Senior Platform Engineer - Cloud Platform & Automation Lead

FieldNation; Minnesota; Hybrid; USD 15,000 - 20,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Gym Membership

Complimentary Lunch / Dinner

Unlimited Tea & Coffee

Transportation

Mobile Data Allowance

Career Development Budget

Work Model: Hybrid (2 days in-office,

Summer & Winter Field Weeks

Quarterly Team Outing Budget

Job summary

Field Nation seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to redefine customer experience through our internal development platform and tooling. You will empower engineers to build, deploy, and troubleshoot cloud apps with secure, reliable, and scalable foundations.

You’ll lead design, build, and support for platform engineering products, driving operational excellence and reducing toil while collaborating across teams to optimize usage and continuous improvement.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience with CI/CD tools like GitOps, Ansible, Jenkins, Github, Gitlab, etc. (GitHub, GitHub Actions/Workflows preferred)
• 4+ years of hands-on experience in DevOps/DevSecOps/SRE
• 3+ years writing secure, scalable, and resilient infrastructure as code -preferably in Terraform - and using standard SDLC methodologies for building, testing, deploying, and supporting cloud infrastructure (preferably in AWS)
• 3+ years of experience with Kubernetes (preferably EKS) and Docker
• 3+ years of experience writing automation and tools using various scripting or programming languages
• 2+ or more years building, running, and operating cloud-native applications using Docker and one or more programming languages (NodeJS, PHP, or Go preferred)
• Very strong background and passion for building secure solutions
• Working knowledge of defining and managing SLIs and SLOs and methods for using error budgets to ensure SLOs are met
• Strong knowledge of the English language and clear and crisp communication - both verbal and written
• Solid emotional intelligence and ability to collaborate with others, especially under pressure

Responsibilities

• Define, design, build, and operate the internal developer platform and tools to enable other teams
• Mentor on cloud architecture, IaC, monitoring, and operational excellence
• Participate in on-call incident response for platform/tools
• Build monitoring that alerts on symptoms and not outages
• Use metrics to improve products and ensure SLIs/SLOs
• Identify and implement platform/architecture improvements to reduce toil and improve resilience
• Apply chaos engineering to validate monitoring and HA/DR commitments

Skills

GitOps

Ansible

Jenkins

GitHub

GitHub Actions/Workflows

DevOps

SRE

Kubernetes

Docker

Terraform

AWS

NodeJS

Go

PHP

Security

SLIs/SLOs

English communication

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Software Engineering or related field

Tools

Flux

Helm

Datadog

Terraform

AWS

Job description

Field Nation seeks a Senior Platform Engineer to redefine customer experience through our internal development platform and tooling. You will empower engineers to build, deploy, and troubleshoot cloud apps with secure, reliable, and scalable foundations.

You’ll lead design, build, and support for platform engineering products, driving operational excellence and reducing toil while collaborating across teams to optimize usage and continuous improvement.