Staff Platform Engineer

About the role

Roark is currently building out its data and analytics team, with the goal of better leveraging advanced analytic solutions to make sound investment decisions and guide owned businesses to profitable growth. To ensure robust data and delivery of analytics solutions, we are seeking a Staff Platform Engineer familiar with the full development lifecycle and experience working collaboratively with technical teams. The Software Engineer will be responsible for implementing software engineering solutions, developing robust data pipelines, and building production ready analytics tools delivered through modern UIs. The role will require collaboration with Roark's less technical teams to understand data and extensive collaboration across the Data and Analytics team in the buildout of analytics and AI products. An ideal candidate will have full stack experience building and delivering successful analytics products.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain scalable cloud infrastructure on Google Cloud Platform, including compute, networking, storage, and managed services, to support the full data and analytics product portfolio
• Architect and own end-to-end CI/CD pipelines that enable reliable, repeatable deployments across development, staging, and production environments
• Establish and enforce DevOps best practices including infrastructure-as-code, automated testing, environment parity, deployment strategies, and rollback capabilities
• Define and implement the security posture for cloud environments, including identity and access management (IAM), secrets management, network security, and compliance controls
• Partner with software engineers and data engineers to embed platform and security standards into the development lifecycle without impeding team velocity
• Lead incident response, root cause analysis, and remediation for platform-level outages and performance degradation; build toward proactive observability and alerting
• Evaluate and introduce emerging platform technologies, DevOps tooling, and security frameworks that improve reliability, efficiency, or risk posture
• Develop and document platform standards, runbooks, and onboarding guides to promote consistency and self-sufficiency across engineering teams
• Partner with IT Cybersecurity to align data and analytics platform controls with firm-wide security policies, vulnerability management programs, and audit requirements
• Partner with IT Cloud Engineering to coordinate shared infrastructure standards, optimize cross-team resource utilization, and ensure consistent governance across Roark's cloud environment
• Remain a hands-on individual contributor, directly authoring infrastructure code and software applications, building and maintaining pipelines, and solving complex platform problems alongside the engineering team

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in computer science, engineering, information systems, or related field
• 10+ years of relevant experience in platform engineering, DevOps, infrastructure engineering, or a closely related discipline
• Demonstrated experience designing and managing cloud infrastructure at scale, with strong hands-on proficiency in Google Cloud Platform (GCP) or comparable hyperscaler (AWS, Azure)
• Deep experience building and maintaining CI/CD systems using tools such as Cloud Build, GitHub Actions, CircleCI, Jenkins, or equivalent
• Proficiency with infrastructure-as-code tools, particularly Terraform, and experience managing environments through code-driven workflows
• Working knowledge of container orchestration using Kubernetes or Cloud Run, including deployment patterns, scaling, and operational management
• Experience implementing cloud security controls including IAM policies, VPC configuration, secrets

Benefits

Additional Information

Roark is an Atlanta-based private equity firm with over $41 billion in assets under management. Roark focuses on investments in consumer and business service companies, with a specialization in franchise and franchise-like business models. Roark prides itself on being a trusted partner for management and business owners. We believe that successful partnerships begin with providing a compelling value proposition to all business constituencies. A win‐win‐win approach leads to a positive business environment where all stakeholders - customers, employees, franchisees, strategic partners, service providers, management and shareholders - share in the growth and success of our businesses. We want to partner with entrepreneurs and executives who share this vision. Roark brands generate approximately $97 billion in annual system revenues from 112,000+ locations located in 50 states and 121 countries. Our portfolio companies span multiple industries including food, restaurants, consumer and business services, health, wellness and fitness, and education and youth activities. We are best known for our portfolio companies such as, Dunkin', Jimmy John's, Jamba, Orangetheory, Mathnasium, Drybar just to name a few.

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