Senior Platform Engineer — Cloud, Kubernetes & IaC Lead

CivicPlus, LLC; United States; On-site; 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

CivicPlus is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own and evolve platform domains such as CI/CD and Kubernetes, shaping cloud foundations and tooling. You will lead design efforts, define IaC standards, and drive reliability, security, and scalability across production systems.

You will mentor engineers, partner with SRE on reliability reviews, and contribute to the platform roadmap while exploring AI-assisted tooling to boost productivity and outcomes.

Qualifications

• 5–8 years of engineering experience in platform engineering, infrastructure, or cloud operations.
• Expert-level Terraform: module authoring, state management, remote backends, and governance.
• Production Kubernetes expertise: cluster lifecycle, networking, storage, security policies, and multi-tenancy.
• Strong multi-cloud experience with 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 with ability to leverage AI tools to improve productivity.

Responsibilities

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

Skills

Terraform expert

Kubernetes

Multi-cloud AWS/Azure

Python or Go

CI/CD architectures

AI tooling for productivity

Job description

CivicPlus is seeking a Senior Platform Engineer to own and evolve platform domains such as CI/CD and Kubernetes, shaping cloud foundations and tooling. You will lead design efforts, define IaC standards, and drive reliability, security, and scalability across production systems.

You will mentor engineers, partner with SRE on reliability reviews, and contribute to the platform roadmap while exploring AI-assisted tooling to boost productivity and outcomes.