Senior Platform Engineer — Cloud Reliability & Automation

CentralReach, LLC; Holmdel Township (NJ); Hybrid; USD 200,000 - 215,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Hybrid work model

Health benefits

Paid time off

401(k) matching

Parental leave

Career development support

Wellness programs

CR Cares community engagement

Job summary

CentralReach, LLC is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to define and advance cloud platform capabilities, enabling secure, reliable, and scalable product delivery. You will partner across Platform and Software Engineering to modernize legacy systems and raise the technical bar for services built, deployed, and operated.

The role emphasizes hands-on AWS, Kubernetes, GitOps (ArgoCD), observability, automation, and delivery tooling, plus mentoring engineers and shaping platform investments.

Qualifications

• 10+ years building and operating mission-critical platforms across DevOps, infrastructure, cloud, or software engineering.
• Principal-level architecture judgment across scalability, reliability, security, observability, and operational excellence.
• Advanced AWS expertise across compute, networking, storage, identity, containers, serverless, messaging, data, and observability services.
• Deep hands-on capability with CI/CD, infrastructure as code, Kubernetes, GitOps practices, ArgoCD and associated tooling, deployment automation, source control, and production scripting.
• Comfort contributing to cross-functional architecture forums, shaping future platform investments through strong technical perspectives and collaborative influence.
• Proven ability to mentor senior engineers, set durable standards, and strengthen a high-accountability platform engineering culture.

Responsibilities

• Define the technical vision for secure, resilient, scalable cloud platform services that improve developer productivity and customer outcomes.
• Lead modernization of legacy infrastructure and help guide application developers toward modern, service-based deployments through collaboration.
• Establish platform reliability practices, including SLOs, observability, operational readiness, incident response, and continuous KPI improvement.
• Raise delivery standards through safer deployments, stronger security controls, robust data protection, and disciplined asset management.
• Improve developer experience by building effective tooling, feedback loops, and self-service capabilities that significantly increase engineering productivity.
• Mentor engineers and influence architecture, standards, and execution across teams through principal-level technical leadership.

Skills

Mission-critical platforms

Architecture judgment

AWS expertise

Kubernetes

GitOps/ArgoCD

CI/CD

Infrastructure as code

Automation

Production scripting

Cross-functional influence

Tools

ArgoCD

CI/CD tooling

IaC

Job description

CentralReach, LLC is seeking a Principal Platform Engineer to define and advance cloud platform capabilities, enabling secure, reliable, and scalable product delivery. You will partner across Platform and Software Engineering to modernize legacy systems and raise the technical bar for services built, deployed, and operated.

The role emphasizes hands-on AWS, Kubernetes, GitOps (ArgoCD), observability, automation, and delivery tooling, plus mentoring engineers and shaping platform investments.