Senior Platform Engineer: Cloud, CI/CD & Observability

Foresight Works; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

401(k)

PTO

Job summary

Foresight is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to build the cloud foundation for its data-centric product suite. You will design and run infrastructure, delivery pipelines and observability to empower engineers to ship safely and quickly.

You will ensure security and compliance by default, so enterprise customers can trust the platform with their most critical data. This hands-on role rewards ownership and product-minded thinking.

Qualifications

• 5+ years building and running production infrastructure on AWS.
• Infrastructure-as-code with Terraform or CDK.
• Experience with containerized services on AWS (ECS/EKS/Lambda).
• Built and owned CI/CD pipelines with automated tests and rollback.
• Hands-on observability: logs, metrics, traces and SLOs.
• Strong cloud security; IAM, network design and encryption.
• Proficient in Python or Go for tooling and automation.
• Calm, clear communication during incidents on a small team.

Responsibilities

• Design and run the cloud foundation and infrastructure that powers the platform.
• Build delivery pipelines with automated tests, security scanning, and quick rollback.
• Implement observability across services within budget and constraints.
• Maintain security and compliance by default (SOC 2, ISO 27001).
• Own cloud cost visibility by service and customer; optimize as we grow.
• Lead incident response and blameless postmortems to address root causes.
• Help set infrastructure standards and shape the platform as an early engineer.

Skills

AWS ownership

IaC (Terraform/CDK)

ECS/EKS/Lambda

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Cloud security

Python or Go

Incident response

Tools

Terraform

CDK

Kubernetes

Grafana

Prometheus

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Foresight is hiring a Senior Platform Engineer to build the cloud foundation for its data-centric product suite. You will design and run infrastructure, delivery pipelines and observability to empower engineers to ship safely and quickly.

You will ensure security and compliance by default, so enterprise customers can trust the platform with their most critical data. This hands-on role rewards ownership and product-minded thinking.