Senior Platform Engineer: Cloud, Kubernetes & CI/CD

CivicPlus; United States; Remote; USD 104,000 - 157,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Dental insurance

Vision insurance

Flexible Time Off

401(k) plan

Job summary

The Senior Platform Engineer at CivicPlus will be a technical leader, owning platform domains from design to evolution. You will drive reliability, security, and scalability while identifying risks before they materialize.

You’ll architect cloud landing zones, IAM frameworks, and IaC standards, mentor engineers, and partner with SRE on reliability reviews. You’ll champion AI-assisted productivity and evaluate new tools across multi-cloud environments.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of engineering experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, or cloud operations.
• Expert-level Terraform module authoring, state management and governance.
• Production Kubernetes expertise including cluster lifecycle, networking, storage and security.
• Strong multi-cloud experience (AWS and Azure preferred).
• Proficiency in Python or Go for automation and tooling development.
• Experience designing CI/CD architectures for large engineering organizations.
• AI-forward mindset to leverage AI tools for productivity and quality.

Responsibilities

• Own the design, implementation, and continuous improvement of platform domains (e.g., CI/CD, Kubernetes, cloud foundations).
• Architect and implement cloud landing zones, network topologies, and identity frameworks.
• Define and enforce IaC standards and module design patterns across the team.
• Lead production incident response for P0/P1 platform incidents; drive post-incident reviews.
• Drive automation initiatives that reduce toil for platform engineers and product teams.
• Mentor and perform technical code reviews for L1/L2 engineers.
• Partner with SRE on reliability reviews for new platform components.
• Contribute to platform roadmap planning with independent opportunities and risks.
• Evaluate and recommend new tools, services, and frameworks for adoption.

Skills

Terraform

Kubernetes

AWS/Azure

Python/Go

CI/CD architectures

AI tooling

Job description

The Senior Platform Engineer at CivicPlus will be a technical leader, owning platform domains from design to evolution. You will drive reliability, security, and scalability while identifying risks before they materialize.

You’ll architect cloud landing zones, IAM frameworks, and IaC standards, mentor engineers, and partner with SRE on reliability reviews. You’ll champion AI-assisted productivity and evaluate new tools across multi-cloud environments.