Location: Charlotte, NC, US, 28216; Corning, NY, US, 14831
Company: Corning
Requisition Number: 64313
Corning is vital to progress – in the industries we help shape and in the world we share. We invent life-changing technologies using materials science. Our scientific and manufacturing expertise, boundless curiosity, and commitment to purposeful invention place us at the center of the way the world interacts, works, learns, and lives.
The global Information Technology (IT) Function is leading efforts to align IT and Business Strategy, leverage IT investments, and optimize end to end business processes and associated information integration technologies. Through these efforts, IT helps to improve the competitive position of Corning's businesses through IT enabled processes.
Scope of Position:
As a Platform Engineer within Digital Delivery, you will create, deploy, and own technologies that enable and empower your peer scientists, engineers, and developers to manufacture things that matter. Platform Engineers are encouraged to experiment with the latest technologies, to constantly learn and expand their skills, and to use those skills in ever-changing ways.
Responsibilities:
- Produce scalable, highly available, repeatable cloud solutions.
- Develop, maintain, and evolve cloud configuration automation.
- Simplify and reinvent existing systems, processes, and tools to make things better for our users, developers, and scientists.
- Provide insight into best practices regarding cloud architecture, automation, observability, orchestration, operability, resilience, and security.
- Create, modify, and adapt cloud solutions to keep the organization aligned between the business requirements and technology capabilities.
- Facilitate meetings with business partners and technologies teams to build consensus and drive solution decisions without compromising delivery and/or service.
- Provide standards and platforms for future application development and help our peer engineers, developers, and scientists make the best use of technology.
- Align existing application portfolio to cloud standards and services.
- Be a highly motivated and active contributor across multiple work streams and manage deliveries accordingly across multiple projects.
- Evaluate new technologies, services, and products.
- Participate actively in team discussions, daily standups, periodic demos, and retrospectives.
- Participate in incident response efforts as needed.
- Detect and highlight new or unmitigated risks, analyze problems, define solutions, and articulate those in a clear discernible manner.
- Connect with all levels of the organization, senior leadership to professional staff.
- Keep abreast of business, operational, and technology trends that may affect the portfolio and strategy.
Education:
BS degree in IT, Computer Science or technology, or equivalent combination of education and experience.
Experience Required:
- 10+ years of support and management of highly scalable, highly available infrastructure, solutions and services.
- 5+ years of experience with Cloud (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) services and solutions.
- Understanding of Agile Methodologies and practices such as Scrum and Kanban.
Desired Skills:
- AWS Certified Solutions Architect Professional or equivalent experience.
- Deep knowledge of application architecture and development including application servers, middleware, systems management, monitoring, configuration management, capacity planning, and performance tuning, highly availability architectures.
- Demonstrable experience in using development languages such as Python, Perl, Java, Go, Ruby, Shell or other languages, to build reusable tools.
Travel Requirement: two week-long team gatherings per year.
This position does not support immigration sponsorship.
The range for this position is $122,180.00 - $167,998.00 assuming full-time status. Starting pay for the successful applicant is dependent on a variety of job-related factors, including but not limited to geographic location, market demands, experience, training, and education. The benefits available for this position are dependent on hours worked and may include medical, dental, vision, 401(k) plan, pension plan, life insurance coverage, disability benefits, and PTO.
Corning Puts YOU First!
We are committed to supporting your health, financial, career development, and life goals as you grow professionally and personally to achieve your highest potential. All benefits begin as soon as you start your career at Corning.
- Our monetary peer-to-peer recognition program is tied to our Values and celebrates you and your colleagues’ contributions.
- Health and well-being benefits include medical, dental, vision, paid parental leave, mental health/substance use, fitness, and disease management programs.
- Financial benefits include a 401(k) savings plan with company matching contributions and a 100% company-paid pension benefit that grows steadily throughout your career.
- Companywide bonus and attractive short- and long-term compensation programs are available based on your role and responsibilities.
- Professional development programs help you grow and achieve your career goals.
We prohibit discrimination on the basis of race, color, gender, age, religion, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, disability, veteran status or any other legally protected status.
We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodation to participate in the job application or interview process, to perform essential job functions, and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment. To request an accommodation, please contact us at
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