Platform Engineer

About

The Platform Infrastructure team at our client plays a critical role in keeping the production and development environments running smoothly and securely. This role will utilize advanced cloud capabilities to facilitate the Platform Infrastructure strategy of market agility and lean operating principles with a strict focus on quality to meet the ever‑growing demands of their clients. As a Platform Engineer, you will be wearing multiple hats in a highly visible role, interacting with all aspects of the business.

Responsibilities

• Design, maintain, and troubleshoot distributed systems with strong hands‑on debugging skills.
• Manage the relationship between the Platform Infrastructure team and the Information Security Team to address and resolve security issues related to the platform, CI/CD pipelines, and development tools.
• Contribute to security best practices by promoting a shift‑left approach and fostering a strong security culture within the DevOps/Platform Infrastructure team.
• Develop and maintain tools to support the development environment on macOS and Linux, focusing on enhancing developer productivity.
• Maintain site reliability with a focus on building highly scalable systems integrating resiliency and high availability at all levels.
• Develop software and tooling to secure and automate cloud infrastructure, building software delivery capabilities with fully automatic workflows.
• Design and operate a Kubernetes environment for container management and orchestration.
• Work with distributed systems design, maintenance, and hands‑on troubleshooting/debugging.

Requirements

• 8+ years of DevOps or SRE experience with at least 4 years of AWS experience.
• 8+ years of CI/CD pipeline development in GitLab, GitHub, or similar framework.
• 5+ years of experience with security best practices in AWS, including remediating SecurityHub findings.
• 5+ years of experience with DevSecOps tools, including SAST tools, DAST tools, and SCA tools.
• Microservices (Docker, Kubernetes) experience in a production environment strongly desired.
• Strong Linux OS‑level and command‑line/scripting knowledge and configuration management principles.
• Working knowledge of databases such as MongoDB, Postgres, and DynamoDB.
• Coding beyond simple scripting with strong opinions on maintainable/reusable code in Python, Ruby, or Java desired.
• Experience with compute provisioning on a cloud‑based platform using Terraform and/or CloudFormation.
• Exceptional analytical skills, able to apply knowledge and experience in decision‑making to arrive at creative and commercial solutions.
• Experience building a microservice‑based architecture.
• Good written and spoken communication skills.
• Ability to design and implement complex but easily managed automated infrastructure.
• Enthusiastic about sharing knowledge, teaching, and learning collaboratively within a team environment.
• Experience in system tuning and performance testing.

Nice to have

• AWS certification.