Platform Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Analyze both technical and business requirements to design, implement, and support cloud infrastructure solutions.

• Deploy, maintain, monitor, troubleshoot, and optimize cloud infrastructure and services effectively.

• Investigate, diagnose, and resolve incidents related to infrastructure and applications, recurring issues, and performance problems, including conducting root cause analysis and implementing corrective actions.

• Develop and sustain Infrastructure as Code, automation solutions, reusable modules, and scripts utilizing Terraform, Python, shell scripting, YAML, and JSON.

• Implement and provide support for DevOps tools, source control practices, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Carry out infrastructure lifecycle management tasks, which include upgrades, migrations, deployments, patching, backup and recovery, and environment maintenance.

• Apply security measures, configuration standards, change management protocols, and operational standards.

• Collaborate effectively with application development, infrastructure, security, and support teams, as well as vendors and stakeholders.

• Create and maintain comprehensive technical documentation, standards, diagrams, procedures, and work instructions.

• Evaluate emerging technologies in cloud, automation, DevOps, and observability, providing recommendations for improvements.

• Participate in on-call support and address infrastructure-related incidents and service disruptions.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in computer science, Information Technology, Engineering, or a related technical field, or an equivalent combination of education and relevant professional experience.

• Over 7 years of hands-on experience in infrastructure, systems administration, cloud engineering, or related technical roles supporting production environments, preferably within AWS.

• More than 3 years of experience in platform and DevOps roles.

• Proficient in implementing and supporting monitoring, logging, and observability solutions, such as Datadog or similar platforms.

• Strong working knowledge of Linux, including system configuration, troubleshooting, patching, and performance analysis.

• Practical experience with Infrastructure as Code (IaC) and infrastructure automation utilizing Terraform.

• Familiarity with containerization and container orchestration technologies, such as Docker, Kubernetes, Amazon EKS, and Rancher.

• Experience in implementing and supporting CI/CD pipelines and DevOps tools, including GitLab and Artifactory or equivalent technologies.

• Solid understanding of Git and source-control practices, including branching, versioning, and peer-review workflows.

• Experience with cloud infrastructure monitoring, incident troubleshooting, root cause analysis, and operational support within production environments.

• Knowledge of cloud and infrastructure security concepts, including identity and access management, network security, secrets management, vulnerability remediation, and least-privilege principles.

• Familiarity with automated testing or infrastructure validation/testing frameworks is a plus.

• Experience in a SaaS-based product development environment is preferred.

• Relevant AWS, cloud, security, Kubernetes, or Infrastructure as Code certifications are advantageous.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary and performance bonuses.

• Comprehensive health, dental, and vision insurance plans.

• Opportunities for professional development and continuous learning.

• Flexible work arrangements and a supportive work environment.

• Generous paid time off and holiday policies.