Remote Platform Engineer: GitOps, SRE & Kubernetes

OAG Aviation Worldwide; United States; Remote; USD 93,000 - 146,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Bonus scheme

Pension plan

Remote work

Birthday day off

Job summary

OAG Aviation Worldwide is seeking a Platform Engineer to deploy and operate services across our multi-cloud (AWS and Azure) environment. You will build GitOps-driven CI/CD pipelines and automate infrastructure with Terraform/OpenTofu, while maintaining production Kubernetes clusters and improving observability with OpenTelemetry, Grafana and Prometheus.

You’ll apply SRE and IaC practices daily, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and help enforce zero-trust security with policy-as-code

Qualifications

• Experience implementing CI/CD and version-control practices using GitHub Actions or similar tools.
• Practical knowledge of AWS and/or Azure cloud, networking, containers and Kubernetes.
• Practical knowledge of infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform/OpenTofu, Crossplane).
• Practical knowledge of at least one modern, vendor-neutral observability tool (e.g. OpenTelemetry, Grafana, Prometheus).
• Security-minded, with some exposure to policy-as-code and zero-trust tooling (e.g. OPA/Conftest, Kyverno, Cilium, SPIFFE/SPIRE) or similar.
• Comfortable scripting in Python, Bash, or similar.
• Curiosity about applying AI tooling (e.g. AI coding assistants, AI-assisted testing or AI-assisted incident response) to speed up delivery and support.
• Strong troubleshooting and problem-solving skills, with a strong sense of ownership and a quality-first mindset.
• Clear communicator and effective team player.

Responsibilities

• Deploy and operate services across our multi-cloud environment.
• Build GitOps-driven CI/CD pipelines and automate infrastructure and support processes.
• Operate production environments on Kubernetes and improve observability, reliability and efficiency.
• Apply SRE and IaC practices daily, collaborating with developers and other teams.
• Enforce zero-trust security and policy-as-code guardrails across the platform.
• Support identity, audit and policy models across data platforms and automation.
• Participate in on-call support and incident response; use AI tools to accelerate work.

Skills

Clear communicator

Team player

Ownership

Troubleshooting

Tools

GitHub Actions

AWS

Azure

Kubernetes

Terraform/OpenTofu

Crossplane

OpenTelemetry

Grafana

Prometheus

Kyverno

OPA/Conftest

Cilium

SPIFFE/SPIRE

GitOps

Snowflake

Databricks

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Job description

OAG Aviation Worldwide is seeking a Platform Engineer to deploy and operate services across our multi-cloud (AWS and Azure) environment. You will build GitOps-driven CI/CD pipelines and automate infrastructure with Terraform/OpenTofu, while maintaining production Kubernetes clusters and improving observability with OpenTelemetry, Grafana and Prometheus.

You’ll apply SRE and IaC practices daily, collaborate with cross-functional teams, and help enforce zero-trust security with policy-as-code