Senior Platform Engineer

Veeva Systems; United States; Hybrid; USD 115,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical coverage

Flexible PTO

Retirement programs

1% charitable giving

Job summary

Veeva Systems is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to own analytics infrastructure on AWS and Kubernetes, including GitOps, CI/CD, and cost/performance optimization. You will drive reliability from day one with strict security controls and policy-driven deployments.

You will lead GitLab pipelines, manage Lambda and Cloud services, and ensure observability across multiple environments while aligning with our Work Anywhere culture.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of hands-on platform engineering experience with automation and distributed systems.
• 3+ years on AWS and Kubernetes (EKS) with production workload management including RBAC/IRSA.
• Expert-level GitLab CI/CD with shell and Docker runner management; Bash scripting for deployment orchestration.
• ArgoCD and GitOps experience across environments.
• Proficient in Terraform as the primary IaC tool.

Responsibilities

• Own and operate the AWS and Kubernetes platform focusing on reliability, cost, and performance.
• Lead GitOps deployments: policy sync, deployment order, and config management.
• Own end-to-end CI/CD pipelines, including GitLab deployments and Docker runner management.
• Own incident response for the platform and document post-mortems.
• Establish platform observability for analytics and monitoring across environments.
• Maintain security baselines, access controls, and secrets management.

Skills

Platform engineering

AWS & Kubernetes (EKS)

GitLab CI/CD

RBAC & IRSA concepts

Bash scripting

Security fundamentals

Tools

ArgoCD

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Job description

Veeva Systems is a mission-driven organization and pioneer in industry cloud, helping life sciences companies bring therapies to patients faster. As one of the fastest-growing SaaS companies in history, we surpassed $3B in revenue in our last fiscal year with extensive growth potential ahead.

At the heart of Veeva are our values: Do the Right Thing, Customer Success, Employee Success, and Speed. We’re not just any public company – we made history in 2021 by becoming a public benefit corporation, legally bound to balancing the interests of customers, employees, society, and investors.

As a Work Anywhere company, we support your flexibility to work from home or in the office, so you can thrive in your ideal environment.

Join us in transforming the life sciences industry, committed to making a positive impact on its customers, employees, and communities.

The Role

The NitroAI team is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to take dedicated ownership ofour business consulting teams’ analytics infrastructure — an AWS and Kubernetesplatform that’s ready for a focused engineering owner. You’ll be the sole dedicatedplatform engineer on business consulting, with high autonomy in execution and room toshape how the platform evolves. This role is for a hands-on self-starter who thrives onbalancing performance, cost, and reliability, with an eye toward compliance from dayone.

What You’ll Do

• Own and operate the AWS and Kubernetes platform: reliability, cost, and performance are your responsibility
• Lead GitOps deployments: sync policies, deployment ordering, and configuration management
• Own CI/CD end-to-end: design and maintain GitLab pipelines including shell and Docker runner management, automating promotion across local development, stage, and production
• Own incident response for the platform: diagnose failures, lead recovery, and document post-mortems
• Establish platform observability for analytics business consulting: monitoring, alerting, and log visibility
• Maintain security baselines, access controls, and secrets management

Requirements

• 5+ years hands-on platform engineering experience with a strong focus on automation, tooling, and building distributed, scalable systems. 3+ on AWS and Kubernetes specifically EKS and Kubernetes: production workload management including RBAC and IRSA
• Expert-level GitLab CI/CD: including shell and Docker runner management, strong Bash scripting for deployment orchestration. GitLab preferred, GitHub Actions acceptable
• ArgoCD and GitOps: production experience managing workloads across environments
• Proficiency with Terraform as the primary Infrastructure as Code tool
• AWS fluency: Lambda, ALB, WAF, CloudFront, Cognito, Secrets Manager, Route53,KMS, ECR, VPC networking and public-facing application hosting
• Working knowledge of security baselines and compliance-oriented infrastructure design

Nice to Have

• Experience managing Apache Airflow implementation via MWAA
• Proficiency with Claude Code
• Okta or SSO integration for platform authentication
• Serverless Framework for Lambda and function deployment pipelines
• Databricks Asset Bundles (DABs) for notebook and job deployment
• Grafana for platform observability
• SOC-2 compliance experience in a data engineering context

Interviewing with Veeva

We value your time and believe in a transparent hiring process. Here is the process you can expect.

• Within 3 days, you will receive a link to a personality assessment administered by a third party.
• Once you complete the assessment, our team will review your full application package and follow up via email with our decision.
• If moving to the interview stage, the process is as follows:
  1. A conversation with the hiring manager
  2. A practical case exercise
  3. A final conversation with our group’s Senior Leader.
• Once all interviews are complete, the manager will be in touch with a final decision.

Perks & Benefits

• Medical, dental, vision, and basic life insurance
• Flexible PTO and company paid holidays
• Retirement programs
• 1% charitable giving program

Compensation

• Base pay: $115,000 - $175,000
• The salary range listed here has been provided to comply with local regulations and represents a potential base salary range for this role. Please note that actual salaries may vary within the range above or below, depending on experience and location. We look at compensation for each individual and base our offer on your unique qualifications, experience, and expected contributions. This position may also be eligible for other types of compensation in addition to base salary, such as variable bonus and/or stock bonus.

Veeva’s headquarters is located in the San Francisco Bay Area with offices in more than 15 countries around the world.

Veeva is an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, religion, national origin or ancestry, age, disability, marital status, pregnancy, protected veteran status, protected genetic information, political affiliation, or any other characteristics protected by local laws, regulations, or ordinances. If you need assistance or accommodation due to a disability or special need when applying for a role or in our recruitment process, please contact us at [e-mail].