Senior Platform Engineer: Cloud, Kubernetes & Automation

Jobgether; United States; On-site; USD 140,000 - 201,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Comprehensive benefits

Bonus opportunities

Location-based compensation details

Reasonable accommodation during hiring

Job summary

Jobgether, on behalf of a partner company, seeks a Senior Platform Engineer based in the United States to build and operate scalable cloud platforms supporting critical enterprise applications.

You will work extensively with Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Terraform, and modern CI/CD practices to improve infrastructure and software delivery, while enabling developer productivity and AI/LLM explorations within the platform ecosystem.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, a related technical discipline, or equivalent practical experience.
• 5+ years of direct experience with public cloud environments, including Kubernetes, VPC, Cloud Run, and enterprise infrastructure management.
• Strong hands-on expertise with GCP and infrastructure automation using Terraform, Ansible, and SaltStack.
• 5+ years of experience leading software development lifecycle initiatives, implementing CI/CD pipelines, and supporting enterprise applications.
• 5+ years of experience with Linux system internals, containerization, autonomous task workflows, and establishing security guardrails.
• At least 2 years of programming experience with languages such as Python or Java.
• Experience with monitoring and logging ecosystems such as GCP Monitoring, Prometheus, Datadog, Dynatrace, or ELK.
• Strong troubleshooting and analytical skills, with the ability to diagnose complex system-level and distributed application issues.
• Excellent communication and cross-functional collaboration skills.
• Experience architecting and deploying AI/LLM solutions using technologies such as Gemini, Vertex AI, or ADK is preferred.
• Experience managing multi-cloud environments and optimizing application performance across standalone and distributed systems is also preferred.

Responsibilities

• Architect, deploy, and maintain scalable and reliable systems and enterprise applications on Google Cloud Platform.
• Establish and maintain infrastructure-as-code standards using Terraform, while leveraging automation tools such as Ansible and SaltStack.
• Design and implement end-to-end CI/CD pipelines that accelerate software delivery and reduce manual processes.
• Manage critical enterprise applications and develop automated deployment, upgrade, and operational workflows.
• Lead incident management activities, perform root cause analyses, and participate in on-call rotations to maintain high service availability.
• Collaborate with engineering teams to optimize system performance, resource utilization, and cloud infrastructure costs through rightsizing.
• Build and maintain internal developer platforms, tools, and automation that improve engineering productivity.
• Strengthen Linux, container, and cloud environments through security guardrails, monitoring, logging, and reliable operational practices.

Skills

Communication

Cross-functional collaboration

Programming (Python/Java)

Linux system internals

Cloud platforms

Kubernetes

CI/CD pipelines

Monitoring/logging

Security guardrails

Troubleshooting

Education

Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related

Tools

GCP

Kubernetes

Terraform

Ansible

SaltStack

CI/CD tooling

Prometheus

Datadog

Dynatrace

ELK

Job description

Jobgether, on behalf of a partner company, seeks a Senior Platform Engineer based in the United States to build and operate scalable cloud platforms supporting critical enterprise applications.

You will work extensively with Google Cloud Platform, Kubernetes, Terraform, and modern CI/CD practices to improve infrastructure and software delivery, while enabling developer productivity and AI/LLM explorations within the platform ecosystem.