Senior Platform Engineer

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

📋 Description

• Design, manage, and troubleshoot enterprise UNIX/Linux environments from server setup to production readiness and lifecycle management.

• Oversee Linux vulnerability remediation, security hardening, compliance checks, and audit preparedness on an enterprise scale.

• Strategize and execute operating system patching, upgrades, hardening, and maintenance of the fleet.

• Automate platform operations utilizing Ansible, Python, Shell, APIs, and infrastructure as code methodologies.

• Maintain workflows based on Git and CI/CD pipelines.

• Manage Linux workloads across AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud, including image and platform lifecycle tasks.

• Enhance availability through monitoring, diagnostics, auto-remediation, and self-healing processes.

• Address complex issues related to operating systems, networks, storage, authentication, and performance.

• Conduct root-cause analysis and implement preventive measures.

• Oversee secure access controls, including SSH, sudo, PAM, certificates, and privileged access management.

• Assist with incident, problem, and change management, production operations, and on-call responses.

• Maintain platform standards, runbooks, procedures, and technical documentation.

• Collaborate across teams to enhance platform stability and usability.

• Work alongside security, infrastructure, and application teams to ensure services remain scalable and production-ready.

⛳️ Requirements

• 7+ years of practical experience in Platform Engineering, particularly within enterprise Linux operations.

• Advanced Linux administration skills across RHEL 8/9, Ubuntu 22.04/24.04, and Amazon Linux 2/2023.

• Proficiency in Linux security and kernel patching, canary rollouts, rollback procedures, user and sudo management, SSH/sshd configuration, service permissions, logging, and production troubleshooting.

• Experience in implementing and maintaining CIS benchmarks using Ansible Lockdown.

• Strong expertise in Ansible for configuration management, patching, and hardening processes.

• Experience integrating hardening techniques into golden images and onboarding third-party AMIs.

• Advanced knowledge of AWS, Azure, and Google Cloud for managing Linux workloads.

• Strong skills in Terraform and Ansible.

• Hands-on experience creating standard Linux images using Packer or AWS Image Builder.

• Experience in designing CI/CD pipelines with GitHub Actions, Azure DevOps, Jenkins, or similar tools.

• Familiarity with remediating Qualys vulnerability QIDs and CIS compliance CIDs.

• Experience integrating SonarQube, Veracode, Snyk, and StackHawk into CI/CD processes where applicable.

• Proven track record of delivering automated platform solutions.

• Experience utilizing AI-assisted engineering tools for troubleshooting, scripting, log analysis, documentation, root cause analysis, and automation development.

• AWS certifications or a working understanding of Azure and Google Cloud is preferred.

• Familiarity with immutable infrastructure, autoscaling, observability, monitoring, GitOps, or progressive delivery is advantageous.

• Experience supporting mixed Windows/Linux environments and IT operations, with knowledge of DNS, load balancing, reverse proxies, Microsoft Active Directory, and ADFS is a plus.

🏝️ Benefits

• Remote work arrangement.

• Commitment to being an Equal Opportunity Employer.

• An inclusive workplace that supports and respects all individuals.