Senior Cloud Platform Engineer I — Remote

Eliassen Group

Trenton (NJ)

Remote

USD 138,000 - 143,000

Full time

3 days ago

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Job summary

Eliassen Group is seeking a Sr Platform Engineer I for a remote, permanent role supporting cloud-native platform engineering and DevOps across Azure IaaS/PaaS. You will implement secure, scalable infrastructure, automate provisioning with IaC, and drive platform reliability and self-service tooling in a W2 arrangement.

The role offers a competitive salary and comprehensive benefits with remote-friendly guidelines.

Qualifications

3+ years in cloud platform engineering, software engineering, systems engineering, or DevOps with hands-on work across IaaS, PaaS, AI, and containers.
Experience designing and implementing Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and automated platform provisioning with proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language.
Experience contributing to DevOps or DevSecOps practices with cross-team collaboration.
Ability to troubleshoot complex systems and improve platform reliability.

Responsibilities

Implement and contribute to the design of platform environments across cloud compute, storage, networking, and runtime layers leveraging Azure IaaS and PaaS.
Deploy and operate containerized platform-native runtime services.
Implement infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code.
Develop, maintain, and enhance reusable platform components and automation frameworks based on platform patterns and standards.
Implement security controls and policy enforcement per platform standards.
Implement identity, access, and secrets management patterns.
Enable compliance and governance through automated guardrails.
Implement monitoring and logging solutions and support observability.
Implement and support redundant, fault tolerant, and automated recovery mechanisms using zonal and multi-region patterns.
Monitor platform performance and contribute to cost optimization.
Enable consistent application deployment patterns and workflows.
Support, build, and enhance developer tooling and CI/CD platform capabilities.
Implement and maintain self-service templates and contribute to golden paths.
Contribute to abstraction layers and APIs for infrastructure and platform services.
Troubleshoot platform and infrastructure issues and perform root cause analysis.
Collaborate with team members and share knowledge.
Implement and support messaging, eventing, and API capabilities.
Enable event-driven and asynchronous communication patterns across systems.
Utilize and contribute to reusable integration patterns for application and platform services.
Perform other duties as assigned and comply with all policies and standards.