Cloud Platform Engineer: GCP/Alibaba, CI/CD & SRE

Valiant Technologies LLC; Burlington (MA); On-site; USD 120,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Valiant Technologies LLC in Burlington is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable cloud platforms and developer tooling. You will collaborate with software, DevOps, security, and architecture teams to automate deployments, enforce best practices, and empower engineering velocity.

The role focuses on IaC, CI/CD, Kubernetes, cloud security, FinOps, and self-service tooling to accelerate delivery with reliability and scalability.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of Platform Engineering, DevOps or SRE experience.
• Strong IaC experience with Terraform, Pulumi or CloudFormation/ROS.
• Hands-on Kubernetes (GKE/ACK) and Docker experience.
• CI/CD pipelines using GitLab CI, GitHub Actions, Jenkins or ArgoCD.
• Scripting in Python, Bash, Go or Shell.
• Knowledge of cloud networking (VPC, DNS, load balancers) and security.
• Problem-solving skills for distributed systems and cloud infra.
• Nice-to-have: GCP or Alibaba Cloud certs; Istio/Linkerd and GitOps tooling.
• Familiarity with FinOps and multi-cloud strategies.
• Observability stacks like Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog or cloud ops.

Responsibilities

• Design, provision, and maintain enterprise cloud infra on GCP or Alibaba Cloud using IaC.
• Develop and maintain robust CI/CD automation pipelines for deployments and tests.
• Architect and manage containerized environments with Kubernetes and Docker.
• Implement platform observability, monitoring, logging, and alerting.
• Drive cloud security, IAM, compliance, and governance best practices.
• Build automated self-service developer tools and platform APIs.
• Perform FinOps, capacity planning and architecture refinement.
• Collaborate with development teams to troubleshoot infra, network, and deployments.
• Establish SRE readiness, incident response, and runbooks; maintain docs.

Skills

Platform engineering

DevOps practices

SRE practices

CI/CD concepts

Scripting (Python Bash Go)

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

CloudFormation/ROS

Kubernetes (GKE/ACK)

Docker

GitLab CI

GitHub Actions

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Prometheus/Grafana

Job description

Valiant Technologies LLC in Burlington is seeking a Platform Engineer to design, build, and maintain scalable cloud platforms and developer tooling. You will collaborate with software, DevOps, security, and architecture teams to automate deployments, enforce best practices, and empower engineering velocity.

The role focuses on IaC, CI/CD, Kubernetes, cloud security, FinOps, and self-service tooling to accelerate delivery with reliability and scalability.