Senior Platform Engineer I – Remote Cloud & DevOps

Eliassen Group; Austin (TX); Remote; USD 138,000 - 143,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote work

Job summary

Eliassen Group seeks a Sr Platform Engineer I to join the Platform Engineering and DevOps team, enabling secure, scalable cloud adoption and efficient software delivery. This remote, full-time role focuses on platform reliability, automation, and self-service for developers.

Qualified candidates will have 3+ years in cloud/platform engineering, hands-on IaC, CI/CD, and observability, with experience in Azure IaaS/PaaS and secure cloud architectures.

Qualifications

• 3+ years in cloud platform engineering, software engineering, systems engineering, or DevOps with hands-on work across IaaS, PaaS, AI, and containers.
• Experience designing and implementing Infrastructure as Code, CI/CD pipelines, and automated platform provisioning with proficiency in at least one scripting or programming language.
• Experience contributing to DevOps or DevSecOps practices with cross-team collaboration.
• Ability to troubleshoot complex systems and improve platform reliability.
• Working knowledge of identity and access management and securing cloud platform resources.
• Experience implementing or supporting observability including logging, monitoring, and performance diagnostics.

Responsibilities

• Implement and contribute to the design of platform environments across cloud compute, storage, networking, and runtime layers leveraging Azure IaaS and PaaS.
• Deploy and operate containerized platform-native runtime services.
• Implement infrastructure provisioning using Infrastructure as Code.
• Develop, maintain, and enhance reusable platform components and automation frameworks based on platform patterns and standards.
• Implement security controls and policy enforcement per platform standards.
• Implement identity, access, and secrets management patterns.
• Enable compliance and governance through automated guardrails.
• Implement monitoring and logging solutions and support observability.
• Implement and support redundant, fault tolerant, and automated recovery mechanisms using zonal and multi-region patterns.
• Monitor platform performance and contribute to cost optimization.
• Enable consistent application deployment patterns and workflows.
• Support, build, and enhance developer tooling and CI/CD platform capabilities.
• Implement and maintain self-service templates and contribute to golden paths.
• Contribute to abstraction layers and APIs for infrastructure and platform services.
• Troubleshoot platform and infrastructure issues and perform root cause analysis.
• Collaborate with team members and share knowledge.
• Implement and support messaging, eventing, and API capabilities.
• Enable event-driven and asynchronous communication patterns across systems.
• Utilize and contribute to reusable integration patterns for application and platform services.

Skills

Cloud platforms

IaaS/PaaS

CI/CD pipelines

Automation

Observability

Education

Bachelor's Degree in CS/Engineering

Azure certifications

Tools

Azure

Terraform

Jenkins

Job description

Eliassen Group seeks a Sr Platform Engineer I to join the Platform Engineering and DevOps team, enabling secure, scalable cloud adoption and efficient software delivery. This remote, full-time role focuses on platform reliability, automation, and self-service for developers.

Qualified candidates will have 3+ years in cloud/platform engineering, hands-on IaC, CI/CD, and observability, with experience in Azure IaaS/PaaS and secure cloud architectures.