Lead Platform Engineer, AI, DevSecOps

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Oregon.

📋 Description

• Take ownership of and enhance the roadmap for DevSecOps, platform engineering, and AI operations.

• Design, develop, and manage secure, scalable, and fault-tolerant AWS infrastructure tailored for SaaS and AI workloads.

• Automate processes related to deployment, provisioning, compliance, monitoring, and support.

• Track platform KPIs and cost factors, which include cloud expenditures, token utilization, model performance, latency, error rates, deployment frequency, change failure rate, recovery time, and operational overhead.

• Spearhead the operational maturity of the agentic AI platform, encompassing AWS Bedrock, AgentCore, AgentCore Gateway, governance, policy controls, observability, evaluations, and cost oversight.

• Establish observability throughout infrastructure, applications, and agentic workflows.

• Collaborate with Engineering, Product, Security, Compliance, and Customer-facing teams to address regulated-industry needs.

• Define and advance CI/CD, infrastructure-as-code, and release management methodologies.

• Direct incident response, conduct post-incident assessments, perform root-cause analysis, fine-tune alerts, create runbooks, and prepare for readiness reviews and remediation efforts.

• Enhance and maintain cloud security measures, including secrets management, authentication, authorization, vulnerability scanning, and software supply chain governance.

• Develop shared engineering standards and streamlined processes.

• Foster a DevOps-centric culture by minimizing silos and clarifying operational roles.

• Mentor DevOps, platform, and software engineers while nurturing the next generation of technical leaders.

• Potential opportunity for managing a small team.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 10 years of experience in DevOps, DevSecOps, SRE, platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, or a related engineering discipline.

• Demonstrated success in designing and operating production AWS infrastructure for SaaS or enterprise software environments.

• Proven experience in leading technical strategy, mentoring engineers, influencing cross-functional teams, and enhancing engineering culture.

• Strong practical experience with infrastructure as code, CI/CD, containerization, configuration management, scripting, and operational automation.

• Proficient with AWS services such as EC2, ECS, IAM, RDS, S3, Lambda, CloudWatch, OpenSearch, and associated networking and security services.

• Solid understanding of secure SDLC, application security, privacy, compliance, auditability, and risk management in regulated environments.

• Experience with observability platforms and practices, including metrics, logs, traces, SLOs, alerting, dashboards, and incident response.

• Familiarity with AI infrastructure, LLMOps, AgentOps, or MLOps concepts.

• Strong knowledge of secrets management, certificates, authentication, authorization, encryption, and cloud security measures.

• Experience with vulnerability management and security tools such as SCA, SAST, DAST, IAST, RASP, penetration testing, and security monitoring.

• Exceptional communication, collaboration, leadership, analytical, and troubleshooting abilities.

• This role can be based in Portland, Oregon, or remotely from anywhere in the U.S.

• Authorization to work in the U.S. must be verified through E-Verify.

🏝️ Benefits

• Medical and dental insurance.

• 401(k) plan.

• Life and disability insurance.

• Generous flexible time-off policy.

• Paid holidays.

• 12 weeks of paid parental leave.

• Flexible spending accounts for medical, dependent care, and commuting expenses.

• Community outreach initiatives that encourage employees to give back.

• Commitment to anti-racism efforts and an equity & inclusion action plan.

• Hybrid work model.

• On-site facilities including bike racks, showers, lockers, and gym amenities.

• Casual work atmosphere located in central Portland.