Platform Engineer - Corporate IT (Kansas City)
Burns & McDonnell • Kansas City, MO • Posted June 16, 2026
About the Role
**Description**
The Staff Platform Engineer focuses on delivering platforms and relentlessly improving developer experience. They automate processes and develop self-service capabilities around infrastructure and application delivery. They serve as an escalation point for junior engineers.
+ Uses DevOps practices and thinking to guide automation efforts across infrastructure provisioning and application delivery and deployment activities.
+ Works to increase deployment frequency, decrease failure change rate, decrease the mean time to recover (MTTR), and decrease lead time.
+ Writes code to provision infrastructure and deploy applications.
+ Focuses on customer service and using empathy to improve developer experience.
+ Builds trust with teams participating in conversations about new practices. Relentlessly works to eliminate pain points and remove process bottlenecks.
+ Takes work break downs from other team members a...
The Staff Platform Engineer focuses on delivering platforms and relentlessly improving developer experience. They automate processes and develop self-service capabilities around infrastructure and application delivery. They serve as an escalation point for junior engineers.
+ Uses DevOps practices and thinking to guide automation efforts across infrastructure provisioning and application delivery and deployment activities.
+ Works to increase deployment frequency, decrease failure change rate, decrease the mean time to recover (MTTR), and decrease lead time.
+ Writes code to provision infrastructure and deploy applications.
+ Focuses on customer service and using empathy to improve developer experience.
+ Builds trust with teams participating in conversations about new practices. Relentlessly works to eliminate pain points and remove process bottlenecks.
+ Takes work break downs from other team members a...