Platform Engineer – Scalable Cloud Data Platform

Devopsroles; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 88,000 - 145,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Professional accreditations

Flexible arrangements

Birthday day off

Mentoring and career progression

Job summary

Alter Domus is seeking a Platform Engineer to own the physical infrastructure and delivery layer for a new commercial data platform serving institutional clients. You will design end-to-end compute, storage, API delivery, security, and multi-tenancy.

You will collaborate with the Data Engineer, Data Architect, and Quantitative Director to ensure reliable, scalable services, delivering real-time APIs and secure data sharing for a global client base.

Qualifications

• 6+ years in platform infrastructure or DevOps/SRE roles.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and IaC tools (Terraform/CloudFormation).
• Strong API engineering experience for external consumption (REST, gateways, OAuth2/JWT).
• Experience designing multi-tenant architectures with strict data isolation.
• Proficiency in at least one scripting language (Python, Go).
• Hands-on with observability stacks (Datadog/Prometheus/Grafana/CloudWatch).
• Knowledge of data platforms (Snowflake, Databricks) from infra perspective.

Responsibilities

• Design and maintain end-to-end platform infrastructure (compute, storage, networking, orchestration).
• Build and operate data delivery APIs for external clients with versioning and SLA monitoring.
• Implement RBAC/ABAC and encryption at rest/in transit; manage secrets and key management.
• Architect multi-tenant isolation with per-client access control and audit logging.
• Develop observability, alerts, and incident response; define SLAs for uptime and latency.
• Scale platform to 2,000+ users; enable auto-provisioning and cost optimization.
• Ensure SOC 2 compliance and collaborate with Legal on data-use provisions.

Skills

Platform engineering

Cloud platforms

API engineering

Multi-tenancy

RBAC/ABAC

Security best practices

Observability stacks

Terraform

Go/Python scripting

Tools

Datadog

Prometheus/Grafana

CloudWatch

Job description

Alter Domus is seeking a Platform Engineer to own the physical infrastructure and delivery layer for a new commercial data platform serving institutional clients. You will design end-to-end compute, storage, API delivery, security, and multi-tenancy.

You will collaborate with the Data Engineer, Data Architect, and Quantitative Director to ensure reliable, scalable services, delivering real-time APIs and secure data sharing for a global client base.