Senior Platform Engineer - Cloud, CI/CD & IaC Champion

Referrals Only; United States; Remote; USD 122,000 - 184,000; Full time

Job summary

Thoughtworks seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to design, develop, and optimize our platform infrastructure, focusing on Developer Experience by building tools and automation. You will lead critical components, guide teams, and align technical decisions with business goals from the US.

Responsibilities include CI/CD design, cloud-native architectures, and security monitoring while mentoring peers and driving cost-efficient performance improvements across scalable environments.

Qualifications

• Extensive IaC experience with Terraform, GCP serverless and networking.
• Implement security monitoring and threat detection across platforms.
• Design and maintain observability and alerting with Prometheus, Grafana, Datadog or New Relic.

Responsibilities

• Lead design, implementation, and management of scalable, secure platform infrastructure.
• Architect and maintain CI/CD pipelines with automation and fast feedback loops.
• Ensure high availability, reliability, and performance of the platform.
• Troubleshoot complex platform issues and perform root cause analysis.
• Manage and optimize Docker and Kubernetes-based environments.
• Drive Infrastructure as Code adoption for scalable resource management.
• Advance DevOps and GitOps practices across the organization.
• Mentor junior engineers and provide technical guidance.
• Propose and execute platform optimization balancing cost and performance.

Skills

IaC

Security monitoring

Observability

CI/CD

Data pipelines

Containerization

Programming

Cloud cost optimization

Tools

Terraform

Ansible

Chef

Prometheus

Grafana

Datadog

New Relic

Terratest

Kitchen

InSpec

Docker

Kubernetes

Job description

Thoughtworks seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to design, develop, and optimize our platform infrastructure, focusing on Developer Experience by building tools and automation. You will lead critical components, guide teams, and align technical decisions with business goals from the US.

Responsibilities include CI/CD design, cloud-native architectures, and security monitoring while mentoring peers and driving cost-efficient performance improvements across scalable environments.