Senior Platform Engineer – AWS / Kubernetes (Remote)

securityjourney; North Carolina; Remote; USD 140,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly

Optional in-person meetings at Apex,NC

Job summary

Security Journey is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own day-to-day platform operations across AWS and Kubernetes, with a focus on reliability, scale, and developer experience.

You will run EKS clusters, build self-service tooling, and improve CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions and ArgoCD in a remote-first environment with an Apex, NC office optional for in-person collaboration.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience in Platform Engineering, DevOps, SRE, or related roles.
• Hands-on experience operating production workloads in AWS.
• Strong Kubernetes experience (EKS preferred).
• Experience with Terraform or equivalent IaC tooling.
• Experience building or owning CI/CD systems.
• Strong troubleshooting skills across networking, containers, distributed systems, and incidents.
• Ability to balance immediate needs with long-term improvements.
• Strong written communication in a remote-first environment.

Responsibilities

• Own day-to-day platform operations across AWS infrastructure and Kubernetes environments.
• Improve reliability, scalability, and performance of the learning platform.
• Operate and evolve multiple EKS clusters across production and non-production.
• Build internal self-service tooling and guardrails for developers.
• Improve CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions and GitOps with ArgoCD.
• Drive observability improvements using DataDog, including dashboards and alerts.
• Collaborate with software engineers, QA, product, and security teams to reduce friction.
• Lead infrastructure changes end-to-end using Terraform and modern IaC practices.
• Reduce toil through automation and thoughtful platform design.
• Participate in on-call rotation and mentor teammates.

Skills

Go

Python

Ruby

React

Tools

AWS

Kubernetes (EKS)

Terraform

ArgoCD

GitHub Actions

DataDog

Job description

Security Journey is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own day-to-day platform operations across AWS and Kubernetes, with a focus on reliability, scale, and developer experience.

You will run EKS clusters, build self-service tooling, and improve CI/CD workflows using GitHub Actions and ArgoCD in a remote-first environment with an Apex, NC office optional for in-person collaboration.