Senior Cloud Platform Engineer - Infra & Reliability

VGS; Town of Poland (NY); On-site; USD 70,000 - 90,000; Full time

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.