Senior Platform Engineer - Cloud, Kubernetes & CI/CD Leader

LSPedia Inc; Michigan; On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

LSPedia Inc is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own the design, implementation, and operation of the cloud platform and IaC. You will ensure reliability, observability, cost efficiency, and deployability of production infrastructure, serving as the senior technical authority for cloud and DevOps.

Responsibilities include building and managing CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, and incident response while mentoring engineers and driving cost optimization initiatives.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of professional experience in cloud infrastructure, DevOps, or platform engineering with ownership of production systems.
• Deep hands-on experience with Azure across compute, networking, identity, and data storage.
• Production-grade proficiency with infrastructure-as-code and Kubernetes administration.
• Experience designing and operating CI/CD pipelines and controlled deployment strategies for production workloads.
• Experience with observability platforms such as Datadog and mentoring engineers.

Responsibilities

• Design, implement, and maintain production cloud infrastructure, including compute, networking, identity, data services, and security controls.
• Own the infrastructure-as-code codebase end to end: module design, state management, environment promotion, drift detection, and remediation.
• Design and manage Kubernetes clusters.
• Own infrastructure observability: metrics, logs, alerts, and dashboards for rapid detection and diagnosis.
• Participate in production incident response, lead root cause analysis, and drive corrective actions to closure.
• Own cloud cost management: perform recurring analysis to identify savings and forecast costs.
• Design, implement, and maintain CI/CD pipelines and deployment strategies.
• Mentor engineers on cloud architecture and DevOps practices.

Skills

Azure Cloud

Cloud Infrastructure

Kubernetes

CI/CD Pipelines

Observability

Mentoring Engineers

Production ownership

Tools

Datadog

Terraform

GitHub Actions

Azure DevOps

Job description

LSPedia Inc is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own the design, implementation, and operation of the cloud platform and IaC. You will ensure reliability, observability, cost efficiency, and deployability of production infrastructure, serving as the senior technical authority for cloud and DevOps.

Responsibilities include building and managing CI/CD pipelines, Kubernetes clusters, and incident response while mentoring engineers and driving cost optimization initiatives.