Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - Infra & Reliability

VGS

Town of Poland (NY)

On-site

USD 70,000 - 90,000

Full time

14 days+
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Job summary

VGS is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. You will build and scale global cloud infrastructure for mission-critical payments applications with zero downtime, ownership from day one, and a focus on reliability.

You will drive resiliency through automation, implement GitOps-driven CI/CD, and mentor engineers while collaborating with Security and Core Engineering to accelerate developer workflows.

Qualifications

  • 5+ years in large-scale distributed systems in mission-critical environments.
  • Proficient in AWS and Terraform for reproducible environments.
  • Hands-on with Kubernetes (EKS), Docker, and GitOps workflows.
  • Proficient in Python, Go, or Bash for infra automation.
  • Experience with Prometheus, Grafana, or OpenTelemetry.
  • Strong understanding of cloud security, APIs, load balancing, and network isolation.

Responsibilities

  • Build immutable, self-healing AWS infrastructure and code-managed platforms.
  • Reduce toil with automated infrastructure solutions via GitOps and CI/CD pipelines.
  • Configure telemetry tooling and participate in blameless post-mortems.
  • Partner with Product, Security, and Core Engineering to streamline developer workflows.
  • Maintain high-performance, low-latency private connectivity for external traffic.

Skills

Ownership at scale
AWS & IaC
Kubernetes & Docker
Automation scripting
Observability tooling
Security fundamentals

Education

BA/BS degree

Tools

Terraform
Flux
Argo
GitHub Actions

Job description

VGS is seeking a Senior Infrastructure Engineer to join our Platform Engineering team. You will build and scale global cloud infrastructure for mission-critical payments applications with zero downtime, ownership from day one, and a focus on reliability.

You will drive resiliency through automation, implement GitOps-driven CI/CD, and mentor engineers while collaborating with Security and Core Engineering to accelerate developer workflows.

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