Senior Platform Engineer — AI-Driven Cloud & DevOps Lead (Hybrid)

Scion Staffing; Austin (TX); Hybrid; USD 114,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid/Onsite Schedule

Relocation assistance

Annual bonus 10-15%

Competitive base up to $190k

Fridays remote

Job summary

Scion Staffing has been engaged to recruit a Senior Platform Engineer for a fast-growing streaming media and ad-tech firm. This direct-hire, hybrid role is based in Austin, Texas, with Mon-Thu onsite and Fridays remote. Visa sponsorship is not available.

The Senior Platform Engineer will lead DevOps, cloud infra, and platform practices across teams, focusing on AI-enabled tooling, reliability, and scalable pipelines in a cloud-driven environment.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional Platform Engineering/DevOps/SRE experience.
• Experience operating production cloud infra, AWS preferred; GCP beneficial.
• Strong Terraform expertise and IaC patterns.
• Experience designing/building CI/CD systems for automated delivery.
• Experience supporting containerized/serverless workloads and observability.
• Daily use of AI coding tools to accelerate engineering and code review.

Responsibilities

• Own and improve cloud infrastructure in an AWS-centric environment; ensure scalability and reliability.
• Lead infrastructure-as-code via reusable Terraform patterns.
• Design, maintain, and optimize CI/CD pipelines and deployment processes.
• Create AI-enabled workflows to strengthen testing, code review, and velocity.
• Establish shared platform standards across engineering teams to avoid duplication.
• Strengthen observability, metrics, tracing, logging, and incident response; handle on-call support.

Skills

Cloud infrastructure

DevOps / SRE

CI/CD pipelines

AI coding tools

Python

Terraform

Observability

On-call rotation

Ownership

Tools

AWS

GCP

CI/CD tooling

Terraform patterns

Job description

Scion Staffing has been engaged to recruit a Senior Platform Engineer for a fast-growing streaming media and ad-tech firm. This direct-hire, hybrid role is based in Austin, Texas, with Mon-Thu onsite and Fridays remote. Visa sponsorship is not available.

The Senior Platform Engineer will lead DevOps, cloud infra, and platform practices across teams, focusing on AI-enabled tooling, reliability, and scalable pipelines in a cloud-driven environment.