Cloud Platform Engineer: Kubernetes & Terraform

Plutus21; Puerto Bogotá; On-site; COP 60,000,000 - 120,000,000; Full time

Job summary

Plutus21 is seeking a Cloud Engineer to join our core platform team and take ownership of deployment, tenant isolation, and platform operations across client environments. The role packages the platform as containerized deployments per client, builds infrastructure-as-code modules, and maintains portable, secure data paths across hosted and client cloud accounts.

Collaborating with the Principal Platform Engineer and AI Engineer, you will drive upgrades, security baselines, observability, and

Qualifications

• Proven experience owning Terraform or Pulumi codebases in production.
• Hands-on Kubernetes experience across multiple environments.
• Deep cloud provider expertise, AWS preferred.
• Experience operating PostgreSQL and object storage in production.
• Strong understanding of tenant isolation, private networking, egress control, and secrets handling.
• Experience with CI/CD and versioned releases across many environments without configuration drift.
• Strong written communication skills for design notes and runbooks.
• Experience deploying software into customers\' own cloud accounts is a plus.
• Experience in regulated environments or SOC 2 readiness is a plus.
• Familiarity with GitOps and policy-as-code is a plus.
• Experience operating platforms that run AI or LLM workloads is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Package the platform as a containerized deployment unit per client.
• Build and maintain infrastructure-as-code modules using Terraform or Pulumi.
• Keep stateful components portable, including PostgreSQL, S3-compatible object storage, OIDC identity, and pluggable secrets management.
• Implement and test tenant isolation, including isolation between sub-tenants within a single client.
• Control data egress at the infrastructure level with client-authorized outbound connections.
• Operate hybrid deployments in client-hosted environments, with no transfer of client data.
• Define and support the shared-responsibility model and service level agreements for client-hosted environments.
• Manage upgrades and releases across multiple environments within a supported-version window.
• Establish baseline security and observability, including SSO, audit logging, encryption, monitoring, and alerting.
• Write clear design notes and runbooks, and document decisions before implementation begins.

Skills

Cloud architecture

Security and isolation

CI/CD automation

Documentation and runbooks

Written communication

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

Kubernetes

PostgreSQL

Object storage (S3-compatible)

OIDC / secrets management

Job description

Plutus21 is seeking a Cloud Engineer to join our core platform team and take ownership of deployment, tenant isolation, and platform operations across client environments. The role packages the platform as containerized deployments per client, builds infrastructure-as-code modules, and maintains portable, secure data paths across hosted and client cloud accounts.

Collaborating with the Principal Platform Engineer and AI Engineer, you will drive upgrades, security baselines, observability, and