Senior Platform Engineer - 100% remote from anywhere in the US

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Job summary

A leading company seeking an experienced Senior Platform Engineer for a remote position. The role involves enhancing infrastructure scalability, driving automation, and ensuring compliance with security standards. Ideal candidates will have extensive experience in AWS, automation tools, and CI/CD processes.

Qualifications

• Deep expertise in AWS infrastructure and services.
• Excellent proficiency with Terraform, Python, SQL, and automation tooling.
• Experience with Docker and container orchestration.

Responsibilities

• Architect, implement, and maintain highly available and scalable infrastructure.
• Develop automation pipelines for continuous delivery.
• Ensure security best practices and compliance.

Skills

AWS services

Python

Terraform

Docker

SQL

CI/CD systems

Observability & Monitoring

Education

8+ years experience as Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Site Reliability Engineer

Job description

Senior Platform Engineer - 100% remote from anywhere in the US

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Position Summary:

Our client is seeking a highly skilled and experienced Senior Platform Developer II to join their team. This pivotal role will be instrumental in building, scaling, and maintain the robust and secure infrastructure that powers our mission-critical platform.

You will be a force multiplier, enabling our development teams to deliver features faster and more reliably. You will champion infrastructure-as-code principles, contribute code to platform scalability, drive automation across the entire software development lifecycle, and ensure our platform meets the highest standards of scalability, performance, and security.

Position Responsibilities:

Architect, implement, and maintain highly available, scalable, and secure platform & infrastructure

Develop and maintain robust automation pipelines for continuous delivery (CI/CD), and infrastructure provisioning tools like GoCD, Harness, and Terraform

Write clean, efficient, and well-tested Python code for automation, tooling and service development.

Manage and optimize relational or in-memory databases, including PostgreSQL, Redshift and Redis, ensuring high performance, reliability, and data integrity.

Administer and finetune container orchestration platforms such EKS and ECS.

Implement and manage serverless architectures leveraging AWS Lambda for various platform functionalities.

Collaborate closely with development teams to ensure infrastructure aligns with application requirements and best practices.

Lead efforts in defining and enforcing security best practices across the platform, including adherence to HIPAA standards, FISMA, SOC II, and FedRAMP compliance standards.

Monitor systems performance, identify bottlenecks, and implement proactive solutions to ensure optimal operation and scalability.

Participate in on-call rotations to provide operational support and incident response.

Champion Agile/Scrum methodologies, actively participating in sprint planning, stand-ups, and retrospectives.

Mentor junior developers and contribute to a culture of technical excellence and continuous improvement.

Evaluate and recommend new technologies and tools to enhance platform capabilities and efficiency.

Develop internal tooling and automation scripts using Python and work with SQL to support operational workflows.

Implement observability (monitoring/logging/alerting) best practices for highly available SaaS services.

Requirements

8+ years of experience as a Platform Engineer, DevOps Engineer, or Site Reliability Engineer.

Deep expertise in AWS infrastructure and services including but not limited to EC2, Lambda, ECS, EKS, RDS, S3, VPC, CloudWatch, SQS, SNS, IAM, Kinesis

Excellent proficiency with Terraform, Python, SQL, and automation tooling.

Extensive experience with Docker and container orchestration (Kubernetes/EKS).

Solid understanding and hands-on experience with SQL, database administration (PostgreSQL preferred), and performance tuning

Experience with CI/CD systems (e.g., GoCD, GitHub Actions, Harness).

Proven experience in automating Observability & Monitoring (Grafana, Kibana, Prometheus), standardizing incident response for alerts to maintain SLAs and SLOs

Hands-on experience in environments compliant with FISMA, SOC 2, and/or FedRAMP.

Background in building highly scalable, performant SaaS platforms.

Excellent communication, collaboration and problem-solving skills.

Ability to work effectively with cross-functional teams, including developers, IT security & compliance, product manager, and scrum masters.

Strong experience in production on call rotations and responding to alerts.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Engineering and Information Technology

• Industries

  Software Development

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