Platform Engineer - Scalable Infra, CI/CD & DevEx

Jobtailor; Santa Clara (CA); On-site; USD 170,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor seeks a Senior Infrastructure/Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable, secure infrastructure across cloud, Kubernetes, on-premises, and hybrid environments.

You will drive solutions from problem definition through architecture and production, advance internal developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and automation, and improve the developer experience across the software lifecycle.

Qualifications

• 6+ years of experience in infrastructure, platform engineering, software engineering, SRE, DevOps, or related fields.
• Strong programming and software engineering fundamentals with experience developing production-quality tools and services.
• Deep production Kubernetes experience, including troubleshooting complex environments.
• Experience with AWS, Azure, or GCP and/or on-premises infrastructure; self-managed or bare-metal.
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code such as Terraform, Ansible, or similar technologies.
• Experience designing and improving CI/CD platforms and deployment automation.
• Strong understanding of Linux, networking, distributed systems, and infrastructure architecture.
• Strong experience with server provisioning, configuration management, patching, upgrades, and lifecycle management.
• Hands‑on experience with Ansible, Chef, or similar configuration management and automation technologies.
• Strong programming skills in at least one language such as Go, Python, Rust, or C++.
• Experience with observability, monitoring, logging, and reliability engineering practices.
• Ability to lead complex technical initiatives, evaluate tradeoffs, and drive scalable, maintainable solutions through production.
• Strong communication and collaboration skills across technical and cross‑functional teams.
• Candidates must be legally authorized to work in the United States at the time of hire.
• Candidates must have a minimum of 24 months of current U.S. work authorization remaining without employer sponsorship.
• Nice-to-have qualifications include internal developer platforms, on-premises/private-cloud/bare-metal Kubernetes, Kubernetes operators/controllers, productivity or reliability metrics, Kubernetes CNI/CSI, distributed technologies, Jenkins, VPN, SSO, infrastructure security, network infrastructure, hardware/server provisioning, data center operations, and enterprise customer deployment experience

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable, reliable, and secure infrastructure across cloud, Kubernetes, on-premises, and hybrid environments.
• Identify complex infrastructure and engineering productivity challenges and drive solutions from problem definition through architecture, implementation, and production.
• Build and improve internal developer platforms, tools, and services.
• Design, build, and optimize CI/CD platforms and pipelines.
• Automate provisioning, configuration, deployment, testing, monitoring, and operational workflows.
• Improve developer experience across the software lifecycle with engineering teams.
• Develop reusable Infrastructure as Code, automation, and platform capabilities.
• Build systems with reliability, observability, resilience, security, and disaster recovery capabilities.
• Troubleshoot complex infrastructure and platform issues; participate in incident response and root-cause analysis.
• Evaluate technologies and architectural approaches and establish infrastructure standards and best practices.
• Lead technical initiatives across multiple engineering teams and contribute to infrastructure and developer productivity strategy

Skills

Kubernetes Expertise

Infrastructure as Code

CI/CD Platform Design

Cloud Infrastructure (AWS/Azure/GCP)

Strong Programming Skills (Go, Python,

Linux & Networking

Distributed Systems

Incident Response & DR

Collaboration & Communication

Problem Solving

Tools

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Jenkins

AWS

Azure

GCP

Linux

VPN

Job description

Jobtailor seeks a Senior Infrastructure/Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable, secure infrastructure across cloud, Kubernetes, on-premises, and hybrid environments.

You will drive solutions from problem definition through architecture and production, advance internal developer platforms, CI/CD pipelines, and automation, and improve the developer experience across the software lifecycle.