Platform Engineer

First Orion; Arkansas; On-site; USD 95,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health and dental options

Flexible work arrangements

On-site fitness center

Job summary

First Orion is seeking a Platform/DevOps Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable cloud infrastructure. You will automate pipelines, improve observability, and support production services across teams in a fast-paced environment.

The role emphasizes IaC, container platforms, security, and incident response, with collaboration across engineering, QA, security, and product teams. Strong AWS and automation skills required.

Qualifications

• Hands-on experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting AWS-based environments.
• Proficient with infrastructure-as-code (Terraform, YAML) and automation tooling (Ansible, scripting).
• Experience building and maintaining CI/CD pipelines (CodePipeline, Bitbucket Pipelines or similar).
• Practical experience with containers, Docker, ECS, Kubernetes, and microservice architectures.
• Strong Linux systems administration, patching, backups, and security maintenance.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure with reusable IaC patterns.
• Develop and improve CI/CD pipelines across dev, test, and prod environments.
• Provision and operate secure, high-performance environments for apps and services.
• Implement monitoring, dashboards, alerts, and telemetry for better visibility.
• Participate in on-call rotation and incident response; drive automation to reduce toil.
• Create and maintain runbooks, docs, and operational guides to standardize support.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

CI/CD

Containerization

Linux

Scripting (Python/Go/Bash)

Git workflows

Monitoring/Observability

On-call support

SQL/Databases

Tools

AWS CodePipeline

Bitbucket Pipelines

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS ECS

Ansible

YAML

Job description

What you’ll be doing:

First Orion is seeking a talented Platform / DevOps Engineer to join a leading call protection and branded calling company. The Platform / DevOps Engineer builds and operates secure, scalable, resilient cloud platforms that enable product and engineering teams to deliver software safely and efficiently. This role combines software engineering and systems engineering practices to automate infrastructure, improve delivery pipelines, strengthen observability, support production services, and reduce recurring operational work. The engineer works across development, quality, operations, security, and product teams to improve reliability and accelerate delivery. What you’ll be doing: Design, build, and maintain cloud infrastructure using reusable infrastructure-as-code patterns. Develop and improve continuous integration, delivery, and deployment pipelines across development, test, and production environments. Provision and operate secure, high-performance, fault-tolerant environments for applications, products, and shared services. Implement monitoring, dashboards, alerting, and operational telemetry that improve service visibility and response effectiveness. Participate in on-call support, troubleshoot complex production issues, contribute to incident response, and drive corrective automation. Create and maintain runbooks, work instructions, operational guides, and other documentation that standardizes support and improves operational excellence. Automate routine operational tasks, reduce manual toil, and continuously improve platform reliability, performance, and maintainability. Administer and improve Linux-based systems, container platforms, and supporting cloud services. Manage patches, upgrades, backups, security controls, and vulnerability remediation according to company and compliance standards. Partner with software engineering, QA, operations, security, product, and performance teams to design, test, release, and support solutions. Identify opportunities to modernize legacy technologies and migrate workloads to more efficient, automated, and supportable platforms. Use source control and peer-reviewed engineering practices to deliver reliable infrastructure and automation changes.

What you’ll need:

Experience in platform engineering, site reliability engineering, DevOps, cloud operations, or a closely related role. Hands-on experience designing, operating, and troubleshooting AWS-based environments, including multi-account or multi-tenant architectures. Experience defining infrastructure with Terraform or a comparable infrastructure-as-code tool; familiarity with configuration formats and automation tooling such as YAML or Ansible. Experience implementing and maintaining CI/CD pipelines with tools such as AWS CodePipeline, Bitbucket Pipelines or comparable platforms. Practical experience with containers, Docker, AWS ECS, Kubernetes and microservice architectures. Linux systems administration experience, including installation, patching, upgrades, backup practices, and security maintenance. Ability to automate with at least one scripting or programming language such as Python, Go, or Bash. Experience with Git-based version control and collaborative code-review workflows. Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills across applications, infrastructure, networks, and distributed services. Working knowledge of relational databases and SQL, including querying data and understanding schemas. Clear written and verbal communication skills, a collaborative working style, and the ability to operate effectively in an Agile, multidisciplinary environment. Ability to participate in an on-call rotation and support production services.

Bonus Points:

Experience in telephony, communications, call-protection, or data-provider environments. Experience with core AWS compute, networking and database services, Databricks or another lakehouse or big-data platform. Experience with REST APIs, gRPC services, DynamoDB or other NoSQL databases. Experience designing or operating high-performance, low-latency, fault-tolerant systems.

Company Benefits:

Balancing the work-life flow is key to health and happiness! That is why we offer one of the most competitive packages in our industry with open PTO, company paid holidays, Flex Fridays and flexible work arrangements. We strongly value the health and wellness of our teammates and through our state-of-the-art fitness center we’re helping our teammates reach their wellness goals while at work. Add on generous health and dental/vision options, retirement plans, learning and development programs, career path frameworks, tuition reimbursement, company options and bonus potential you have many ways to take advantage of a comprehensive benefits package that means the most to you!

Learn More About First Orion:

First Orion helps businesses generate more revenue, increase efficiency, and improve the customer experience by empowering them to brand their phone calls with their name, logo and reason for calling. We are the market leader in branded communications technology, and a trusted partner to Fortune 500 companies and the largest U.S. mobile carriers. First Orion has been voted a Great Place to Work with top rankings in every category. Learn more about what our employees have to say on our First Orion Glassdoor page and watch our People First Diversity Statement/Video. First Orion Culture Cornerstones are at the core of everything we do here. Disclosure: First Orion is an Affirmative Action and Equal Opportunity Employer. This job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Activities, duties, and responsibilities may change at any time with or without notice, based on the changing needs of our business. This position is not eligible for employment-based immigration visa/status sponsorship. Employees are required to demonstrate proper work authorization as required by I-9 compliance. First Orion is interested in every qualified candidate who is eligible to work in the United States. First Orion’s immigration sponsorship policy is applied in a nondiscriminatory fashion regardless of race, gender, ethnic origin, or any other classification protected by law. First Orion is a global powerhouse in telecommunications technology. With a team of 300+ innovators, we aren’t just a tech provider; we are the architects of Branded Communication and the frontline of scam protection for Fortune 500 giants and the nation’s largest mobile carriers. The mobile experience is broken. 85% of people won’t answer a call from an unknown number. Thanks to scammers and bad actors, the "Unknown Caller" or faceless "800" number has become a symbol of anxiety, causing legitimate connections to be lost in the noise. First Orion provides multiple, cutting-edge ways to bridge the gap between businesses and consumers: Identity Over Anonymity: Through solutions like INFORM® Branded Calling, we replace mystery numbers with verified brand identities, giving people a reason to pick up with confidence. Bulletproof Security: Our real-time fraud detection and scam protection provide transparency at a global scale. Actionable Intelligence: We use advanced analytics to help companies optimize their reach and protect their reputation. We know that world-changing technology starts with a world-class culture. As a 2026 Amazing Workplace for two consecutive years and a certified Great Place to Work for more than 8 years, our foundation is simple: “People First.” We believe our team members are our greatest asset, which is why we’ve built a workplace rooted in the same trust and transparency we provide to our customers. For more information, visit firstorion.com. Follow us on socials: LinkedIn | Facebook | X | Instagram | Reddit