Senior Platform Engineer: Cloud Foundation & Observability

Foresight Works Ltd; 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 Works Ltd in New York seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to design and run the cloud foundation that powers our AI-driven infrastructure projects. You will build the programmatic AWS environments, pipelines, and observability that let engineers ship safely and quickly.

This hands-on role emphasizes security by default, cost awareness, and treating the platform as a product. You will mentor others, set standards, and own incident response in a small, fast-moving team.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience building and running production infrastructure on AWS.
• Strong in infrastructure-as-code with Terraform, CDK or similar.
• Experience running containerized services on AWS (ECS/EKS/Lambda).
• Built and owned CI/CD pipelines with automated testing and rollback.
• Hands-on with observability: logs, metrics, traces, SLOs and alerting.
• Cloud security: IAM least privilege, network design, secrets management and encryption.
• Comfortable coding in Python or Go for tooling and automation.
• Calm and clear in incident communication; able to make pragmatic trade-offs.
• Experience with OpenTelemetry and Grafana/Prometheus/Loki is a bonus.

Responsibilities

• Treat other engineers as customers; build paved roads, templates and self-service tools.
• Keep the platform as simple as the problem allows.
• Automate everything reaching production; no manual changes to live systems.
• Own cloud cost: track spend by service and customer as we grow.
• Lead incident response and blameless postmortems; fix root causes.
• Help set infrastructure standards; shape the platform as one of its first engineers.

Skills

AWS ownership

Infrastructure as code

Container services AWS

CI/CD pipelines

Observability

Cloud security

Python/Go coding

Incident communication

OpenTelemetry

GitOps / canary

ML/AI infra

FinOps

Tools

Terraform

CDK

ECS

EKS

Lambda

Grafana

Prometheus

Loki

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Foresight Works Ltd in New York seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to design and run the cloud foundation that powers our AI-driven infrastructure projects. You will build the programmatic AWS environments, pipelines, and observability that let engineers ship safely and quickly.

This hands-on role emphasizes security by default, cost awareness, and treating the platform as a product. You will mentor others, set standards, and own incident response in a small, fast-moving team.