Lead Platform Engineer – Cloud & Developer Platforms (Kubernetes Required)
The Guardian Life Insurance Company of America · Holmdel, NJ
$118,980–$195,465from the description
Jul 19, 2026
Holmdel, NJ
Jul 21, 2026
What this job asks for AI summary
A senior individual contributor role focused on owning and evolving an enterprise Kubernetes platform built on Amazon EKS, while also handling broader platform engineering work — automation pipelines, Linux and container troubleshooting, CI/CD tooling (Jenkins, GitHub Actions), Terraform, and serverless workflows on AWS. The position suits an experienced platform or cloud engineer comfortable leading incident response, mentoring peers, and collaborating across application, security, and architecture teams at enterprise scale.
Senior level · 7+ years · Remote · Full-time
“or” means any one of them counts — you don't need all of them.
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How this req sits in the market our data
Roughly 19,500 people nationally plausibly meet what this posting asks for (software developers). range 11,700–29,200
Applicant volume Moderate — A normal amount of company. The rare requirements below are what will separate a shortlisted application from the rest.
Most people in this occupation already list these. Still required — just not what gets you shortlisted.
What the occupation pays Median $138,970 (middle half $107,524–$175,762). This posting is about at that midpoint.
Estimated from BLS employment for this occupation and area, per-skill prevalence across our listing corpus, and published wage benchmarks — as of Jul 28, 2026. It is a model, not a headcount.
Why we read it this way (7)
The job posting specifies a hybrid schedule (3 days/week in Holmdel, NJ or Bethlehem, PA), but the caller has declared this a fully-remote role; remote=true has been set accordingly and no metro is reported.
The title 'Lead Platform Engineer' carries no standard seniority level word (Junior/Mid/Senior/Staff/Principal), so the title states no level. The 7+ years requirement and scope (senior escalation point, mentoring, enterprise-scale platform ownership) support a Senior classification.
Jenkins and GitHub Actions appear together in the requirements section as 'Jenkins and/or GitHub Actions' — each is emitted as a separate skill with the other listed as an alternative, since either alone satisfies the gate.
Terraform is listed with 'or equivalent tools' — common substitutes (Pulumi, CloudFormation) are captured in alternatives.
Helm, GitHub (as a platform), and Groovy appear in the narrative/responsibilities sections rather than the explicit 'You Have (Must Have)' block, so they are marked preferred.
The role is classified as 15-1252 Software Developers because the primary day-to-day work is building and shipping platform software (CI/CD pipelines, IaC, automation tooling, Kubernetes platform components) — not merely operating infrastructure someone else built. 15-1244 is noted as a runner-up given the operational and SRE flavoring.
Caller marked this a fully-remote role — scored against the national candidate pool.
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