Senior Internal Dev Platform Engineer (Hybrid)

American Family Insurance; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 99,000 - 167,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

401(k) contribution

Pension plan

Paid holidays

Paid time off

Job summary

American Family Insurance is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate cloud platform and DevOps capabilities across AWS and GCP. You will enable reliable, secure, and scalable delivery by developing Kubernetes and IaC foundations, building CI/CD pipelines, and driving automation across engineering teams.

This hybrid Boston-based role emphasizes Backstage experience, Terraform, Kubernetes, and observability tooling like Datadog.

Qualifications

• Proven experience designing, implementing, and operating a cloud platform and DevOps capabilities across AWS and GCP.
• Expertise in Kubernetes, IaC, and automated tooling to enable reliable delivery across engineering teams.
• Experience building self-service tools and improving developer experience through Backstage plugins and templates.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate cloud platform and DevOps capabilities across AWS and GCP.
• Develop Kubernetes and Infrastructure-as-Code foundations to enable scalable delivery.
• Build and maintain CI/CD pipelines and automate tooling across engineering teams.
• Drive observability, reliability, and security practices (SRE) in cloud platforms.

Skills

Backstage development

Cloud platforms (AWS & GCP)

Kubernetes (EKS/GKE)

IaC with Terraform

Crossplane.io

CI/CD pipelines

GitLab CI/CD

Jenkins / GitHub Actions

Argo CD/Flux

Datadog observability

SRE principles

Python / Go / Bash

Tools

Backstage.io

Terraform

Crossplane.io

Docker

Kubernetes

Artifactory

GitLab CI

Jenkins

GitHub Actions

Argo CD/Flux

Job description

American Family Insurance is seeking a Cloud Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate cloud platform and DevOps capabilities across AWS and GCP. You will enable reliable, secure, and scalable delivery by developing Kubernetes and IaC foundations, building CI/CD pipelines, and driving automation across engineering teams.

This hybrid Boston-based role emphasizes Backstage experience, Terraform, Kubernetes, and observability tooling like Datadog.