Cloud Platform Engineer: Kubernetes, Terraform & CI/CD

Specialist Staffing Group

New York (NY)

On-site

USD 103,000 - 148,000

Full time

7 days ago

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Job summary

Specialist Staffing Group in New York, NY, is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to design, deploy and optimize Kubernetes-based cloud infrastructure. This contract role emphasizes containerized workloads, IaC with Terraform and robust CI/CD pipelines.

You will collaborate with development teams, ensure platform reliability and contribute to architectural decisions while staying abreast of new tools and technologies to improve efficiency and developer experience.

Qualifications

10–15 years of experience in infrastructure engineering, cloud platforms or DevOps.
Hands-on Kubernetes and container orchestration in production environments.
Strong proficiency with Terraform or equivalent infrastructure-as-code tools.
Solid understanding of CI/CD principles and pipelines.
Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP.
Bachelor's degree in CS, SE, or equivalent.
Authorization to work in the United States.

Responsibilities

Designing, deploying and managing Kubernetes clusters and containerized workloads.
Writing and maintaining infrastructure-as-code using Terraform for reproducible deployments.
Building and optimizing CI/CD pipelines to enable rapid, reliable software delivery.
Implementing monitoring, logging and alerting solutions to maintain system reliability and observability.
Collaborating with development teams to support cloud infrastructure needs and troubleshoot platform issues.
Documenting infrastructure architecture, runbooks and best practices to support team knowledge sharing.
Evaluating and integrating new tools and technologies to improve platform efficiency and developer experience.