Senior Platform Engineer

Jobtailor; California (MO); On-site; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Job summary

Jobtailor in the United States is seeking an experienced Platform Engineer to design, build, and operate scalable infrastructure across Azure, AWS, and private cloud. You will own platform initiatives from design through production, and collaborate with DevOps, Security, and Engineering teams.

This role emphasizes automation, IaC with Terraform and Ansible, container orchestration with Kubernetes, and reliable CI/CD pipelines.

Qualifications

• 7+ years of experience in platform engineering or related field.

Responsibilities

• Design, build, and operate scalable platform infrastructure across Azure, AWS, and private cloud.

Skills

Platform Engineering

CI/CD Pipeline Building

Cloud Networking

Monitoring and Logging

Vulnerability Remediation

Education

Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science

Relevant Certifications

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Kubernetes

Python

Go

Linux

Job description

• Design, build, and operate scalable platform infrastructure across Azure, AWS, and private cloud environments
• Develop reusable infrastructure-as-code modules, automation frameworks, and self-service platform capabilities
• Own platform initiatives from technical design and implementation through production operations and continuous improvement
• Build and maintain container and Kubernetes platform capabilities, including deployment automation, configuration management, observability, and lifecycle management
• Develop platform tooling and automation using Terraform, Ansible, Python, and Go
• Build standardized paved paths for infrastructure provisioning, application deployment, and shared platform services
• Establish platform standards for reliability, scalability, security, performance, and cost efficiency
• Support capacity planning, performance tuning, vulnerability remediation, disaster recovery, and platform lifecycle management
• Build and improve CI/CD pipelines, monitoring, logging, alerting, and developer-facing platform services
• Troubleshoot complex platform, infrastructure, and application integration issues and lead root-cause analysis
• Develop architecture diagrams, technical documentation, operational procedures, and reusable implementation patterns
• Evaluate emerging technologies and recommend solutions improving automation, reliability, and developer productivity
• Provide technical guidance and contribute to platform architecture, standards, and roadmap decisions
• Participate in an on-call rotation and scheduled after-hours maintenance as needed
• Partner with Engineering, DevOps, Infrastructure, Network, and Cybersecurity teams to deliver scalable, secure, reliable platform services

Requirements

• 7+ years of experience in platform engineering, cloud infrastructure, DevOps, Site Reliability Engineering, or a related discipline
• Experience designing and operating production infrastructure in Azure, AWS, or comparable public cloud environments
• Strong experience developing reusable infrastructure-as-code modules and automation using Terraform and Ansible
• Hands-on experience deploying and operating containerized workloads and Kubernetes-based platforms
• Proficiency in Python, Go, or another programming language used to build platform tooling and automation
• Experience building CI/CD pipelines, self-service infrastructure capabilities, or developer-facing platform services
• Strong Linux systems administration experience, including deployment, configuration, troubleshooting, patching, and performance analysis
• Working knowledge of cloud and enterprise networking, including VPCs/VNets, subnets, routing, VPNs, load balancing, DNS, and firewalls
• Experience implementing monitoring, logging, alerting, and observability for production platforms
• Understanding of platform security, identity and access management, vulnerability remediation, and secure configuration practices
• Ability to independently lead complex technical initiatives from design through production deployment
• Strong technical documentation, communication, collaboration, and organizational skills
• Bachelor's degree in computer science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience
• Preferred: experience with commercial, government, regulated, classified, or air-gapped cloud environments
• Preferred: experience with Azure Government or AWS GovCloud, GitOps, Helm, policy as code, secrets management, service catalogs, internal developer portals, private cloud, virtualization, SLOs, incident response, hybrid-cloud architectures, aerospace/defense/manufacturing, and relevant certifications

Core Competencies

Demonstrates expertise in designing and operating scalable platform infrastructure across Azure and AWS, with a strong focus on automation, CI/CD pipelines, and container orchestration using Kubernetes. Proficient in developing infrastructure-as-code solutions and ensuring platform reliability, security, and performance.

Highest-signal resume keywords

• Platform Engineering
• Infrastructure-as-Code Development
• Kubernetes Deployment
• CI/CD Pipeline Building
• Cloud Infrastructure Management

ATS Optimization Keywords

Hard Skills

• Terraform
• Ansible
• Python
• Go
• Linux Systems Administration
• Monitoring and Logging
• Cloud Networking
• Vulnerability Remediation
• Containerization
• Technical Documentation

Soft Skills

• Communication
• Collaboration
• Organizational Skills

Certifications & Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science
• Relevant Certifications

Industry Keywords

• DevOps
• Site Reliability Engineering
• Cloud Environments
• Hybrid-Cloud Architectures
• Aerospace/Defense/Manufacturing

Tools & Technologies

• Azure
• AWS
• Kubernetes
• CI/CD Tools
• Observability Tools