Senior Cloud Platform Engineer – Global IoT Scale (AWS)

Gallagher Animal Management; Kansas City (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k) with employer contributions

Professional development

Career growth

Job summary

eShepherd, backed by Gallagher Animal Management, is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to scale the technology behind a leading AgTech platform. This role centers on AWS scalability, database performance, and platform reliability across regions.

You’ll be North American engineering lead, partnering with R&D teams in New Zealand and Australia to support a global base of farmers and ranchers, while driving CI/CD, IaC, and observability initiatives.

Qualifications

• Strong AWS infrastructure experience (ECS, EKS, RDS).
• Deep MySQL and database optimisation expertise.
• DevOps and Infrastructure as Code experience.
• Performance tuning, monitoring and incident response capability.
• Experience supporting production systems at scale.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work across time zones.
• Curiosity, initiative and a data-driven approach to problem solving.

Responsibilities

• Shape the architecture of a rapidly growing IoT platform.
• Scale cloud infrastructure to support global deployments across regions.
• Improve database performance and reliability for high-traffic workloads.
• Establish and enhance CI/CD pipelines, automation, and observability.
• Collaborate across time zones with R&D teams in NZ and Australia.

Skills

AWS (ECS/EKS)

MySQL tuning

IaC / DevOps

Performance monitoring

Production-scale systems

Cross-timezone collaboration

Clear communication

Problem solving

Job description

eShepherd, backed by Gallagher Animal Management, is seeking a Senior Cloud Platform Engineer to scale the technology behind a leading AgTech platform. This role centers on AWS scalability, database performance, and platform reliability across regions.

You’ll be North American engineering lead, partnering with R&D teams in New Zealand and Australia to support a global base of farmers and ranchers, while driving CI/CD, IaC, and observability initiatives.