Senior Platform Engineer | DevOps, SRE & Observability

Focused; Denver (CO); On-site; USD 130,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Focused is seeking an experienced Senior Platform Consultant to help organizations implement, optimize, and scale their infrastructure. The role requires in-office presence in Denver three days per week with up to 20% travel within the United States.

The Denver base salary range for this role is $130,000 - $180,000. Sponsorship is not available. You will work across AWS, GCP, and Azure, building scalable cloud-native observability and DevOps solutions.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of Platform Engineering or DevOps experience.

Responsibilities

• Augment existing infrastructure with integrated observability solutions.
• Implement Infrastructure as Code (IaC) solutions using Terraform, Pulumi, CloudFormation, etc.
• Architect and manage Kubernetes clusters with comprehensive monitoring and logging.
• Build CI/CD pipelines with embedded observability and automated testing.
• Establish and maintain Service Level Indicators (SLIs), Objectives (SLOs), and Agreements (SLAs).
• Implement error budgets, toil reduction strategies, and capacity planning.

Skills

Platform Engineering

DevOps

Kubernetes

Observability

SRE

Cloud & Infrastructure

Programming languages

Tools

Terraform

Pulumi

CloudFormation

CDK

GitHub Actions

GitLab CI

Jenkins

ArgoCD

Docker

Podman

OpenTelemetry

Job description

Focused is seeking an experienced Senior Platform Consultant to help organizations implement, optimize, and scale their infrastructure. The role requires in-office presence in Denver three days per week with up to 20% travel within the United States.

The Denver base salary range for this role is $130,000 - $180,000. Sponsorship is not available. You will work across AWS, GCP, and Azure, building scalable cloud-native observability and DevOps solutions.