Senior Platform Engineer: Cloud, IaC & Automation Lead

Marathon Health; United States; On-site; USD 115,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

Marathon Health is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and own the core cloud infrastructure platforms, focusing on automation, infrastructure-as-code, reliability-by-design, and self-service enablement for engineering teams.

This role works with platform leadership to guide direction, mentor engineers, and ensure platform standards are applied across domains, primarily on AWS. Strong DevOps and security focus are essential.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in computer science or Information Technology; 5+ years in cloud infrastructure/platform engineering/DevOps.
• Hands-on AWS production experience.
• Terraform preferred; IaC expertise.
• Scripting in Python/Bash; automation skills.
• Experience with Git/GitHub and CI/CD tooling.
• Experience designing secure, scalable systems.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain core cloud platform capabilities on AWS.
• Build reusable infrastructure primitives as standardized components.
• Enforce Infrastructure-as-Code using Terraform for provisioning.
• Define platform standards, reference architectures, and patterns.
• Design for reliability with automation and recovery patterns.
• Develop self-service capabilities for application teams.
• Partner with Security to meet SOC2/HIPAA/HITRUST by default.
• Embed security and cost-awareness early in CI/CD workflows.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to reduce incidents.
• Mentor engineers and share patterns and guidance.
• Maintain ownership of platform standards across domains.

Skills

AWS

Terraform

Scripting (Python/Bash)

Git & GitHub

CI/CD tooling

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/IT

Tools

Octopus Deploy

Job description

Marathon Health is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to design, build, and own the core cloud infrastructure platforms, focusing on automation, infrastructure-as-code, reliability-by-design, and self-service enablement for engineering teams.

This role works with platform leadership to guide direction, mentor engineers, and ensure platform standards are applied across domains, primarily on AWS. Strong DevOps and security focus are essential.