Senior Platform Engineer: AI/ML & Cloud (Remote)

Robots and Pencils; Austin (TX); On-site; USD 150,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Robots & Pencils is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer for a 4-month contract to define and lead platform engineering strategy across complex multi-environment cloud systems. You will own infrastructure architecture end-to-end, drive DevSecOps and compliance, and mentor engineers on migrations and modernization initiatives.

You will work as a key technical contributor on a cross-functional team, ensuring platform reliability, performance, and security at scale while partnering with leadership

Qualifications

• 7+ years of professional DevOps or platform engineering experience.
• Expert Kubernetes and container orchestration skills.
• Expert IaC skills across multiple tools.
• Strong CI/CD architecture experience at scale.
• Experience with AI/ML platform infrastructure including model serving and deployment.

Responsibilities

• Define DevOps strategy and lead infrastructure architecture across multi-environment cloud systems.
• Architect and own scalable Kubernetes platforms and containerized infrastructure at scale.
• Lead DevSecOps implementation including secrets management, compliance, auditing, IAM, and zero-trust networking.
• Drive platform reliability, performance SLAs, and cost optimization across production systems.
• Mentor engineers, lead complex migrations and modernization initiatives, and collaborate with leadership.

Skills

DevOps leadership

Cloud architecture

Mentoring

Stakeholder communication

Tools

Python

Go

Java

Bash

Kubernetes

Terraform

Job description

Robots & Pencils is seeking a Staff Platform Engineer for a 4-month contract to define and lead platform engineering strategy across complex multi-environment cloud systems. You will own infrastructure architecture end-to-end, drive DevSecOps and compliance, and mentor engineers on migrations and modernization initiatives.

You will work as a key technical contributor on a cross-functional team, ensuring platform reliability, performance, and security at scale while partnering with leadership