Platform Engineer: Build Scalable AWS Infra & DevEx

Perk; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 135,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Stock options

Relocation assistance

Hybrid work model

Job summary

Perk is seeking a DevOps Engineer to design, build and scale cloud infrastructure in AWS, focusing on reliability, security and developer experience. You’ll enable teams to own their services, collaborate with SRE and security, and participate in on‑call runs in a fast‑moving platform environment.

This role requires 3+ years of AWS, IaC (Terraform, Pulumi), CI/CD (GitHub Actions, CircleCI), monitoring (Datadog, CloudWatch), and containerization (Docker, ECS).

Qualifications

• 3+ years of hands-on experience managing systems in AWS (EC2, S3, RDS, IAM, VPC, etc.).
• Strong knowledge of Infrastructure as Code (Terraform, Pulumi, etc.).
• Solid understanding of CI/CD practices and tools (GitHub Actions, CircleCI, etc.).
• Experience with monitoring and observability tools (Datadog, CloudWatch, etc.).
• Experience with containerisation and container orchestration (Docker, ECS, etc.).
• Proficiency in at least one programming/scripting language (Python, Go, or Bash).
• Strong problem-solving and troubleshooting skills in distributed systems.
• Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.

Responsibilities

• Design, build and maintain scalable, and reliable cloud infrastructure in AWS
• Enable development teams to be owners of their systems and to deliver high impact products to our users
• Partner with SRE and security teams to help developers build resilient and secure applications
• Participate in our on‑call and incident management process as part of a “you build it, you run it” mentality

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Pulumi

CI/CD

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

Datadog

CloudWatch

Docker

ECS

Python

Go

Bash

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

GitHub Actions

CircleCI

Datadog

CloudWatch

Docker

ECS

Job description

Perk is seeking a DevOps Engineer to design, build and scale cloud infrastructure in AWS, focusing on reliability, security and developer experience. You’ll enable teams to own their services, collaborate with SRE and security, and participate in on‑call runs in a fast‑moving platform environment.

This role requires 3+ years of AWS, IaC (Terraform, Pulumi), CI/CD (GitHub Actions, CircleCI), monitoring (Datadog, CloudWatch), and containerization (Docker, ECS).