Senior Platform Engineer

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in Alabama, +28 more states.

📋 Description

• Provision and oversee cloud infrastructure encompassing compute, networking, storage, and managed databases.

• Ensure uniformity across development, staging, and production environments.

• Strategize and carry out workload migrations among cloud providers with minimal disruption.

• Identify and implement opportunities for infrastructure cost optimization.

• Construct and maintain CI/CD pipelines within a multi-repository setting.

• Execute deployment strategies such as blue/green, canary, and rolling deployments.

• Develop automation tools and scripts to minimize manual effort and enhance delivery speed.

• Author and sustain Terraform infrastructure across multi-account, multi-environment systems.

• Establish Infrastructure as Code (IaC) standards, module reuse patterns, and state management practices.

• Propel infrastructure modifications through version-controlled, peer-reviewed workflows.

• Engage in on-call rotation and spearhead incident response initiatives.

• Maintain observability via dashboards, alerting, logging, and SLO tracking.

• Conduct post-incident reviews and execute long-term remediation strategies.

• Manage secrets, certificates, and access controls while adhering to least-privilege principles.

• Implement security best practices across infrastructure, containers, and CI/CD pipelines.

• Support audit and compliance efforts through documentation and access reviews.

• Collaborate with engineering teams on infrastructure guidance and service design.

• Create architectural documentation, runbooks, and operational guides.

• Assist in developing self-service platform capabilities for engineering teams.

⛳️ Requirements

• Over 5 years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, or Site Reliability Engineering.

• Proficient in AWS with services such as EC2, EKS/ECS, VPC, Route 53, IAM, S3, EBS, and CloudWatch.

• Extensive experience with Terraform in multi-environment configurations.

• Familiarity with Kubernetes, ECS, Docker, ArgoCD, and Helm in production settings.

• Proven experience in designing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines using GitHub Actions or similar tools.

• Strong background in observability and monitoring tools (Datadog, Prometheus/Grafana, New Relic, etc.).

• Solid understanding of networking fundamentals including DNS, TLS, VPNs, load balancing, and VPC design.

• Previous experience as a network engineer is preferred.

• Knowledge of PostgreSQL and MySQL compatible database administration is preferred.

• Experience with Google Cloud or Azure is preferred.

• Kubernetes, AWS, or Terraform certification is preferred.

🏝️ Benefits

• Health insurance, dental, vision for your family, 401K, paid time off, sick leave, parental leave, and additional benefits.