UiPath Platform Engineer
Role summary
The Senior UiPath Platform Engineer will be the primary owner of enterprise automation platforms, ensuring their security, stability, scalability, and compliance. This role involves leading the installation, configuration, administration, and optimization of UiPath Automation Cloud and hybrid environments, including components like Orchestrator and Test Suite. Responsibilities extend to cloud infrastructure, CI/CD pipeline development using tools like Jenkins and GitHub Actions, and enforcing security and compliance standards. The engineer will also provide Tier-3 support, conduct root-cause analysis for production incidents, and mentor other engineers on best practices in platform reliability and DevOps.
Role : Senior UiPath Platform Engineer – Automation & Cloud Reliability
Location : Charlotte, NC
Primary owner of enterprise automation platforms, infrastructure reliability, CI/CD, and operational excellence. This role ensures UiPath, automation services, and supporting infrastructure are secure, stable, scalable, and compliant.
Key Responsibilities
- Automation Platform Engineering (Primary)
- Lead installation, configuration, administration, and optimization of UiPath Automation Cloud and hybrid/on‑prem environments.
- Own Orchestrator, Maestro, Test Suite, Automation Hub, Insights, Agentic AI integrations, and related components.
- Lead platform readiness assessments, capacity planning, and onboarding of new automation workloads.
- Drive platform upgrades, migrations (on‑prem → cloud), patching cycles, and performance tuning.
- Act as Tier‑3 platform support, leading root-cause analysis and permanent remediation for production incidents.
- Cloud, Infrastructure & Reliability Engineering (Primary)
- Own server and environment provisioning, configuration, patching, and lifecycle management.
- Design cloud-ready and hybrid infrastructure supporting automation and AI workloads.
- Implement scalability strategies, high availability, DR, and SLA-backed monitoring.
- Deploy and operate containerized services (Docker/Kubernetes where applicable).
- Build observability dashboards (Grafana/Splunk/ELK) for uptime, performance, and capacity metrics.
- DevOps, CI/CD & SDLC Enablement (Primary)
- Design and maintain CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitHub Actions, and Harness.
- Automate packaging and deployment of UiPath processes, platform services, and internal tools.
- Enforce SDLC standards: branching strategies, automated testing, artifact management, and release governance.
- Integrate pipelines with IAM, secrets management, compliance, and security scanning.
- Security, Governance & Compliance (Primary)
- Enforce platform hardening, encryption standards, and least‑privilege access.
- Remediate vulnerabilities (e.g., PRISMA findings) within SLA.
- Ensure audit readiness, logging, identity protection, and operational risk compliance.
- Overlap & Collaboration (Secondary)
- Review GenAI/AI platform designs for scalability, security, and operability.
- Provide backup support for internal utilities, APIs, and reporting services.
- Mentor engineers on platform reliability, DevOps, and automation best practices.
Required Qualifications
- Deep hands-on experience with UiPath Automation Cloud / Orchestrator.
- Strong background in cloud platforms, server management, CI/CD, and DevOps.
- Experience with Kubernetes/Docker, monitoring, and enterprise security controls.
- Working knowledge of C#/.NET, Python, and SQL (supporting and reviewing).
- Strong incident management, troubleshooting, and cross-team collaboration skills.
