibly diverse portfolio of over 75 industrial automation and engineering products, which cover everything from data management to 3D design.
Find out more:
aveva.com/en/about/careers/r-and-d-careers/- USA Benefits include:
- Flex work hours, 20 days PTO rising to 25 with service, three paid volunteering days, primary and secondary parental leave, well-being support, medical, dental, vision, and 401K.
Find out more:
aveva.com/en/about/careers/benefits/- Hybrid working
- We work in a hybrid way at AVEVA.
- Hiring process
- Interested?
Find out more:
aveva.com/en/about/careers/hiring-process- About AVEVA
- AVEVA is a global leader in industrial software with more than 6,500 employees in over 40 countries.