DevOps / Platform Engineer

Softadom; United States; Remote; USD 110,000 - 170,000; Full time

Job summary

Softadom is seeking a platform engineer to standardize operational baselines across client environments, focusing on practical guardrails for security, reliability, and deployment hygiene. You will collaborate with engineers to optimize build, rollout, and rollback practices and create small internal tools that reduce routine toil.

Responsibilities include documenting procedures, maintaining incident visibility, and guiding teams through changes with clear communication.

Qualifications

• Production experience operating multiple environments.
• Ability to write small utilities and scripts to automate recurring operational work.
• Disciplined, incremental improvements over large rewrites.
• Strong documentation habits and ability to teach peers.
• Clear, calm communication during incidents and change windows.

Responsibilities

• Establish sensible defaults for secrets management, backups, TLS, log retention, and deployment hygiene across environments.
• Partner with application engineers to shorten build times, harden rollouts, and make rollbacks routine.
• Build small internal tools that remove friction from everyday developer and operations tasks.
• Document procedures so other team members can operate the systems confidently.
• Communicate clearly during incidents, including what changed, what broke, and what is being done.

Skills

SRE practices

Automation scripting

Incident response

Documentation

Cross-team collaboration

Job description

Role overview

A platform engineering role focused on standardizing operational baselines across multiple client environments without overreaching. The work centers on practical guardrails for security, reliability, and deployment hygiene, paired with collaborative improvement of build, rollout, and rollback practices.

Responsibilities

• Establish sensible defaults for secrets management, backups, TLS, log retention, and deployment hygiene across environments.
• Partner with application engineers to shorten build times, harden rollouts, and make rollbacks routine rather than dramatic.
• Build small internal tools that remove friction from everyday developer and operations tasks.
• Document procedures so other team members can operate the systems confidently.
• Communicate clearly during incidents, including what changed, what broke, and what is being done.

Requirements

• Production experience operating multiple environments, ideally across distinct projects or client setups.
• Comfort writing small utilities and scripts to automate recurring operational work.
• Discipline to make measured, incremental improvements rather than large sweeping rewrites.
• Strong documentation habits and willingness to teach peers how to run what was built.
• Clear, calm communication during incidents and change windows.

Nice to have

• Exposure to a variety of stacks and infrastructure providers, with the pragmatism to choose the simplest workable option.