Sr. Staff Cloud Platform Engineer - Security at UKG
Atlanta, GA
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Jun 28, 2026
Atlanta, GA
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior advisory role focused on resilience architecture across multiple distributed SaaS product and enterprise teams. The work centers on designing high-availability and fast-failover solutions primarily on GCP (GKE, Compute Engine, CloudSQL), reviewing infrastructure-as-code implementations, and guiding DevOps and SRE teams on chaos testing and failover validation for mission-critical systems — without holding direct management authority over those teams.
Senior level · National
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How this req sits in the market our data
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What the occupation pays Median $135,980 (middle half $105,210–$171,980).
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Why we read it this way (5)
The role is framed as an advisory/consulting architect position with no direct reports — it is not a people-management role. The primary day-to-day work is designing and validating resilient cloud infrastructure (IaC, GKE, GCP services), which maps most closely to Software Developers (15-1252) given the emphasis on building and shipping infrastructure-as-code and resilience automation. 15-1244 (Network and Computer Systems Administrators) is a genuine runner-up given the heavy network topology, HA, and operations-advisory content.
AWS and Azure are explicitly called 'highly desirable' / 'familiarity… desirable', so they are marked preferred despite appearing alongside the required GCP content.
Chaos testing, API gateways, caching, messaging/queuing, and CI/CD appear under a 'Broad HA Domain Exposure' framing described as 'familiarity assessing or designing' — treated as preferred.
No compensation, employment type, degree requirement, or security clearance is mentioned in the posting.
Ignored 1 non-technology phrase(s) as skills (responsibilities/concepts, not named tools): high availability architecture.
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