Digital Platforms Engineer

SALARY: $75,940.80 - $89,356.80

LOCATION: 33 N. High St. Columbus, OH 43215

BENEFITS:

• Medical, Vision, Dental, Supplemental and Life Insurance
• Paid Parental Leave
• Employee Discounts
• COTA Bus Pass
• Wellness Initiatives
• On-Site Chair Massage
• On-Site Health Coach
• Tuition Reimbursement
• Student Loan Repayment Program
• Public Pension through OPERS & Ohio Deferred Compensation

POSITION SUMMARY:

COTA's Digital Platforms Engineer designs, supports, and continuously improves enterprise digital platforms that enable public web services, internal collaboration, secure content delivery, and API-enabled integrations. This role provides business-facing technical leadership across cota.com, WordPress, SharePoint, Microsoft Teams, Microsoft 365, cloud-hosted applications, and integration services. The position ensures these platforms are reliable, secure, accessible, scalable, and aligned with enterprise architecture, governance, cybersecurity, and operational standards.

Performs duties that advance COTA's Strategic Plan and reflect the organization's core values of safety, empowerment, accountability, teamwork, and service, and support the mission of Moving Every Life Forward.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

• Manage cota.com website and related web platforms to ensure secure, reliable, and continuous operations.
• Develop and maintain headless WordPress solutions using Gatsby, ReactJS, Node.js, RESTful APIs, and GraphQL.
• Apply secure development and WordPress hardening practices to reduce platform vulnerabilities.
• Maintain reliable web application infrastructure, including the WordPress-based cota.com platform.
• Optimize accessibility and discoverability through meta tags, canonical tags, robot directives, and XML maps.
• Proactively ensure platform security, scalability, and reliability by performing industry's best practices.
• Design and maintain AWS infrastructure using EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, KMS, VPC, and Route 53.
• Enforce AWS security, networking, and compliance standards across cloud environments.
• Optimize cloud application performance, security, cost efficiency, and reliability using CloudWatch.
• Manage, secure, and troubleshoot Linux systems, including Amazon Linux, Ubuntu, and CentOS.
• Engineer and automate Agile continuous integration and continuous delivery (CI/CD) pipelines using Git.
• Govern SharePoint permissions, configurations, integrations, security, compliance, and enterprise standards.
• Organize SharePoint site collections, metadata, Teams channels, and repositories for enterprise collaboration.
• Engineer SharePoint solutions using Power Apps, Power Automate, HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
• Implement scalable, cloud-native solutions that deliver highly available, high-performing, and resilient products.
• Conduct access reviews, audits, updates, and documentation to support secure collaboration.
• Evaluate emerging digital tools that improve efficiency, innovation, and enterprise value.
• Administrate and support WordPress, SharePoint, and Power Apps platforms.
• Document web systems, integrations, plugins, and platform dependencies for continuity.
• Regular, predictable and punctual attendance required; and
• Performs other duties as assigned.

MINIMUM EDUCATION & EXPERIENCE REQUIRED:

• Requires a Bachelor's degree in computer science or related field and a minimum of five (5) years' professional experience as a Software Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Systems Administrator. An equivalent combination of education and relevant experience will also be considered.

LICENSE AND CERTIFCATIONS:

• AWS Certified Developer Associate or equivalent certification preferred.
• WordPress Development Certification or equivalent experience preferred.

COTA is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. All employment decisions are based on job needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, sex, sexual orientation, age, genetic information, gender identity, national origin, veteran or disability status.