Cloud Platform Engineer: AWS/Kubernetes & Cost Optimization

Spire; United States; Hybrid; USD 130,000 - 171,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Equity awards

Health benefits

401(k)

Vacation & PTO

Wellness reimbursement

Employee Stock Purchase Plan

Job summary

Spire is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure / Platform Engineer to join the team maintaining our internal developer platform on AWS. This hands-on role focuses on platform engineering, cloud operations, observability, and improving developer experience.

You’ll work with Infrastructure, Security, IT and software teams to reduce AWS spend, migrate workloads, and implement reliable, scalable platform services. Familiarity with EKS, GitOps, and observability tooling is essential.

Qualifications

• 2-3+ years of experience in cloud infrastructure, platform engineering, SRE, DevOps, or a similar role.
• Strong experience with AWS and Kubernetes, especially EKS.
• Familiarity with GitOps workflows and CI/CD pipelines.
• Comfortable troubleshooting distributed systems and production issues.
• Working knowledge of observability tooling and concepts such as metrics, logs, traces, and alerting.
• Ability to write code or libraries in one or more general‑purpose languages to support developer workflows.
• Good communication skills and a customer‑focused mindset.
• Comfortable collaborating frequently with a variety of infrastructure, IT, security and application teams.

Responsibilities

• Lead analysis of AWS spend across platform‑owned infrastructure and developer team workloads.
• Identify cost optimization opportunities and implement changes that balance cost with reliability and developer experience.
• Support migration of workloads onto the internal developer platform.
• Troubleshoot and resolve platform issues raised by internal customers (developers and IT/Security).
• Perform regular maintenance, upgrades, and improvements across platform services and tooling.
• Contribute to code libraries, templates, and integrations to simplify instrumentation and observability for application teams.
• Collaborate across platform observability and delivery tooling (AWS EKS, VPCs, GitHub Actions, ArgoCD, Grafana, OpenSearch, etc.).

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

Platform engineering

SRE

DevOps

AWS

Kubernetes/EKS

GitOps

CI/CD

Observability

Communication

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes (EKS)

GitOps

CI/CD pipelines

GitHub/GitHub Actions

Job description

Spire is seeking a Cloud Infrastructure / Platform Engineer to join the team maintaining our internal developer platform on AWS. This hands-on role focuses on platform engineering, cloud operations, observability, and improving developer experience.

You’ll work with Infrastructure, Security, IT and software teams to reduce AWS spend, migrate workloads, and implement reliable, scalable platform services. Familiarity with EKS, GitOps, and observability tooling is essential.