Platform Operations Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Assist in managing and scaling our container ecosystem on Amazon EKS, implement GitOps workflows utilizing ArgoCD, and oversee CI/CD pipelines via GitHub Actions to guarantee swift, consistent, and automated deployments.

• Focus on Reliability - Establish and monitor SLIs and SLOs, lead incident response efforts including on-call rotations, root cause analysis, and post-mortems, while contributing to disaster recovery strategies to maintain high system availability.

• Enhance Observability - Design and sustain our monitoring and logging framework using Datadog, Sentry, and CloudWatch to provide engineering teams with clear insights into system health and performance before issues affect users.

• Influence the Platform's Future - Collaborate on architectural choices, develop internal tools and self-service workflows that simplify platform operations, and significantly contribute to the scaling and evolution of our infrastructure.

⛳️ Requirements

• 3+ years of experience in Site Reliability Engineering (SRE), DevOps, or Cloud Infrastructure.

• Proficient in core AWS services (VPC, IAM, EKS, RDS) with a solid understanding of cloud networking and security best practices.

• Expertise in Infrastructure as Code using Terraform, CloudFormation, or Crossplane.

• Skilled in GitHub and GitHub Actions as a fundamental part of your CI/CD and automation processes, not just for version control.

• Experience operating Kubernetes clusters in production and managing application deployments via GitOps workflows (ArgoCD/Flux) and Helm Charts.

• Knowledgeable in observability tools such as Datadog, Sentry, CloudWatch, and Grafana, including the creation of alerts, dashboards, and log pipelines.

• Ability to write robust Python scripts for system integration, automation of infrastructure tasks, or managing custom workflows.

• Comfortable working autonomously in a remote environment, asking questions when necessary, and maintaining progress without micromanagement.

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.

• Preferred: Certifications in AWS, Kubernetes, Terraform, or Python.

🏝️ Benefits

• Competitive salary with equity options.

• Excellent health care plan choices (Medical, Dental & Vision), along with FSA, DCFSA, & HSA options.

• Company-sponsored disability and life insurance.

• Unlimited paid time off (PTO).

• 401(k) with 4% matching.

• Fully remote work with flexible working hours.

• $750 budget for work-from-home setup.

• Paid biannual in-person company summits.

• Quarterly $150 stipend for coworker meetups.

• Monthly $100 health and wellness benefit.

• Generous paid family leave.

• Annual $1,200 stipend for learning and development.